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Medical Terminology
chapter 2-4
| Word Part | Definition |
|---|---|
| -er, -ist | one who |
| -iatrician | practitioner |
| -logist | one who studies; specialist |
| -ac, -al, -ic, -logic, -logical | pertaining to(adj.) |
| -iatrics, -iatry | medical profession or treatment |
| -logy | study or science of |
| cardi(o) | heart |
| crin(o) | to secrete |
| dermat(o) | skin |
| esthi(o) | feeling or sensation |
| gastr(o) | stomach |
| enter(o) | intestines |
| ger(a), ger(o), geront(o) | elderly |
| gynec(o) | female |
| immun(o) | immune |
| ne(o), nat(o) | new, birth |
| neur(o) | nerve |
| obstertr(o) | midwife |
| onc(o) | tumor |
| ophthalm(o) | eye |
| orth(o), ped(o) | straight, child somtimes food |
| ot(o), Laryng(o) | ear, larynx |
| path(o) | disease |
| psych(o) | mind |
| rheumat(o) | rheumatism |
| radi(o) | radiant engery |
| rhin(o) | nose |
| ur(o) | urinary tract (sometimes urine) |
| bi(o) | life or living |
| dent(i), dent(o), odont(o) | tooth |
| opt(o), optic(o) | vision |
| or(o) | mouth |
| pharmac(o) | drugs or medicine |
| therapeut(o) | treatment |
| an- | no, not, or without |
| endo- | inside |
| -crine | secrete |
| -centesis | surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid |
| -ectomy | excision(surgical removal or cutting out) |
| -lysis | process of loosening, freeing or destroying |
| -pexy | surgical fixation(fastening in a fixed position |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -rrhaphy | suture(uniting a would by stiches) |
| -scope | instrument used for viewing (also used in diagnostic procedures) |
| -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 |
| blephar(o) | eyelid |
| cerebr(o), encephal(o) | brain |
| chir(o) | hand |
| col(o), colon(o) | colon |
| cutane(o), dermat(o) | skin |
| mamm(o), mast(o) | breast |
| nephr(o), ren(o) | kidney |
| oste(o) | bone |
| tonsill(o) | tonsil |
| vas(o) | vessel; ductus deferens (also called vas deferens, excretory duct of the testicles |
| -algia, -dynia | pain |
| -ectasia, esctasis | dilation or streching of a structure or part |
| -edema | swelling |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -malacia | softening |
| -megaly | enlargment |
| -oid | resembling(forms N and A) |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | excessive bleeding or hemorrhage |
| -rrhea | flow or discharge |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -spasm | twitching, cramp |
| -stasis | stopping, controling |
| -gram | a record |
| -graph | an instrument used to record |
| -graphy | the process of recording |
| ech(o) | sound |
| electr(o) | electricity |
| fluor(o) | emittng or reflecting light |
| radi(o) | radiant energy |
| tom(o) | to cut |
| ultra- | excessive |
| cancer(o), carcin(o) | cancer |
| -cele | hernia |
| -emia | condition of the blood |
| -ia-, iasis | condition |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -lith | stone or calculus |
| -mania | excessive preoccupation |
| -maniac | a person who shows excessive preoccupation |
| -oma | tumor |
| -osis | condition(often an abnormal condition; somtimes an increase) |
| -pathy | disease |
| -phobia | abnormal fear |
| -ptosis | prolapse |
| -able, -ible | capable of, able to (adj.) |
| -an, -ary, -eal, -ive, -tic | pertaining to (adj.) |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -eum, -ium | membrane |
| -ia, -ism | condition or theory |
| -iac | one who suffers |
| -opia | vision |
| -ose | sugar |
| -ous | pertaining to or characterized by (adj.) |
| -y | state or condition |
| cyt(o) | cell |
| -cyte | cell |
| gen(o) | begining origin |
| -genic | produced by or in |
| -genesis | producing or forming |
| kinesi(o) | movement |
| -kinesia, -kinesis | movement, motion |
| leps(o) | seizure |
| -lepsy | seizure |
| log(o) | words |
| lys(o) | destruction or dissolving |
| -lysin | that which destroys |
| -lyctic | capable of destroying |
| megal(o) | large, enlarged |
| metr(o) | measure; uterine tissue |
| phag(o) | eat |
| -phagia, -phagic, -phagy | eating, swallowing |
| phas(o) | speech |
| -phasia | speech |
| plas(o) | formation, development |
| -plasia | formation, development |
| plast(o) | repair |
| pleg(o) | paralysis |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| schis(o), schiz(o), schist(o), | split, cleft |
| schisis | split, cleft |
| scler(o) | hard |
| -sclerosis | hardening |
| scop(o) | examine, view |
| troph(o) | nutrition |
| -trophic, -trophy | nutrition |
| alb(o), albin(o), leuk(o), leuc(o) | white |
| chlor(o) | green |
| cyan(o) | blue |
| erythr(o) | red |
| melan(o) | black |
| xanth(o) | yellow |
| algesi(o) | sensitivity to pain |
| chem(o) | chemical |
| narc(o) | stupor |
| tox(o), toxic(o) | posion |
| -therapy | treatment |
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