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Medical Terms
Chaffey College Medical Terminology Course
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Added at the end of a word to change the meaning of the word or to create a new word | Suffix |
| Made up of more than one word component, though it is treated as a single word part | Compound suffix |
| What is the order in which to define terms | Suffix comes first, then the prefix and then the root or combining form comes last |
| -algesia | suffix, condition of pain |
| -ase | suffix, enzyme |
| -ate | suffix, use or action |
| -blast | suffix, immature cell, germ cell |
| -cide | suffix, to kill |
| -crit | suffix, to seperate |
| -cuspid | suffix, point |
| -cyst | suffix, bladder or sac |
| -cyte | suffix, cell |
| -drome | suffix, that which runs together |
| -gen | suffix, formation or produce |
| -gensis | suffix, formation or produce |
| -ive | suffix, nature or or quality of |
| -liter | suffix, liter |
| -logy | suffix, study of |
| -lymph | suffix, clear fluid or serum or pale fluid |
| -or | suffix, one who or a doer |
| -phil | suffix, attraction |
| -stasis | suffix, control or stop or stand still |
| -therapy | suffix, treatment |
| -thermy | suffix, heat |
| -um | suffix, tissue or structure |
| -uria | suffix, urination or condition of urine |
| -ac | suffix, pertaining to |
| -al | suffix, pertaining to |
| -ar | suffix, pertaining to |
| -ary | suffix, pertaining to |
| -ic | suffix, pertaining to |
| -ile | suffix, pertaining to |
| -ior | suffix, pertaining to |
| -ose | suffix, pertaining to |
| -ous | suffix, pertaining to |
| -tic | suffix, pertaining to |
| -us | suffix, pertaining to |
| -y | suffix, pertaining to or condition |
| -esis | suffix, condition |
| -ia | suffix, condition |
| -iatry | suffix, treatment |
| -ician | suffix, specialist |
| -ism | suffix, condition |
| -ist | suffix, specialist |
| -osis | suffix, condition |
| -icle | suffix, small or minute |
| -ole | suffix, small or minute |
| -ula | suffix, small or minute |
| -ule | suffix, small or minute |
| -algia | suffix, pain or ache |
| -asthenia | suffix, weakness |
| -betes | suffix, to go |
| -cele | suffix, hemia or tumor swelling |
| -cusis | suffix, hearing |
| -derma | suffix, skin |
| -dynia | suffix, pain or ache |
| -estasis | suffix, dilation or distention |
| -edema | suffix, swelling |
| -emesis | suffix, vomiting |
| -ion | suffix, process |
| -itis | suffix, inflammation |
| -kinesis | suffix, motion |
| -lepsy | suffix, seizure |
| -lexia | suffix, diction or word or phrase |
| -malacia | suffix, softening |
| -mania | suffix, madness |
| -megaly | suffix, enlargement or large |
| -mnesia | suffix, memory |
| -noia | suffix, mind |
| -oid | suffix, resemble |
| -oma | suffix, tumor |
| -opia | suffix, sight or vision |
| -oxia | suffix, oxygen |
| -pathy | suffix, disease or emotion |
| -penia | suffix, deficiency |
| -pepsia | suffix, to digest |
| -phagia | suffix, to eat or to swallow |
| -phasia | suffix, to speak or speech |
| -phobia | suffix, fear |
| -plasia | suffix, formation or produce |
| -plasm | suffix, a thing formed or plasma |
| -plegia | suffix, paralysis or stroke |
| -pnea | suffix, breathing |
| -ptosis | suffix, drooping or prolapse or sagging |
| -ptysis | suffix, spitting or coughing up |
| -rrhage | suffix, bursting forth |
| -rrhea | suffix, flow or discharge |
| -rrhexis | suffix, rupture |
| -spasm | suffix, tension or spasm or contraction |
| -trophy | suffix, nourishment or development |
| -centesis | suffix, surgical puncture |
| -clasis | suffix, a break |
| -desis | suffix, binding |
| -ectomy | suffix, surgical excision or surgical removal or resection |
| -gram | suffix, a weight or mark or record |
| -graph | suffix, instrument for recording |
| -graphy | suffix, recording |
| -ize | suffix, to make or to treat or combine with |
| -lysis | suffix, destruction or separation or breakdown or loosening |
| -meter | suffix, instrument or to measure or measure |
| -metry | suffix, measurement |
| -opsy | suffix, to view |
| -pexy | suffix, surgical fixation |
| -pheresis | suffix, remove |
| -plasty | suffix, surgical repair |
