Question | Answer |
-megaly | enlargement |
somo(o),somni | sleep |
macr(o) | large; long |
mega(o), megal(o) | large; million |
melan(o) | black; dark |
mes(o) | middle; median |
ichthy(o) | dry; scaly; fish |
iatr(o) | physician; treatment |
hypo- | below normal |
hyper- | above normal; overly |
hypn(o) | sleep |
andro | masculine |
micr(o) | small; one-millionth; tiny |
morph(o) | structure; shape |
-malacia | softening |
narco | sleep; numbness |
necr(o) | death; dying |
noct(i) | night |
nucle(o) | nucleus |
orth(o) | straight; normal |
pachy | thick |
pharmaco | drugs; medicine |
hydr(o) | hydrogen, water |
phago | eating; devouring; swallowing |
path(o) | disease |
-emia | blood |
normo | normal |
xanth(o) | yellow |
tropho | food; nutrition |
sono | sound |
oxy | sharp; acute; oxygen |
micr(o)- | small, microscopic |
mes(o)- | middle, median |
meg(a)-, megal(o)- | large |
mal- | bad; inadequate |
cyan(o) | blue |
contra- | against |
co-, col-, com-, con-, cor- | together |
circum- | around |
chyl(o) | chyle, a digestive juice |
latero | lateral, to one side |
lact(o), lacti | milk |
kinesi(o), kineso | motion |
ket(o), keton(o) | ketone; acetone |
immun(o) | safe, immune |
eu- | well, good, normal |
ergo | work |
oxy | sharp; acute; oxygen |
micr(o)- | small, microscopic |
mes(o)- | middle, median |
meg(a)-, megal(o)- | large |
mal- | bad; inadequate |
cyan(o) | blue |
contra- | against |
co-, col-, com-, con-, cor- | together |
circum- | around |
chyl(o) | chyle, a digestive juice |
latero | lateral, to one side |
lact(o), lacti | milk |
kinesi(o), kineso | motion |
ket(o), keton(o) | ketone; acetone |
immun(o) | safe, immune |
eu- | well, good, normal |
ergo | work |
elctr(o) | electricity; electric |
ect(o)- | outside |
echo | reflected sound |
dors(o), dorsi | back |
dys- | abnormal; difficult |
ambi- | both, around |
ana- | up, toward |
an- | without |
cycl(o) | circle; cycle; ciliary body |
inter- | between |
scler(o) | hardness; hardening |
scolio | crooked; bent |
calc(o), calci(o) | calcium |
lith(o) | stone |
lip(o) | fat |
-pathy | disease |
cyst(o), cysti | bladder, cyst, cystic duct |
fibr(o) | fiber |
gyn(o), gyne, gyneco | women |
fluor(o) | light; luminous; flourine |
fungi | fungus |
hemi- | helf |
galact(o) | milk |
gero(o), geronto(o) | old age |
gluco | glucose |
granulo | granular |
calc(o), calci(o) | calcium |
lith(o) | stone |
lip(o) | fat |
-pathy | disease |
cyst(o), cysti | bladder, cyst, cystic duct |
fibr(o) | fiber |
gyn(o), gyne, gyneco | women |
fluor(o) | light; luminous; flourine |
fungi | fungus |
hemi- | helf |
galact(o) | milk |
gero(o), geronto(o) | old age |
gluco | glucose |
granulo | granular |
-blast | immature, forming |
extra- | without, outside of |
cata- | down |
schiz(o) | split; division |
athero | plaque; fatty substance |
super- | more than. above, superior |
bi- | twice, double |
ante- | before |
exo- | external, on the outside |
somat(o) | body |
anti- | against |
carcin(o) | cancer |
brachy- | short |
-derma | skin |
-dynia | pain |
brady- | slow |
phon(o) | sound; voice; speech |
pseud(o) | false |
-phrenia | of the mind |
pyo | pus |
pyro | fever; fire; heat |
-oma (pl.-omata) | tumor, neoplasm |
dips(o) | thrist |
bas(o), basi(0) | base |
-somnia | sleep |
schisto | split |
spiro(o) | breath; breathe |
pluri | several; more |
-stomy | opening |
-stenosis | narrowing |
-tropic | turning toward |
-uria | urine |
-tomy | cutting operation |
-phage, -phagia, -phagy | eating, devouring |
-phonia | sound |
-phasia | speaking |
-phobia | fear of |
-clasis | breaking |
-clast | instrument |
kyph(o) | humpback |
kin(o), kine | movement |
ethmo | ethmoid bone |
epi- | over |
esthesio | sensation; perception |
eosin(o) | red; rosy |
top | place; topicial |
tox(i), toxico, toxo | poision; toxin |
-oxia | oxygen |
acanth(o) | spiny; thorny |
peri | around, about near |
multi- | many |
a | without |
actin(o) | light |
therm(o) | heat |
aer(o) | air; gas |
bacill(i) | bacteria |
bacteri(o) | bacteria |
bar(o) | weight; pressure |
-pnea | breath |
bio | life |
blasto | immature cells |
chem(o) | chemical |
chore(o) | dance |
chym(o) | chyme, semifluid present during digestion |
cry(o) | cold |
crypt(o) | hidden; obscure |
uni- | one |
alge, algesi, algio, algo | pain |
pre- | before |
retro- | behind, backward |
semi- | half |
quadra-, quardri | four |
post | after, following |
pro- | before, forward |
un | not |
trans- | across, through |
leuko(o) | white |
chrono | time |
squamo | scale |
