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LM - Chapter 1 A

Combining Forms, Suffixes, Prefixes

Question	Answer
aden/o	gland
arthr/o	joint
bio/o	life
carcin/o	cancer
cardi/o	heart
cephal/o	cerebrum
cis/o	to cut
crin/o	secrete (to form and give off)
cyst/o	bladder
derm/o or dermat/o	skin
elect/o	electricity
encephal/o	brain
enter/o	intestines (usually small)
erythr/o	red
gastr/o	stomach
gnos/o	knowledge
gynec/o	woman/female
hemat/o or hem/o	blood
hepat/o	liver
iatr/o	treatment
leuko/o	white
nephr/o	kidney
neur/o	nerve
onc/o	tumor
opthalm/o	eye
oste/o	bone
path/o	disease
ped/o	child
psych/o	mind
radi/o	x-rays
ren/o	kidney
rhin/o	nose
sacr/o	flesh
sect/o	to cut
thromb/o	clot, clotting
ur/o	urinary tract, urine
-ac	pertaining to
-al	pertaining to
-algia	pain
-cyte	cell
-ectomy	exision, removal
-emia	blood condition
-genic	pertaining to producing
-gram	record
-ic, -ical	pertaining to
-ion	process
-ist	specialist
-logy	study of
-oma	tumor, mass, swelling
-opsy	process of viewing
-osis	abnormal condition
-pathy	disease condition
-scope	instrument to visually examine
-scopy	process of visually examining
-sis	state of
-tomy	process of cutting
-y	process, condition
-um	structure
a-, an-	no, not without
auto-	self
dia-	through, complete
endo-	within
epi-	above
ex-	cut
exo-	out
hyper-	excessive, above, more then normal
hypo-	deficient, below, under, less then normal
in-	into, in
peri-	surrounding, above
pro-	before, forward
re-	back, backward, again
retro-	behind
sub-	below, under
trans-	across, through
hemi-	half

Created by: marykay135 on 2005-04-22

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LM - Chapter 1 A

Combining Forms, Suffixes, Prefixes