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Module 12
Medical Terminology Module 12 Fall Semester 2025
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ad- | Near or beside |
| Calco- | Pebbles or granules of calcium mineral |
| Cec/o- | Blind pouch |
| Colpo- | Vagina |
| Crypto- | Hidden |
| Culd/o- | Blind Pouch |
| -cyesis | Pregnancy |
| Cyst/o- | Bladder or sac |
| Ec- | Outside, outward, outer, out |
| Embryo- | Early |
| Enema | Injection |
| Enuresis | To void or expel urine |
| Episi/o- | Pubic region or vulva |
| Ergo- | work or labor |
| Estr/o- | female |
| Eu | good or normal |
| Fec/o- | stool or fecal matter |
| Fet/o- | young |
| Fiss- | to split or splitting |
| Fistul/o- | pipe or pipe stem |
| Genit/o- | reproductive or birth |
| Gest- | to bear or separate |
| Glomerul/o- | small round mass or tiny ball |
| Gravid/o- | heavy or pregnant |
| Groin | inguinal region |
| Gynec/o- | woman |
| Haplo- | half (single) |
| Hyal/o- | glassy or glass-like |
| Hyster/o- | uterus |
| Iatr/o- | treat or cure, procedure of treating |
| Kary/o- | nucleus |
| Kraur/o- | dryness |
| Lact/o- | milk |
| -lapse | falling or slippage |
| Libid/o- | desire |
| Mamm/o- | breast |
| Mast/o- | breast |
| Mei/o- and Mio- | lesser, smaller, fewer, and constrict |
| Men/o- | monthly or month |
| Metr/a- | uterus or womb |
| Mictur/o- | to make water or urinate |
| Nat- | birth |
| Nephr/o- | kidney |
| -o/pexxy | to fixate, attach, sew |
| -o/rrhea | discharge or flow |
| Obstetr/o- | midwife |
| Oophor/o- | ovary |
| Orchi/o- | testes or seed producer |
| Ov/o- | egg |
| Part/o- | birth or labor |
| Pen/o- | tail or penis |
| Perin/o- | base or floor |
| -phase | stage |
| Placent/a- | cake |
| Prepuse | foreskin or hood |
| Prostat/o- | one who lies before |
| Pyel/o- | pelvis or kidney |
| Ren/o- | kidney |
| Salping/o- | tube, duct, canal |
| Scrot/o- | sac or pouch |
| Semin/o- | seed or seed producer |
| Tel/o- | end or outward |
| Term | end, place at the end, or boundary |
| Test/e- | witness |
| Toci/o- | birth, giving birth, birthing |
| Torsi- | twisted |
| Tub/o- | canal or tube |
| Umbilic/o- | navel |
| Ur/o- | urine |
| Ureter/o- | small canal |
| Urethero- | canal |
| utero- | womb |
| Vagin/o- | sheath |
| Volv/o- | to twist, twisting, rolling |
| Vulv/o- | covering |