| -rrhaphy | suffix, suture |
| -scope | suffix, instrument for examining |
| -scopy | suffix, visual examination or to view or examine |
| -stomy | suffix, new opening |
| -tome | suffix, instrument to cut |
| -tripsy | suffix, crushing |
| Added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning of the word or to create a new word | Prefix |
| a- or an- | prefix, no or without or lack of |
| anti- or contra- | prefix, against |
| auto- | prefix, self |
| brachy- | prefix, short |
| brady- | prefix, slow |
| cac- or mal- | prefix, bad |
| dia- | prefix, through or between |
| dys- | prefix, bad or difficult or painful or abnormal |
| eu- | prefix, good or normal |
| ex- or exo- | prefix, out or away from |
| hetero- | prefix, different |
| homeo- | prefix, similar or same |
| hydro- | prefix, water |
| micro- | prefix, small |
| oligo- | prefix, scanty or little |
| pan- | prefix, all |
| pseudo- | prefix, false |
| sym- or syn- | prefix, together or with |
| ad- | prefix, toward or near |
| bi- | prefix, two or double |
| de- | prefix, down or away from |
| dif- or dis- | prefix, apart or free from |
| ec- or ecto- | prefix, out or outside |
| end- or endo- | prefix, within or inner |
| ep- or epi- | prefix, upon or over |
| hyper- | prefix, above or beyond |
| mega- | prefix, large or great |
| meta- | prefix, beyond or over |
| para- | prefix, beside or alongisde |
| poly- | prefix, many or much |
| post- | prefix, after or behind |
| pre- or pro- | prefix, before or in font of |
| super- | prefix, upper or above |
| supra- | prefix, above or beyond |
| ab- | prefix, away from |
| ana- | prefix, up or apart |
| ante- | prefix, before or forward |
| cata- | prefix, down |
| circum- or peri- | prefix, around |
| endo- | prefix, within or inner |
| epi- | prefix, upon or above |
| extra- | prefix, outside or beyond |
| hypo- | prefix, below or under |
| inter- | prefix, between |
| meso- | prefix, middle |
| retro- | prefix, backward |
| sub- | prefix, below or under |
| ambi- | prefix, both |
| bin- | prefix, two or double |
| centi- | prefix, one hundreth |
| deca- | prefix, ten |
| milli- | prefix, one thousandth |
| mono- | prefix, one |
| multi- | prefix, many or much |
| nulli- | prefix, none |
| poly- | prefix, many |
| primi- | prefix, first |
| quadri- | prefix, four |
| semi- or hemi- | prefix, half |
| tri- | prefix, three |
| uni- | prefix, one |
| A process of scraping away from a surface | Abrasion |
| To induce a loss of feeling or sensation with the administration of an anesthetic agent | Anesthetize |
| Unequal in size or shape | Asymmetrical |
| Pertaining to two sides | Bilateral |
| Resembles a female | Gynecoid |
| Nature of quality | Hyperactive |
| Underdevelopment of a tissue, organ or body | Hypoplasia |
| A process whereby a disease-producing microorganism invades the body | Infection |
| The condition of being unable to sleep | Insomnia |
| Pertaining to within a vein | Intravenous |
| Lying hidden, quiet, not active | Intravenous |
| Space within an artery vein, intestine or tube | Lumen |
| To use the hands or fingers to examine by touch | Palpate |
| Wide open or freely open | Patent |
| Pertaining to the pericardium | Pericardial |
| A condition in which there is more than normal number of fingers and toes | Polydactyly |
| Pertaining to before the discharge of menses | Premenstrual |
| Any one of a large group of substances that are chemically related to sterols | Steroid |
| Infection following a previous infection produced by an overgrowth of resistant bacteria | Superinfection |
| Physical injury caused by an external force | Trauma |
| Expected resiliency of the skin caused by outward pressure of the cells and interstitial fluid | Turgor |
| Abnormal state in which a person is unaware of his or her environment | Unconscious |
| act/o | combining form, acting or act |
| cardi/o | combining form, heart |
| dactyl/o | combining form, fingers or toes |
| gynec/o | combining form, female |
| later/o | combining form, side |
| somn/o | combining form, sleep |
| ven/o | combining form, vein |
| comat | word root, a deep sleep |
| consci | word root, aware |
