Word | Definition |
aden/o | gland |
arthr/o | joint |
bi/o | life |
carcin/o | cancerous, cancer |
cardi/o | heart |
cephal/o | head |
cerebr/o | cerebrom (largest part of the brain) |
cis/o | to cut |
crin/o | to secrete (to form and give off) |
cyst/o | urinary bladder, a sac or a cyst (sac containting fluid) |
cyt/o | cell |
derm/o | skin |
dermat/o | skin |
electr/o | electricity |
encephal/o | brain |
enter/o | intestines (mostly small intestine) |
erythr/o | red |
gastr/o | stomach |
gnas/o | knowledge |
gynec/o | woman/female |
hemat/o | blood |
hem/o | blood |
hepat/o | liver |
iatr/o | treatment, physician |
leuk/o | white |
nephr/o | kidney |
neur/o | nerve |
onc/o | tumor |
ophthalm/o | eye |
oste/o | bone |
path/o | disease |
ped/o | child |
psych/o | mind |
radi/o | x-rays |
ren/o | kidney |
rhin/o | nose |
sarc/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 | excision, removal |
-emia | blood condition |
-genic | pertaining to producing, produced by, produced in |
-globin | protein |
-gram | record |
-ic | pertaining to |
-ical | pertaining to |
-ion | process |
-ist | specialist |
-itis | inflamtion |
-logy | process of study |
-oma | tumor, mass, swelling |
-opsy | process of viewing |
-osis | condition that is usually abnornal slight increase in numbes when used with blood cells |
-pathy | disease condition |
-scope | instrument used to visually examine |
-scopy | process of visually examining ith a endoscope |
-sis | state of condition |
-tomy | proces of cutting incision |
-y | process condition |
a- | no, not, without |
an- | no, not, without |
aut- | self, own |
auto- | self, own |
dia- | through, complete |
end- | within |
endo- | without |
epi- | above, upon |
ex- | out |
exo- | outside of, outward |
hyper- | excessive, above, more than normal |
hypo- | deficient, below, under, less than normal |
in- | into, in |
peri- | surrounding, around |
pro- | before, forward |
re- | back, backward,ain |
retro- | behind |
sub- | below, under |
trans- | across, through |
-algia | pain |
-cele | hernia |
-centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid |
-conccus | berry-shaped bacterium |
-cyte | cell |
-dynia | pain |
-ectomy | excision,removal,resection |
-emia | blood condition |
-genesis | condition of producing, forming |
-gram | record |
-graph | instrumant for recording |
-graphy | process of recording |
-itis | inflammation |
-logy | study of |
-lysis | breakdown, destruction, separation |
-malacia | softening |
-megaly | enlargement |
-oma | tumor, mass, collection of fluid |
-opsy | to view |
-osis | condition, usually abnorma |