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Weber State Med Term
Chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| a- an- | not |
| anti- contra- | against |
| auto- | self |
| hyper- | too much |
| hypo- sub- | too little |
| neo- | new |
| post- | after |
| pre- pro- | before |
| re- | again |
| ab- | away from (abduct) |
| ad- | toward (adduct) |
| ana - | up |
| ante- | before, in front of |
| apo- | from, away from |
| circum- peri- | around |
| con- | with or together |
| contra- | against (place) |
| de- | down or away from |
| dia- trans | through |
| e- ec- | out of |
| ecto- | outside |
| en- endo- intra- | in or inside |
| epi- supra- | upon, on top of |
| ex- exo- extra- | out or outside |
| hyper- | over |
| hypo- infra- infro- | under |
| inter- | between |
| pre- pro- | before, in front of |
| retro- | behind |
| sub- | underneath |
| sym- syn- | with or together |
| xeno- | foreign |
| dys- | bad |
| eu- | perfect, good, true |
| macro- | large |
| mega- | enlarged |
| micro- | small |
| hemi- semi- | half |
| mono- uni- | one |
| bi- di- | two |
| tri- | three |
| quad tetra- | four |
| penta- pento- | five |
| hexa- hexo- | six |
| pluri- poly- | several; more than one |
| oligo- | several; a handful |
| multi- | many |
| pan- | all |
| brady- | slow |
| chron/o | time-dependent |
| tachy- | fast |
| -ac -al -ar -ary -eal -ic -ous 0tic | pertaining to |
| -algia -dynia | pain |
| -cele | hernia (something that sticks out where is shouldn't) |
| -centesis | puncture |
| -cide | killing |
| -cyte | cell |
| -desis | binding (by a disease process) |
| -ectomy | removal (notice ec- in prefixes list means "out of" and -tomy in this list means "cutting" so "cutting out of") |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -genic | creating; giving rise to |
| -gram | visual record |
| -graph | instrument used to produce a visual record |
| -graphy | procedure used to produce a visual record |
| -ia -y | condition; disease; literally, "place" (Bulgaria is the place of the Bulgars; Arabia is the place of the Arabs, Germany is the place of the Germans |
| -iasis | presence of |
| -iatrics -iatry | medical science |
| -iatrist | specialist in the practice of |
| -icle -ole -ule -ula | diminutive suffix; is makes whatever is in front of it smaller (icicle) |
| -ise -ize | ending that makes a noun into a verb (e.g., strategy vs stategize) |
| -ism | condition or procedure or belief |
| -ist | specialist |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -ium | tissue or structure |
| -lith | stone |
| -logist | specialist in the study of |
| -logy | study of |
| -lysis | breakdown; destruction |
| -malacia | softening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -meter | instrument for measurement |
| -metry | the process of using an instrument for measurement |
| -oid | resembling |
| -oma | tumor or swelling |
| -osis | condition |
| -pathy | diease |
| -penia | deficiency, lack of |
| -pexia | surgical fixation; binding by a surgical procedure (compare - desis) |
| -plasty | surgical reconstruction or reformation |
| -ptosis | drooping |
| -rrhage -rrhea | excessive flow |
| -rrhaphy | surgical formation of a seam; suturing |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -scope | instrument for visualizing something |
| -scopy | process of using an instrument to visualize something |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction |
| -stomy | creation of an opening (see stoma="mouth") |
| -tion | word ending that makes a noun into a process (form vs formation) |
| -tomy | cut; incision |
| -us | condition |
| afferent | going forwards |
| arthro/o | joint |
| bacteri/o | bacteria |
| bio | life |
| blast | rapidly dividing cell |
| carc/i carc/in carc/ino | cancer (Greek word that literally means "crab) |
| caud/o | tail |
| card/i card/io | heart |
| cephal/o | head |
| chole | bile (bodily humor in Greek medical practice) |
| constrict sten/o | narrowing; decreasing the size of an opening (constriction is generally normal where stenosis is generally abnormal) |
| cyst/o | bladder; fluid-filled space |
| dilate | increasing in size of an opening |
| efferent | going away from |
| enceph/a encephal/o | en- + -cephal-head, "inside the head" |
| eti/o | how something came to be, from Greek aitia, "cause" +o + -ology |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| gen/o | cause, origin |
| genetic | inheritance |
| hem/o hemat/o | blood |
| hepat/o | liver |
| hydr/o | water |
| morph/o | change |
| muscul/o my/o | muscle |
| myc/o | fungus |
| necr/o | dead |
| neur/o | nervous system |
| orth/o | straight, at right angles |
| ost/e ost/eo | bone |
| path/o | disease (literally, "suffering") |
| ped/o | children |
| phag/o | eating |
| plas/o | formation |
| py/o | pus |
| sarc/o | flesh, muscle |
| scler/o | hard |
| stom/a/t | mouth |
| therm/o | temperature |
| troph/o | nourishment )e.g, a trophy is nourishment for a job well done) |
| trop/o | moving towards or acting on |
| ur | urine |
| valv/ulo | valve |
| pericadium (singular Latin) | pericardia (plural) |
| periosteum (singular Latin) | periostea (plural) |
| mitochondrion (singular Latin) | mitochondria (plural) |
| carcinoma (singular Greek) | carcinomata (plural) |
| sarcoma (singular Greek) | sarcomata (plural) |
| iris (singular Greek) | rides (plural) |
| diagnosis (singular Greek) | diagnoses (plural) |
| necrosis (singular Greek) | necroses (plural) |
| cystocentesis (singular Greek) | cystocenteses (plural) |
| mycosis (singular Greek) | mycoses (plural) |
| thorax (singular Greek) | thoraces (plural) |
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