-edma | swelling |
nyct(o) | night |
chrom, chromat, chromo | color |
media(o) | middle; medial plane |
-cidal | destroying, killing |
-cide | destroying, killing |
syring(o) | tube |
cyt(o) | cell |
terato | monstor(as a malformed fetus) |
pyreto | fever |
radio | radiation; x-ray; radius |
salping(o) | tube |
mio | smaller; less |
-mania | obsession |
spasmo | spasm |
chlor(o) | cholorine, green |
-ectomy | removal of |
-cyte | cell |
spher(o) | round; spherical |
plasma, plasmo | formative plasma |
ad- | toward, to |
-metry | measurement |
-logist | one who practices |
-gloubulin | protein |
-graph | recording |
-esthesia | sensation |
-genic | producing |
-ema | condition |
-gen | producing, coming to be |
-plastic | forming |
-poietin | one that forms |
-plegic | one who is paralyzed |
-plasm | formation |
-poiesis | formation |
-plegia | paralysis |
re- | again, backward |
poly- | many |
styl-(o) | peg-shaped |
sub | less than, under inferior |
ultra- | beyond, excessive |
tachy- | fast |
syl-, sym-, syn-, sys- | together |
supra- | above, over |
coni(o) | dust |
log(o) | speech, words, thought |
chlondrio, chondro | Cartilage, grainy, gritty |
cac(o) | bad; ill |
amyl(o) | starch |
pan-, pant(o)- | all, entire |
dynamo | force; energy |
zym(o) | fermentation, enzyme |
iso- | equal; same |
intra- | within |
scoto | darkness |
idio | distinct; unknown |
gonio | angle |
glyco | sugars |
oncho, onco | tumor |
phot(o) | light |
physo | air; gas; growing |
phyt(o) | plant |
poikilo | varied; irregular |
erythro(o) | red, redness |
etio | cause |
ex- | out of, away from |
-phil | attraction; affinity for |
-philia | attraction; affinity for |
-pheresis | removal |
-static | maintaining a state |
per- | through, intensely |
mon(o)- | single |
par(a)- | beside; abnormal; involving two parts |
tono | tension; pressure |
tel(o) tele(o) | distant; end; complete |
strepto | twisted chains; streptococci |
steno | narrowness |
-stalsis | contraction |
-stat | agent to maintain a state |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-porosis | lessening in density |
-poietic | forming |
-scopy | use of an instrument for observing |
-lepsy | condition of |
-ism | condition, disease doctrine |
-ic | pertaining to |
-ics | treatment, practice, body of knowledge |
-tropy | condition of turning toward |
-lyctic | destroying |
-crit | separate |
-cytosis | condition of the cells |
-emesis | vomiting |
-desis | binding |
-ecstasia | expansion; dilation |
-phoresis | carrying |
-physis | growing |
-phthisis | wasting away |
-plasia | formation |
-parous | producing; bearing |
-penia | deficiency |
de- | away from |
dextro(o) | right, toward the right |
dia | through |
di-, dif-, dir-, dis- | not, separated |
infra- | positioned beneath |
karyo | nucleus |
lepto | light, frail, thin |
sito | food; grain |
sidero | iron |
apo- | derived, separate |
kal(i) | potassium |
ab-, abs- | away from |
cine(o) | movement |
lys(o) | dissolution |
meta- | after |
-tome | cutting instrument, segment |
-pexy | fixation, usually done surgically |
-cele | hernia |
-asthenia | weakness |
end(o)- | within |
crin(o) | secrete |
zo(o) | life |
xiph | sword xiphoid, |
xer(o) | dry |
xeno | stranger |
vivi | life |
aut(o)- | self |
home(o), homo | same; constant |
gen(o) | producing; being born |
-rrhagia | heavy discharge |
-spasm | contraction |
-trophy | nutrition |
-trophic | nutritional |
-tropia | turing |
-version | turing |
staphyl(o) | grapelike clusters |
stero(o) | three-dimensional |
olig(o) | few; little; scanty |
itit (pl. -itides) | inflammation |
-kinesis | movement |
-paresis | slight paralysis |
-para | bearing |
-ostomy | opening |
-pepsia | digestion |
-phoria | feeling; carrying |
-phylaxis | protection |
-plakia | plaque |
-form | in the shape of |
-graphy | process of recording |
-gram | a recording |
-emic | relating to blood |
-globin | protein |
-genesis | production of |
-opia | vision |
-opsy | view of |
-oid | like, resembling |
-logy | study, practice |
-meter | measuring device |
-leptic | having seizures |
-opsia | vison |
-lysis | destruction of |
-iasis | pathological condition or state |
-kinesia | movent |
-rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
-rrhage | discharging heavily |
-schisis | splitting |
-scope | instrument for observing |
-crine | secreting |
-plasty | surgial repair |
-stasis | stopping; constant |
-rrhea | a flowing, a flux |
-ptosis | falling down; drooping |
-osis | condition, state, process |