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med term basic
Combining Forms, Prefixes, Suffixes (chapter 1 & 2)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acanth(o) | spiny; thorny |
| actin(o) | light |
| aer(o) | air; gas |
| alge, algesi,algio, algo | pain |
| amyl (o) | starch |
| andro | masculine |
| athero | plaque;fatty substance |
| bacill(i) | bacilli; bacteria |
| bacteri(o) | bacteria |
| bar(o) | weight; pressure |
| bas(o), basi(o) | base |
| bio | life |
| blasto | immature cells |
| cac(o) | bad; ill |
| calc(o), calci(o) | calcium |
| carcin(o) | cancer |
| chem(o) | chemical |
| chlor(o) | chlorine; green |
| chlondrio;chondro | cartilage,grainygritty |
| chore(o) | dance |
| chrom,chromat,chromo | color |
| chrono | time |
| chyl(o) | chyle, a digestive juice |
| chym(o) | chyme, semifluidpresent duringdigestion |
| cine(o) | movement |
| coni(o) | dust |
| crin(o) | secrete |
| cry(o) | cold |
| crypt(o) | hidden; obsecure |
| cyan(o) | blue |
| cycl(o) | circle; cycle;ciliary body |
| cyst(o),cysti | bladder,cyst,cystic duct |
| cyt(o) | cell |
| dextr(o) | righttoward the right |
| dips(o) | thirst |
| dors(o), dorsi | back |
| dynamo | force; energy |
| echo | reflected sound |
| eosin(o) | red; rosey |
| ergo | work |
| erythro(o) | red, redness |
| esthesio | sensation, perception |
| ethmo | ethmoid bone |
| ectio | cause |
| fibr(o) | fiber |
| fluor(o) | light; luminous;fluorine |
| fungi | fungus |
| galact(o) | milk |
| gen(o) | producing; being born |
| gero, geront(o) | old age |
| gluco | glucose |
| glyco | sugars |
| gonio | angle |
| granulo | granular |
| gyn(o), gyne, gyneco | women |
| home(o), homo | same; constant |
| hydr(o) | hydrogen, water |
| hypn(o) | sleep |
| iatr(o) | physician; treatment |
| ichthy(o) | dry; scaly; fish |
| idio | disinct: unknown |
| immun(o) | safe; immune |
| kal(i) | potassium |
| karyo | nucleus |
| ket(o), keton(o) | ketone; acetone |
| kin(o), kine | movement |
| kinesi(o), kineso | motion |
| kyph(o) | humpback |
| lact(o), lacti | milk |
| latero | laternal, to one side |
| lepto | light, frail, thin |
| leuk(o) | white |
| lip(o) | fat |
| lith(o) | stone |
| log(o) | speech, words, thought |
| lys(o) | dissolution |
| macr(o) | large; long |
| medi(o) | middle; medial plane |
| meg(a), megal(o) | large; million |
| melan(o) | black; dark |
| mes(o) | middle; median |
| micr(o) | small; one-millionth;tiny |
| mio | smaller; less |
| morph(o) | structure; shape |
| narco | sleep; numbness |
| necr(o) | death; dying |
| noct(i) | night |
| normo | normal |
| nucle(o) | nucleus |
| nyct(o) | night |
| oncho, onco | tumor |
| orth(o) | straight; normal |
| oxy | sharp; acute; oxygen |
| pachy | thick |
| path(o) | disease |
| phag(o) | eating; devouring; swallowing |
| pharmaco | drugs; medicine |
| phon(o) | sound; voice; speech |
| phot(o) | light |
| physi,physio | physical; natural |
| physo | air; gas; growing |
| phyt(o) | plant |
| plasma, plasmo | formative; plasma |
| poikilo | varied; irregular |
| pseud(o) | false |
| pyo | pus |
| pyreto | fever |
| pyro | fever; fire; heat |
| radio | radiation; x-ray; radius |
| salping(o) | tube |
| schisto | split |
| schiz(o) | split; division |
| scler(o) | hardness; hardening |
| scolio | crooked; bent |
| scoto | darkness |
| sidero | iron |
| sito | food; grain |
| somat(o) | body |
| somn(o), somni | sleep |
| sono | sound |
| spasmo | spasm |
| spher(o) | round; spherical |
| spir(o) | breath; breathe |
| squamo | scale; squamous |
| staphyl(o) | grapelike clusters |
| steno | narrowness |
| stere(o) | three-dimensional |
| strepto | twisted chains; streptococci |
| styl(o) | peg-shaped |
| syring(o) | tube |
| tel(o), tele(o) | distant; end; complete |
| terato | monster (as a malformed fetus) |
| therm(o) | heat |
| tono | tension; pressure |
| top(o) | place; topical |
| tox(i), toxico, toxo | poison; toxin |
| tropho | food; nutrition |
| vivi | life |
| xanth(o) | yellow |
| xeno | stranger |
| xer(o) | dry |
| xiph(o) | sword; xiphoid |
| zo(o) | life |
| zym(o) | fermentation; enzyme |
| a, an- | without |
| ab, abs, de- | away from |
| ad- | toward, to |
| ambi- | both, around |
| ana- | up, toward |
| ante- | before |
| anti, contra- | against |
| apo- | derived, separate |
| aut(o)- | self |
| bi- | twice, double |
| brachy- | short |
| brady- | slow |
| cata- | down |
| circum- | around |
| co-,col-,com-,con-,cor- | together |
