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USF Medical Terminol
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acou-, Acu- | Hear |
| Amni | Fetal membrane, amniotic sac, amnion |
| Asc-, Ascit- | [Leather bag], bladder, sac, bag |
| Bary- | Heavy, full, hard |
| Cente- | Pierce |
| Chrom-, Chroma-, Chromat- | Color, pigment |
| Dips- | Thirst |
| Echo- | Reverberating sound, echo |
| Edema, Edemat- | Swelling |
| Eme- | Vomit |
| Gno(s)- | Know |
| Lal- | Talk |
| Lapar- | Abdomen, abdominal wall |
| Lex- | Read |
| Mne- | Remember |
| Ne- | New |
| No- | Mind, metal activity, comprehension |
| Orec-, Orex- | Have an appetite |
| Ox(y)- | Acute, pointed; rapid; acid; oxygen |
| Pha- | Speak, communicate |
| Phag- | Swallow, eat |
| Pharmac(eu)- | Medicine, drug |
| Phem- | Speech |
| Phob- | (abnormal) Fear |
| Phon | Voice, sound |
| Phrac-, Phrag- | Enclose, obstruct |
| Phras- | Speak |
| Phren- | Mind; diaphragm |
| Phylac- | Protection (against disease) |
| Phy(s) | Nature, appearance |
| Phyt- | Plant (organism), growth |
| Poie- | Produce, make |
| Sapr- | Rotten, putrid, decaying |
| Stear-, Steat- | Fat, sebum, sebaceous glands |
| Aut- | Self |
| Crin-??? | [Separate] ?????? , secrete, secretion |
| Esthe(s)- | Sensation, sensitive, sense |
| Gen(e)-, -Gen | Come into being; produce |
| Gram- | [Something written], a record |
| Graph- | Write, record |
| Iatr- | Healer, physician, treatment |
| Idi- | Of one's self |
| Kine- | Move |
| Kines(i)- | Movement, motion |
| Ly(s)- | Destroy, break down |
| Myx- | Mucus |
| Orth- | Straight, erect; normal |
| Ot- | Ear |
| Path- | [Suffering] Disease |
| Phil- | Love; have an affinity for |
| Pt- | Fall, sag, drop, prolaps |
| Pyr- | [Fire] fever, burning |
| Pyret- | Fever |
| Pyrex | Be Feverish |
| Rhe- | [Run] flow, secrete |
| Rhag- | [Burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage |
| Rhex- | Rupture |
| Rhin- | Nose |
| Scop- | Look at, examine |
| Sep- | [Be putrid] be infected |
| Ta- | Stretching |
| Tel- | End, completion |
| Ten-, Tenon(t)- | Tendon |
| Therap(eu)- | Treat medically, heal |
| Tom- | A cutting, slice, incision |
| Ton- | [A stretching] (muscular) tone, tension |
| -gen | Substance that produces (something) |
| -genesis | Formation, origin |
| -genic | Causing, producing, caused |
| -genous | By; produced by or in |
| -gram | a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray) |
| -graph | An instrument for recording the activity of an organ |
| -graphy | (1)The recoding of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination) (2)A descriptive treatise (on a subject) |
| -lysis | Dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration |
| -lytic | Pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis) |
| -pathy | Disease |
| -ptosis | Dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part) |
| -rrhagia | Profuse discharge, hemorrhage |
| -rrhea | Profuse discharge, excessive secretion |
| -rrhexis | Bursting (of tissues), rupture |
| -scope | An instrument for examining |
| -scopy | Examination |
| -tome | A surgical instrument for cutting |
| -tomy | Surgical incision |
| Is- | Equal, same, similar, alike |
| Mening-, -meninx | Meningeal membrane, meninges |
| My(s)- | [Mouse] muscle |
| Myc(et)- | [Mushroom] fungus |
| Myel- | Bone marrow, spinal cord |
| Narc- | stupor, numbness |
| Necr- | Corpse; dead |
| Olig- | Few, deficient |
| Onych- | Fingernail, toenail |
| Pod- | Foot |
| Poli- | [Gray] gray matter of the brain and the spinal cord |
| Poly- | many , excessive |
| Por- | Passage, opening, duct, pore, cavity |
| Psych- | [Soul] mind |
| Som(at)-, -soma | Body |
| Sthen- | Strength |
| Trachel- | Neck, cervix |
| Xanth- | Yellow |
| Archn- | Spider, web; arachnoid membrane |
| Chlor- | Green |
| Chondr- | Cartilage |
| Dactyl- | Finger, toe |
| Derm(at)-, -derma | Skin |
| (H)elc- | Ulcer |
| Hidr(ot)-, -idr | Sweat |
| Hist(i)- | [Web] tissue |
| Hypn- | Sleep |
| Icter- | Jaundice |
| In-, Inos- | Fiber, muscle |
| Acr- | [Highest point] extremities (particularly the hands and feet) |
| Ambly- | Dull, faint |
| Carcin- | [Crab] carcinoma, cancer |
| -cel- | Hernia, tumor, swelling |
| Cheir-, Chir- | Hand |
| Chol(e)- | bile, gall |
| Col(i)-, Colon- | Colon |
| Cyan- | Blue |
| Cyst(i)-, -cystis | Bladder, cyst |
| Diplo- | Double, twin |
| Enter- | (Small) intestine |
| Erg- | Action, work |
| Gastr- | Stomach |
| Hem-, Hemat-, -em- | Blood |
| Hepar-, Hepat- | Liver |
| Lip- | Fat |
| Macr- | (abnormally) large or long |
| Mega-, Megal- | (abnormally) large or long |
| Melan- | Dark, black |
| Micr- | (abnormally) small |
| Nyct- | Night |
| Odyn- | Pain |
| Onc- | Tumor |
