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Medical Terminology
Medical Terminology Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Angi/o | Blood or vessel |
| Arthr/o | Joint |
| Blephar/o | Eyelid |
| Cephal/o | Head |
| Chrom/o | Color |
| Cry/o | Cold |
| Crypt/o | Hidden |
| Cyan/o | Blue |
| Enter/o | Small Intestine, Intestine |
| Erythr/o | Red |
| Hyster/o | Uterus |
| Lip/o | Fat |
| Lith/o | Stone |
| Mast/o | Breast |
| Melan/o | Black |
| My/o | Muscle |
| Necr/o | Death |
| Or/o | Mouth |
| Path/o | Disease |
| Phelb/o | Vein |
| Phot/o | Light |
| Scoli/o | Curved |
| Somat/o | Body |
| Therm/o | Heat |
| Ad- | Toward |
| An- | Without, Away |
| Ante- | Before |
| Brady- | Slow |
| Dys- | Difficult |
| Endo- | Within |
| Epi- | Upon |
| Hemi- | One-half |
| Hyper- | Above, excessive |
| Hypo- | Below |
| Inter- | Between |
| Intra- | Within |
| Micro- | Small |
| Pan- | All, in total |
| Para- | Abnormal, near, beside, beyond, around |
| Peri- | Surrounding |
| Poly- | Many |
| Sub- | Below |
| Supra- | Above |
| Syn- | Together, joined |
| Tachy- | Rapid, fast |
| Trans- | Beyond, across |
| -al | Pertaining to |
| -algia | Pain |
| -cele | Purtusion, hernia |
| -ectomy | Removal |
| -emia | Blood condition |
| -genesis | Origin of cause |
| -graphy | Record, graph |
| -lysis | Dissolving, seperating |
| -malacia | Softening |
| -metry | Measurement |
| -oid | Resembling |
| -pathy | Disease |
| -plasm | Growth or formation |
| -plasty | Surgical repair |
| -rraphy | Suture, repairing |
| -rrhexis | Rupture |
| -stasis | Still, standing |
| -tomy | Cutting into |