| esthet | word root, feeling or sensation |
| infect | word root, to infect |
| menstru | word root, to discharge the menses |
| palp | word root, touch |
| ras | word root, to scrape off |
| ster | word root, solid |
| symmetric | word root, symmetry |
| turg | word root, swelling |
| bi/o | combining form, life |
| chem/o | combining form, chemical |
| cis/o | combining form, to cut |
| eti/o | combining form, cause |
| kil/o | combining form, a thousand |
| macr/o | combining form, large |
| malign/o | combining form, bad kind |
| necr/o | combining form, death |
| organ/o | combining form, organ |
| onc/o | combining form, tumor |
| path/o | combining form, disease |
| pyr/o | combining form, heat or fire |
| radi/o | combining form, ray or x-ray |
| therm/o | combining form, hot or heat |
| adhes | word root, stuck to |
| axill | word root, armpit |
| dem | word root, people |
| format | word root, shaping |
| gen, gene | word root, formation or produce |
| infect | word root, to infect |
| maxim | word root, greatest |
| minim | word root, least |
| morbid | word root, sick |
| mortal | word root, human being |
| norm | word root, rule |
| palm | word root, palm |
| prophylact | word root, guarding |
| pyret | word root, fever |
| scop | word root, to examine |
| sept | word root, putrefaction |
| tuss | word root, cough |
| adip/o | combining form, fat |
| andr/o | combining form, man |
| anter/o | combining form, toward the front |
| bi/o | combining form, life |
| caud/o | combining form, tall |
| cyt/o | combining form, cell |
| dist/o | combining form, backward |
| filtrat/o | combining form, to strain through |
| fus/o | combining form, to pour |
| hist/o | combining form, tissue |
| hydr/o | combining form, water |
| infer/o | combining form, below |
| inguin/o | combining form, groin |
| kary/o | combining form, cell's nucleaus |
| later/o | combining form, side |
| medi/o | combining form, toward the middle |
| organ/o | combining form, organ |
| path/o | combining form, disease |
| physi/o | combining form, nature |
| phen/o | combining form, to show |
| poster/o | combining form, behind |
| proxim/o | combining form, near the point of region |
| somat/o | combining form, body |
| system/o | combining form, composite or whole |
| troph/o | combining form, nourishment or development |
| ventr/o | combining form, near or on the belly side of the body |
| viscer/o | combining form, body organs |
| horizont | word root, horizon |
| intern | word root, within |
| topic | word root, place |
| acr/o | combining form, extremity |
| aden/o | combining form, gland |
| albin/o | combining form, white |
| ang/i | combining form, vessel |
| carcin/o | combining form, cancer |
| caus/o | combining form, burn or burning |
| cellul/o | combining form, little cell |
| cutane/o | combining form, skin |
| derm/a or derm/o or dermat/o | combining form, skin |
| erythr/o | combining form, red |
| follicul/o | combining form, little bag |
| hidr/o | combining form, sweat |
| icter/o | combining form, jaundice |
| integument/o | combining form, a covering |
| jaund/o | combining form, yellow |
| kel/o | combining form, tumor |
| kerat/o | combining form, horn |
| leuk/o | combining form, white |
| melan/o | combining form/ black |
| myc/o | combining form/ fungus |
| onych/o | combining form/ nail |
| pachy/o | combining form/ thick |
| pedicul/o | combining form, a louse |
| plak/o | combining form, plate |
| prurit/o | combining form, itching |
| rhytid/o | combining form, wrinkle |
| scler/o | combining form, hard or hardening |
| seb/o | combining form, oil |
| trich/o | combining form, hair |
| ungu/o | combining form, nail |
| vuls/o | combining form, to pull |
| xanth/o | combining form, yellow |
| xer/o | combining form, dry |
| actin | word root, ray or light |
| chym | word root, juice |
| chord | word root, cord |
| coriat | word root, corium |
| cubit | word root, to lie |
| log | word root, study |
| lopec | word root, fox manage |
| milliar | word root, millet or tiny |
| pannicul | word root, fat cells |
| tel | word root, end or distant |
| acetabul/o | combining forms, acetabulum |
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