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Medical Terminology
A- to EMBRYO-
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A- | without or lack of |
| Ab- | away (away from) |
| -able | capable of or ability to |
| abort/io- | to misscarry (natural or induced) |
| abrupt/io- | to tear away from |
| abscess | a going away |
| acne | pointed |
| acoust/i- | hearing |
| acr/o- | extremities, height, and pointed |
| actin/o- | sun, ray, radium |
| acu- | sharp |
| -ac | refers to, pertains to, or state of |
| ad- | near or beside |
| aden/o- | gland |
| adip/o | fat |
| aer/o | air or gas |
| af- | toward |
| alb/o- | white |
| alges/i- | pain |
| -algia | pain |
| alopec/i | fox manage or baldness |
| alveol/i | cavity |
| ambi | both |
| ambul/o | to walk |
| amphi | both |
| amylo | starch |
| an- | lack of or without |
| an/o | ring |
| ana | apart or up |
| angi/o | vessel |
| angin/o | vessel |
| ankyl/o | fuse or bind |
| ante- | before |
| anter/o | before or foremost |
| anthrax | coal or carbuncle |
| anti- | against |
| aneurysm- | dialation or ballooning |
| -apheresis | to remove or seperate (blood into parts) |
| apo- | above or upon |
| aqua | water |
| arachino- | spider |
| arche/o | first |
| -aria | air |
| arteri/o | artery |
| arthr/o | joint |
| articul/o | jointed |
| -ar | refers to or pertains to |
| ascar/i- | worm |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -asthenia | weakness |
| asthma | panting |
| atelo | incomplete, without end, imperfect ending |
| athero | porridge or yellow fat |
| -ation | process of or procedure of |
| -atresia | closure |
| atri/o | chamber |
| attrit/i | wearing out |
| audi | hearing |
| aur/i | ear |
| auscult/o | to listen |
| auto | self |
| avuls/i | to tear |
| bacill/o | rod-like |
| bacteri/o | rod |
| balan/o | penis |
| baro | weight |
| bas/o- | basic or at base |
| bene | good or normal |
| benign | kind |
| beri | weakness |
| bi | two |
| bil/i- | bile or gall |
| bin | two |
| bio | life |
| -blast | beginning or young |
| bleb/o | blister |
| blenno | mucus |
| blepharo | eyelid |
| bol/o | lump or ball |
| brach/i | arm |
| brachy | short |
| brady | slow |
| brevi | short |
| bronch/i | windpipe or trachea like |
| brux | grinding |
| bucca | cheek |
| bulba | blister or vesicle |
| bulimo | hunger |
| burs/o | sac, winesac, pouch |
| cal/o | heat, heated or hot |
| calcin/o | calcium |
| calco | pebbles or granules of calcium mineral |
| calx | heel or lime |
| candid/i | glowing white |
| canth/o | corner of eye |
| capill/o | hair-like |
| capit/o | head |
| capn/o- | carbon |
| A- | without or lack of |
| Ab- | away (away from) |
| -able | capable of or ability to |
| abort/io- | to misscarry (natural or induced) |
| abrupt/io- | to tear away from |
| abscess | a going away |
| acne | pointed |
| acoust/i- | hearing |
| acr/o- | extremities, height, and pointed |
| actin/o- | sun, ray, radium |
| acu- | sharp |
| -ac | refers to, pertains to, or state of |
| ad- | near or beside |
| aden/o- | gland |
| adip/o | fat |
| aer/o | air or gas |
| af- | toward |
| alb/o- | white |
| alges/i- | pain |
| -algia | pain |
| alopec/i | fox manage or baldness |
| alveol/i | cavity |
| ambi | both |
| ambul/o | to walk |
| amphi | both |
| amylo | starch |
| an- | lack of or without |
| an/o | ring |
| ana | apart or up |
| angi/o | vessel |
| angin/o | vessel |
| ankyl/o | fuse or bind |
| ante- | before |
| anter/o | before or foremost |
| anthrax | coal or carbuncle |
| anti- | against |
| aneurysm- | dialation or ballooning |
| -apheresis | to remove or seperate (blood into parts) |
| apo- | above or upon |
| aqua | water |
| arachino- | spider |
| arche/o | first |
| -aria | air |
| arteri/o | artery |
| arthr/o | joint |
| articul/o | jointed |
| -ar | refers to or pertains to |
| ascar/i- | worm |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -asthenia | weakness |
| asthma | panting |
| atelo | incomplete, without end, imperfect ending |
| athero | porridge or yellow fat |
| -ation | process of or procedure of |
| -atresia | closure |
| atri/o | chamber |
| attrit/i | wearing out |
| audi | hearing |
| aur/i | ear |
| auscult/o | to listen |
| auto | self |
| avuls/i | to tear |
| bacill/o | rod-like |
| bacteri/o | rod |
| balan/o | penis |
| baro | weight |
| bas/o- | basic or at base |
| bene | good or normal |
| benign | kind |
| beri | weakness |
| bi | two |
| bil/i- | bile or gall |
| bin | two |
| bio | life |
| -blast | beginning or young |
| bleb/o | blister |
| blenno | mucus |
