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1-5 Word Parts
Chapters 1-5 for test 1
| Word Part | Meaning |
|---|---|
| -er, ist | one who |
| -iatrician | practitioner |
| -logist | one who studies; specialist |
| -a, -al, -ic, -logic, -logical | pertaining to |
| -iatrics, iatry | medical profession or treatment |
| -logy | study or science of |
| cari/o | heart |
| crin/o | to secrete |
| dermat/o | skin |
| esthesi/o | feeling or sensation |
| gastr/o, enter/o | stomach, intestines |
| ger/a, ger/o, geront/o | elderly |
| immun/o | immune |
| ne/o, nat/o | new, birth |
| neur/o | nerve |
| obstetr/o | midwife |
| onc/o | tumor |
| ophthalm/o | eye |
| orth/o | straight |
| ped/o | child (sometimes foot) |
| ot/o, laryng/o | ear, larynx |
| path/o | disease |
| psycho/o | mind |
| radi/o | radiation (sometimes radius) |
| rheumat/o | rheumatism |
| rhin/o | nose |
| ur/o | urinary tract (sometimes urine) |
| -centesis | surgical puncture |
| -ectomy | excision(surgical removal or cutting out) |
| -lysis | destroying |
| -pexy | surgical fixation (fastening to a fixed position) |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -rraphy | suture (uniting a wound by stitches) |
| -scopy | visual exam with a lighted instrument |
| -stomy | formation of an opening |
| -tome | an instrument used for cutting |
| -tomy | incision (cutting into tissue) |
| -tripsy | surgical crushing |
| aden/o | gland |
| angi/o | vessel |
| append/o, appendic/o | appendix |
| bi/o | life or living |
| blephar/o | eyelid |
| cerebr/o, encephal/o | brain |
| chir/o | hand |
| col/o | colon or large intestine |
| cutane/o, derm/a, dermat/o | skin |
| faci/o | face |
| hepat/o | liver |
| mamm/o, mast/o | breast |
| muscul/o, my/o | muscle |
| myel/o | bone marrow or spinal cord |
| oste/o | bone |
| pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o | lungs |
| tonsill/o | tonsil |
| trache/o | trachea (windpipe) |
| va/o | vessel; ductus deferens |
| -algia, -dynia | pain |
| -cele | hernia |
| -ectasia, -ectasis | dilation, enlargement or stretching of a structure of part |
| -edema | swelling |
| -emia | condition of the blood |
| -ia, -iasis | condition |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -lith | stone or calculus |
| -malacia | soft, softening |
| -mania | excessive preoccupation |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -oid | resembling |
| -oma | tumor |
| -osis | conition (often an abnormal coniditon; sometimes an increase) |
| -pathy | disease |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -phobia | abnormal fear |
| -ptosis | prolapse (sagging) |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | excessive bledding or hemorrhage |
| -rrhea | flow or discharge |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -spasm | twitching, ramp |
| -stasis | stopping, controlling |
| -able, -ible | capable of, able to |
| -ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ive, -tic | pertaining to |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -eum, ium | membrane |
| -ia, ism | condition or theory |
| -iac | one who suffers |
| -opia | vision |
| -ose | sugar |
| -ous | pertaining to or characterized by |
| -y | state or conidition |
| amyl/o | starch |
| glyc/o | sugar |
| hemat/o | blood |
| lact/o | milk |
| lip/o | fat |
| lith/o | stone |
| micro- | small |
| muc/o | mucus |
| prote/o, protein/o | protein |
| pyr/o | fire |
| mono-, uni- | one |
| bi-, di- | two |
| tri- | three |
| quad-, quadri-, tetra- | four |
| centi- | one hundred or one-hundredth 1/100 |
| milli- | one-thousandth 1/1000 |
| diplo- | double |
| hemi-, semi- | half, partly |
| hyper- | excessive, more than normal |
| hypo- | beneath or below normal |
| multi, poly- | many |
| nulli- | none |
| pan- | all |
| primi- | first |
| super-, ultraq- | excessive |
| ab- | away from |
| ad- | toward |
| ante-, pre- | before in time or in place |
| circum-, peri- | around |
| dia- | through |
| ecto-, ex-, exo-, extra- | out, without, away from |
| en-, end-, endo- | inside |
| epi- | above, on |
| hypo-, infra-, sub- | beneath, under |
| inter | between |
| intra- | within |
| meso-, mid- | middle |
| para- | near, beside, or abnormal |
| per- | through or by |
| post- | after, behind |
| retro- | behind, backward |
| super-, supra- | above, beyond |
| sym-, syn- | jointed, together |
| trans- | across |
| ante-, pre-, pro- | before |
| post- | after or behind |
| macro-, mega-,. megalo- | large or great |
| micro- | small |
| a-, an- | no, not, without |
| in- | not or inside (in) |
| anti-, contra- | against |
| brady- | slow |
| dys- | bad, difficult |
| eu- | good, normal |
| mal- | bad |
| pro- | favoring, supporting |
| tachy- | fast |
| alb/o, albin/o, leuk/o | white |
| chlor/o | green |
| cyan/o | blue |
| erythr/o | red |
| melan/o | black |
| xanth/o | yellow |
| cyt/o, -cyte | cell |
| gen/o, -genic, -genesis | beginning, origin |
| gram/o | to record |
| -gram | a record |
| -graph | instrument for recording |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| kinesi/o, -kinesia, -kinesis | movement, motion |
| leps/o, -lepsy | seizure |
| lys/o | destruction, dissolving |
| -lysin | that wich destroys |
| -lysis | process of destroying |
| -lytic | capable of or producing destruction |
| malac/o, malacia | soft, softening |
| megal/o, megaly | large, enlarged, enlargement |
| metr/o | measure, uterine tissue |
| -meter | instrument used to measure |
| -metry | process of measuing |
| path/o, -pathy | disease |
| phag/o | eat, ingest |
| -phagia, -phagic, -phagy | eating, swallowing |
| phas/o, phasia | speech |
| pleg/o, -plegia | paralysis |
| schis/o, schiz/o, schist/o, -schisis | split, cleft |
| scler/o, -sclerosis | hard, hardening |
| scop/o | to examine, to view |
| troph/o, -trophic, -trophy | nutrition |
| aer/o | air |
| blast/o | embryonic form |
| cancer/o, carcin/o | cancer |
| cephal/o | head |
| cry/o | cold |
| crypt/o | hidden |
| dips/o | thirst |
| electr/o | electricity |
| fibr/o | fiber |
| hist/o | tissue |
| myc/o | fungus |
| narc/o | stupor |
| necr/o | dead |
| optic/o, opt/o | vision |
| pharmac/o | drugs, medicine |
| phon/o | voice |
| phot/o | light |
| py/o | pus |
| therm/o | heat |
| top/o | position, place |
| trache/o | trachea (windpipe) |
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