| Pachy- | Thick |
| Pseud- | False |
| Py- | pus |
| Sarc- | Flesh, soft tissue |
| Spasm- | Spasm, involuntary muscular contractions |
| Splen- | Spleen |
| Stom-, Stomat- | Mouth Opening |
| Cata- | Downward, disordered |
| Dia- | Through, across, apart |
| Eso- | Within, inner, inward |
| Eu- | good, normal, healthy |
| Heter-, Herero- | Different, other, relationship to another |
| Homo-, Homeo- | Same, Likness |
| Meta- | Change, transformation, after, behind |
| Para- | Alongside, around |
| Pro- | Before |
| Pros-, Prosth | In place of |
| -al | Pertaining to, located in |
| -ase | Forms names of enzymes |
| -asia, -asis | Forms abstract nouns: state, condition |
| -ema | Forms abstract nouns: state. condition |
| -esis | Forms abstract nouns: state. condition, procedure??????? |
| -etic | Froms adjectives, often from nouns ending in in ??????? |
| -ics, -tics | Forms nouns indicating a particular science or study:science or study of |
| -ism | Forms abstract nouns: state, condition, quality |
| -ismus | Forms abstract nouns: state, condition; muscular spasm |
| -oid(rarely) -ode, -id | Form both nouns and adjectives indicating a particular shape, form, or resemblance:like, resembling |
| -oma, -omata | Forms abstract nouns: usually tumorl occasionally disease |
| -ose | Used to form names of chemicals substance: full of, resembling |
| -ous | Pertaining to the characterized by, full of |
| -us | Condition, person (sometimes a malformed fetus) |
| Amphi-, Ampho | On both sides, around, both |
| Ana- | Up, bac, against |
| Apo- | away from |
| -logy | Study, Science, the study of science of |
| -logist | One who specializes in a certain study or science |
| -malacia | The Softening (of tissues) |
| -sclerosis | The hardening (of tissues) |
| -stenosis | The narrowing (of a part of the body) |
| -toxic | Poisonous (to an organ) |
| -toxin | A substance poisonous to (a part of the body) |
| Lept- | Thin, fine, slight |
| Leuk- | White, white blood cell |
| Lith- | Stone, calculus |
| Log- | Word, study |
| Malac- | Soft |
| Mes- | Middle, secondary, partial, mesentery |
| -meter, Metr- | measure, measuring device |
| Nephr- | Kidney |
| Neur- | [Tendon] nerve, nervous system |
| Oste- | Bone |
| Phosop- | Face |
| Prot- | First, primitive, early |
| Scler- | Hard |
| Sten- | Narrow |
| Stere- | Solid, having three dimensions |
| Tachy- | Rapid |
| Tox(i)- | Posion |
| Acanth- | Thorn, spine |
| Alg- | Pain |
| Alges- | sensitivity to pain |
| All- | Other, divergence, difference form |
| Angi- | (Blood) vessel, duct |
| Arteri- | [Air passage] Artery |
| Arthr- | Joint |
| Bi- | Life |
| Brady- | Slow |
| Cardi- | Heart |
| Cephal- | Head |
| Crani- | Skull |
| Cyt- | [Hollow container] cell |
| Encephal- | Brain |
| Erythr- | Red, red blood cell |
| Peri- | Around, surrounding |
| Syn- | Together, with, joined |
| -a | Forms abstract nous: state, condition |
| -ac | Forms adjectives: pertaining to, located in |
| -ia | Forms abstract nouns; often the suffix -ia appears as a -y: state, condition |
| -iac | Forms nouns: person affliced with |
| -iasis | Forms Abstract nouns: disease, abnormal condition, abnormal presence of |
| -ic??? | Forms adjectives: pertaining to, located in ????? |
| -in, -ine | From names of substances |
| -ist | Forms nouns: a person interested in |
| -itic | Forms adjectives: pertaining to; pretending to inflammation |
| -itis | Forms nouns including and inflamed conditions: Inflammation |
| itides | Is the plural form of words ending in -itis |
| -ium (rarely -eum) | Forms nouns: membrane, connective tissue |
| -ma | Forms nouns: (often) abnormal or diseased condition. |
| -osis | Forms nouns: abnormal or diseased condition |
| -otic | Forms adjectives from nouns ending in -osis: pertaining to |
| -sia | Forms abstract nouns: state, condition |
| -sis | Forms abstract nouns:state, condition |
| -tic | Forms adjectives from nouns ending in -sis: pertaining to; words ending in -tic can be used as both adjectives and nouns and as nouns, often indicates a drug or agent |
| A-, An- | Not, without, lacking, deficient |
| Anti-, Ant- | Against, opposed to, preventing, relieving |
| Di- | Two, twice, double |
| Dsy- | Difficult, painful, defective, abnormal |
| Ec-, Ex- | Out of, away from |
| Ecto-, Ect- | Outside of |
| En-, Em- | In, into, whithin |
| Endo-, Ento-, End-, Ent- | Within |
| Epi-, Ep- | Upon, over above |
| Exo- | Outside, from the outside, toward the outside |
| Hemi- | Half, Partial; one side of the body |
| Hyper- | Over, above, excessive, beyond normal |
| Hypo-, Hyp- | Under, deficient, below normal |
| Mono-, mon- | one, single |
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