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medical flash cards
prefix,sufix,combining
| 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 |
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