MED 121 CHAPS 1-5

  • -algia pain, suffering

  • -dynia pain

  • -ectomy surgical removal, cutting out

  • -gram picture or record

  • hyper- excessive, increased

  • hypo- deficient, decreased

  • -itis inflammation

  • -osis abnormal condition, disease

  • -ostomy the surgical creation of an artificial opening to the body surface

  • pre- before, in front of

  • -plasty surgical repair

  • -rrhage bleeding, abnormal excessive fluid discharge

  • -rrhaphy surgical suturing

  • -rrhea flow or discharge

  • -sclerosis abnormal hardening

  • aden/o gland

  • adip/o fat

  • anter/o before, front

  • caud/o lower part of body, tail

  • cephal/o head

  • cyt/o, -cyte cell

  • end-, endo- in, within, inside

  • exo- out of, outside, away from

  • hist/o tissue

  • -ologist specialist

  • -ology the science or study of

  • path/o, -pathy disease, suffering, feeling, emotion

  • plas/i, plas/o, -plasia development, growth, formation

  • poster/o behind, toward the back

  • -stasis/ -static control, maintenance of a constant level

  • ankyl/o crooked, bent, stiff

  • arthr/o joint

  • burs/o bursa

  • chondr/i, chondr/o cartilage

  • cost/o rib

  • crani/o skull

  • -desis to bind, tie together

  • kyph/o bent, hump

  • lord/o curve, swayback, bent

  • lumb/o lumbar, lower back

  • myel/o spinal cord, bone marrow

  • oss/e, oss/i, ost/o, oste/o bone

  • scoli/o curved, bent

  • spondyl/o vertebrae, vertebral column, backbone

  • synovi/o, synov/o synovial membrane, synovial fluid

  • bi- twice, double, two

  • clon/o violent action

  • dys- bad, difficult, or painful

  • fasci/o fascia, fibrous band

  • fibr/o fibrous tissue, fiber

  • -ia abnormal condition, disease, plural of -ium

  • -ic pertaining to

  • kines/o, kinesi/o movement

  • my/o muscle

  • -plegia paralysis, stroke

  • -rrhexis rupture

  • tax/o coordination, order

  • ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o tendon, stretch out, extend, strain

  • ton/o tone, stretching, tension

  • tri- three

  • angi/o blood or lymph vessels

  • aort/o aorta

  • arteri/o artery

  • ather/o plaque, fatty substance

  • brady- slow

  • capill/o capillary

  • cardi/o heart

  • end/o within

  • hem/o, hemat/o blood, relating to the blood

  • peri- surrounding

  • phleb/o vein

  • -sclerosis abnormal hardening

  • tachy- fast, rapid

  • thromb/o clot

  • ven/o vein

  • chromat/o color

  • coagul/o clotting, coagulation

  • -emia blood, blood condition

  • erythr/o red

  • fibrin/o fibrin, fibers, threads of a clot

  • -globin protein

  • leuk/o white

  • -oid resembling

  • -penia deficiency

  • plasma, plasm/o something molded or formed, plasma

  • -poiesis to make

  • -stasis maintenance of a constant level