| di-,dif-,dir-,dis- | not, separated |
| dia- | through |
| dys- | abnormal; difficult |
| ect(o)- | outside |
| end(o), intra- | within |
| epi- | over |
| eu- | well, good, normal |
| ex- | out of, away from |
| exo- | external, on the outside |
| extra- | without, outside of |
| hemi- | half |
| hyper- | above normal; overly |
| hypo- | below normal |
| infra- | positioned beneath |
| inter- | between |
| iso- | equal, same |
| mal- | bad; inadequate |
| meg(a)-, megal(o)- | large |
| mes(o)- | meddle, medium |
| meta- | after |
| micr(o)- | small, microscope |
| mon(o)- | single |
| multi-, poly-, | many |
| olig(o)- | few; little; scanty |
| pan-, pant(o)- | all, entire |
| par(a)- | beside; abnormal;involving two parts |
| per- | through, intensely |
| peri- | around, about, near |
| pluri- | several, more |
| post- | after, following |
| pre- | before |
| pro- | before, forward |
| quadra-, quadri- | four |
| re- | again, backward |
| retro- | behind, backward |
| semi- | half |
| sub- | less than, under,inferior |
| super- | more than, above,superior |
| supra- | above, over |
| syl-,sym-,syn-,sys- | together |
| tachy- | fast |
| trans- | across, through |
| ultra- | beyond, excessive |
| un- | not |
| uni- | one |
| -ad | toward |
| -algia, -dynia | pain |
| -asthenia | weakness |
| -blast | immature, forming |
| -cele | hernia |
| -cidal, -cide | destroying, killing |
| -clasis, -clast | breaking |
| -crine | secreting |
| -crit | separate |
| -cyte | cell |
| -cytosis | condition of cells |
| -derma | skin |
| -desis | binding |
| -ectasis | expansion; dilating |
| -ectasia | expansion; dilating |
| -ectomy | removal of |
| -edema | swelling |
| -ema | condition |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -emia | blood |
| -emic | relating to blood |
| -esthesia | sensation |
| -form | in the shape of |
| -gen | producing;coming to be |
| -genesis | production of |
| -genic | producing |
| -globin, -globulin | protien |
| -gram | a recording |
| -graph | recording instrument |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -iasis | pathological conditionor state |
| -ic | pertaining to |
| -ics | treatment, practice,body of knowledge |
| -ism | condition, disease,doctrine |
| -itis(pl.-itides) | inflammation |
| -kinesia, kineisis | movement |
| -lepsy | condition of |
| -leptic | having seizures |
| -logist | one who practices |
| -logy | study, practice |
| -lysis | destruction of |
| -lytic | destroying |
| -malacia | softening |
| -mania | obession |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -meter | measuring device |
| -metry | measurement |
| -oid | like, resembling |
| -oma (pl.-omata) | tumor, neoplasm |
| -opia, opsia | vision |
| -opsy | view of |
| -osis (pl. -oses) | condition, state,process |
| -ostomy | opening |
| -oxia | oxygen |
| -para | bearing |
| -parous | producing; bearing |
| -paresis | slight paralysis |
| -pathy | disease |
| -penia | dificiency |
| -pexy | fixation, usuallydone surgically |
| -pepsia | digestiion |
| -phage, -phagia, -phagy | eating, devouring |
| -phasia | speaking |
| -pheresis | removal |
| -phil, -philia | attractioin; affinity for |
| -phobia | fear |
| -phonia | sound |
| -phoresis | carrying |
| -phoria | feeling; carrying |
| -phrenia | of the mind |
| -phthisis | wasting away |
| -phylaxis | protection |
| -physis | growing |
| -plakia | plaque |
| -plasia, -plasm, -poiesis | formation |
| -plastic, -poietic | forming |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -plegic | one who is paralyzed |
| -pnea | breath |
| -poietin | one that forms |
| -porosis | lessening in density |
| -ptosis | falling down; drooping |
| -rrhage | discharging heavily |
| -rrhagia | heavy discharge |
| -rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
| -rrhea | a flowing, a flux |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -schisis | splitting |
| -scope | instrument for observing |
| -scopy | use of an insrumentfor observing |
| -somnia | sleep |
| -spasm, -stalsis | contraction |
| -stasis | stopping; constant |
| -stat | agent to maintaina state |
| -static | maintaining a state |
| -stenosis | narrowing |
| -stomy | opening |
| -tome | cutting instrument,segment |
| -tomy | cutting operation |
| -trophic | nutritional |
| -trophy | nutrition |
| -tropia, -version | turning |
| -tropic | turning toward |
| -tropy | condition of turningtoward |
| -uria | urine |
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