Medical Spelling

gnos/o - knowledge

iatr/o - treatment, physician

ophthalm/o- eye

sect/o- to cut

coccyg/o- coccyx

kary/o- nucleus

thel/o- nipple

umbilic/o- umbilical cord (one l)

cheil/o- lip

gloss/o- tongue

steat/o- fat

acanth/o- spiny and thorny

acetabul/o- acetabulum 

acu/o- sharp and severe and sudden (acuate and acupuncture)

-acusis- hearing

agglutin/o- clumping, sticking together

-agon- assemble, gather

agora- marketplace

-agra- excessive pain

alb/o or albin/o- white

alges/o- sensitivity to pain (-algesia)

-pepsia- digestion

-ptysis- spitting

-ectasis, -estasia- widening or dilation

-tresia- opening

ambly/o- dim, dull

amyl/o- starch

anis/o- unequal

anthrac/o- black (as coal)

anthr/o- antrum of stomach

-apheresis- removal, carrying away

aphth/o- ulcer

-arche- beginning (menarche)

-arthria- articulate

-asthenia- lack of strength (myasthenia gravis)

atel/o- incomplete

ather/o- yellowish plaque

azot/o- urea, nitrogen

balan/o- glans penis

bartholin/o- bartholin glands

bil/i- bile, gall

bilirubin/o- bilirubin

bol/o- cast, throw

byssin/o-cotton dust

cac- bad

cal/i- calyx, cup-shaped

celi/o- belly, abdomen

-chalasia, -chalasis- relaxation

-chezia- defecation

chir/o-hand

chlorhydr/o- hydrochloric acid

choledoch/o- common bile duct

chor/e- dance

chor/i or chorion/o- chorion

chym/o- to pour

cib/o- meal (cibophobia)

cine/o- movement

cirrh/o- orange-yellow

cis/o- cut

-clasis- to break

-clysis- irrigation, washing (paraclysis)

coll/a- glue

comat/o- deep sleep

comi/o- to care for

con/i- dust

core/o- pupil

corpor/o- body

cortic/o- cortex

cras/o- mixture temperament

culd/o- cul-de-sac

-cusis- hearing

dactyl/o- fingers, toes

dacryocyst/o- tear sac, lacrimal sac

dessic/o- drying

diaphor/o- sweating

dips/o- thirsty

dur/o - dura mater

-elasma- flat plate

emmetr/o- in due measure, correct, proper

epididym/o- epididymis

episi/o- vulva

erg/o- work

-ferent- to carry

-fida- split

ethm/o- sieve

exanthemat/o- rash

furc/o- forking, branching

galact/o- milk

gester/o- pregnancy

goni/o- angle

hidr/o- sweat

-hexia- state of 

hypophys/o- pituitary gland

ichthy/o- dry, scaly, fish-like

-itus- condition

isch/o- back

kal/i- potassium

leiomy/o- smooth visceral muscle

lept/o- thin

lex/o- word, phrase

lute/o- yellow