| blepharo | eyelid |
| bol/o | lump or ball |
| brach/i | arm |
| brachy | short |
| brady | slow |
| brevi | short |
| bronch/i | windpipe or trachea like |
| brux | grinding |
| bucca | cheek |
| bulba | blister or vesicle |
| bulimo | hunger |
| burs/o | sac, winesac, pouch |
| cal/o | heat, heated or hot |
| calcin/o | calcium |
| calco | pebbles or granules of calcium mineral |
| calx | heel or lime |
| candid/i | glowing white |
| canth/o | corner of eye |
| capill/o | hair-like |
| capit/o | head |
| capn/o- | carbon dioxide |
| caput | head |
| carbun/o | glowing ember |
| carcin/o | crab-like |
| cardi/o | heart |
| carp/o | wrist |
| cata | breakdown or down |
| cataract | waterfall or cloudiness |
| catarrh | to flow down |
| catheter/o | to let down into |
| caud/o | tail or toward tail |
| caust/o | burn or heat |
| cauter/o | to burn or to heat |
| cav | hollow |
| cebo | meal or food |
| cec/o | blind pouch |
| -cele | swelling or tumor |
| cel/o | abdomen or belly |
| cellul/o | chambers |
| cement/o | hard |
| -centesis | surgical puncture to drain fluid |
| centi | one-hundredth part (100) |
| centr/i | center |
| cephal/o | head |
| -cept | receiver |
| cereb/o | brain |
| ceru | wax |
| cerv/i | neck |
| chalaz/io | hailstone |
| chancr/o | ulcer (sore) |
| cheil/o | lip |
| chiro | hand |
| chlor/o | green |
| cholangio | bile duct |
| chole | bile or gall |
| cholecyst/o | gallbladder |
| choledoch/o | gallbladder duct (canal) |
| cholera | biliary acture diarrhea |
| chondr/o | cartilage |
| chrom/o | colored |
| chyme | juice |
| -cicatrix | scar |
| -cid | to kill |
| cil/i- | eyelash-like |
| cine/o- | movement filming |
| circum | around |
| cirrh/o | yellow-orange |
| -cis | cut or to cut |
| -clast | breakdown |
| clavicul/o- | collarbone |
| cleido- | clavicle or collar bone |
| clino | bent |
| -clysis | irrigation or injection |
| co- | two |
| coagul/o | clotting or to clot |
| -coccus | berry |
| coccyg/o | tailbone |
| cochle/o | snail-like |
| col/o | colon (big or large intestine) |
| colpo | vagina |
| com | together |
| comato | deep sleep |
| concuss/i | violent shaking |
| condylo- | knuckle |
| coni/o | dust |
| -conis | cone-shaped |
| conjunctiv/o | jointed together |
| contra | against |
| contus/i | bruise |
| convolo- | to roll together |
| cord- | vocal chords or cord |
| cori/o | skin |
| corne/o | cornea or horn shape |
| cornu- | horn or horny |
| coron/o | crowning |
| coronal plane | crowning or frontal body cut |
| corp/o | body |
| cortic/o | bark, outer bark, rind, cortex |
| cost/o | rib |
| crani/o | skull |
| -creas | fleshy or flesh |
| crenat/o | notched |
| -crine | secrete |
| -crit | seperate |
| cruc/i | cross or cross-like |
| cryo | cold |
| crypto | hidden |
| cub/o | cube or cube-shaped |
| cubit/o | elbow |
| culd/o | blind pouch |
| -cule | little |
| currett/o | scooping or scraping |
| -cusis | hearing |
| cusp/i | pointed |
| cuti/o-, cut-, cuti- | skin |
| cyan/o | blue |
| cycl/o | circle |
| -cyesis | pregnancy |
| cyst/o | bladder or sac |
| cyte- | cell or chamber |
| -cytosis | increase in numbers |
| dacryo- | tear |
| dactylo- | digits (fingers and toes) |
| de- | away |
| deci- | one-tenth (1/10) |
| deep | most inward |
| deka- | ten |
| delta | fan shaped or triangular |
| dem/o- | people |
| demi- | half |
| dendr/o- | tree shaped |
| dent/o | tooth or teeth |
| depress/o | lower |
| derm/o | skin |
| dermat/o | skin |
| -desis | binding or to bind |
| dextr/o | right |
| dia- | across, through, total, between |
| -didymus | testis or teste |
| different- | to seperate |
| digit- | finger or toe |
| diplo- | double or two |
| dips/o | thirst or thirsty |
| diphther/i | membrane |
| dis- | away from or reversed |
| dist/o- | farther from |
| diverticul/o | outpouching |
| doch/o | duct or canal |
| doct/o | to teach or teacher |
| dol/o | pain |
| dors/o | back |
| dromo- | running |
| duct/o | to draw or to lead away |
| duoden/o | twelve |
| dura- | hard |
| dy/o- | two or a pair |
| dynam/o- | work or strength |
| -dynia | pain |
| dys- | difficult, faulty, painful |
| -E (suffix) | instrument |
| E- (prefix) | out or remove |
| EC- | outside, outward, outer, out |
| eccrine- | secreting or to secrete |
| echo- | sound |
| -ectasis | enlargement or dilation |
| -ectomy | excision or removal |
| eczema | to boil out |
| edema- | swelling |
| EF- | away or out |
| electr/o | electrical |
| -ellum | lesser or smaller |
| EM- | in |
| embryo- | early |
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