Word Part | Definition |
-er, -ist | one who |
-iatrician | practitioner |
-logist | one who studies; specialist |
-ac, -al, -ic, -logic, -logical | pertaining to(adj.) |
-iatrics, -iatry | medical profession or treatment |
-logy | study or science of |
cardi(o) | heart |
crin(o) | to secrete |
dermat(o) | skin |
esthi(o) | feeling or sensation |
gastr(o) | stomach |
enter(o) | intestines |
ger(a), ger(o), geront(o) | elderly |
gynec(o) | female |
immun(o) | immune |
ne(o), nat(o) | new, birth |
neur(o) | nerve |
obstertr(o) | midwife |
onc(o) | tumor |
ophthalm(o) | eye |
orth(o), ped(o) | straight, child somtimes food |
ot(o), Laryng(o) | ear, larynx |
path(o) | disease |
psych(o) | mind |
rheumat(o) | rheumatism |
radi(o) | radiant engery |
rhin(o) | nose |
ur(o) | urinary tract (sometimes urine) |
bi(o) | life or living |
dent(i), dent(o), odont(o) | tooth |
opt(o), optic(o) | vision |
or(o) | mouth |
pharmac(o) | drugs or medicine |
therapeut(o) | treatment |
an- | no, not, or without |
endo- | inside |
-crine | secrete |
-centesis | surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid |
-ectomy | excision(surgical removal or cutting out) |
-lysis | process of loosening, freeing or destroying |
-pexy | surgical fixation(fastening in a fixed position |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-rrhaphy | suture(uniting a would by stiches) |
-scope | instrument used for viewing (also used in diagnostic procedures) |
-stomy | formation of an opening |
-tome | an instrument used for cutting |
-tomy | incision (cutting into tissue) |
-tripsy | surgical crushing |
aden(o) | gland |
angi(o) | vessel |
append(o), appendic(o) | appendix |
blephar(o) | eyelid |
cerebr(o), encephal(o) | brain |
chir(o) | hand |
col(o), colon(o) | colon |
cutane(o), dermat(o) | skin |
mamm(o), mast(o) | breast |
nephr(o), ren(o) | kidney |
oste(o) | bone |
tonsill(o) | tonsil |
vas(o) | vessel; ductus deferens (also called vas deferens, excretory duct of the testicles |
-algia, -dynia | pain |
-ectasia, esctasis | dilation or streching of a structure or part |
-edema | swelling |
-emesis | vomiting |
-malacia | softening |
-megaly | enlargment |
-oid | resembling(forms N and A) |
-penia | deficiency |
-rrhage, -rrhagia | excessive bleeding or hemorrhage |
-rrhea | flow or discharge |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-spasm | twitching, cramp |
-stasis | stopping, controling |
-gram | a record |
-graph | an instrument used to record |
-graphy | the process of recording |
ech(o) | sound |
electr(o) | electricity |
fluor(o) | emittng or reflecting light |
radi(o) | radiant energy |
tom(o) | to cut |
ultra- | excessive |
cancer(o), carcin(o) | cancer |
-cele | hernia |
-emia | condition of the blood |
-ia-, iasis | condition |
-itis | inflammation |
-lith | stone or calculus |
-mania | excessive preoccupation |
-maniac | a person who shows excessive preoccupation |
-oma | tumor |
-osis | condition(often an abnormal condition; somtimes an increase) |
-pathy | disease |
-phobia | abnormal fear |
-ptosis | prolapse |
-able, -ible | capable of, able to (adj.) |
-an, -ary, -eal, -ive, -tic | pertaining to (adj.) |
-ase | enzyme |
-eum, -ium | membrane |
-ia, -ism | condition or theory |
-iac | one who suffers |
-opia | vision |
-ose | sugar |
-ous | pertaining to or characterized by (adj.) |
-y | state or condition |
cyt(o) | cell |
-cyte | cell |
gen(o) | begining origin |
-genic | produced by or in |
-genesis | producing or forming |
kinesi(o) | movement |
-kinesia, -kinesis | movement, motion |
leps(o) | seizure |
-lepsy | seizure |
log(o) | words |
lys(o) | destruction or dissolving |
-lysin | that which destroys |
-lyctic | capable of destroying |
megal(o) | large, enlarged |
metr(o) | measure; uterine tissue |
phag(o) | eat |
-phagia, -phagic, -phagy | eating, swallowing |
phas(o) | speech |
-phasia | speech |
plas(o) | formation, development |
-plasia | formation, development |
plast(o) | repair |
pleg(o) | paralysis |
-plegia | paralysis |
schis(o), schiz(o), schist(o), | split, cleft |
schisis | split, cleft |
scler(o) | hard |
-sclerosis | hardening |
scop(o) | examine, view |
troph(o) | nutrition |
-trophic, -trophy | nutrition |
alb(o), albin(o), leuk(o), leuc(o) | white |
chlor(o) | green |
cyan(o) | blue |
erythr(o) | red |
melan(o) | black |
xanth(o) | yellow |
algesi(o) | sensitivity to pain |
chem(o) | chemical |
narc(o) | stupor |
tox(o), toxic(o) | posion |
-therapy | treatment |