Question | Answer |
adip/o | fat |
anter/o | front |
bol/o | throw |
chrondro/o | cartilage |
hist/o | tissue |
inguin/o | groin |
kary/o | nuclues |
sacr/o | flesh |
ana- | up |
cata- | down |
pleural cavity | space surrounding each lung |
mediastinum | centrally located area outside of and between the lungs |
peritoneum | double folded membrane surrounding the abdominal cavity |
acr/o | extremities |
acu/o | sudden (acute) |
angi/o | vessel |
arthr/o | joint |
axill/o | armpit |
blephar/o | eyelid |
chondr/o | cartilage |
col/o | colon |
cyst/o | urinary bladder |
encephalo/o | brain |
erythr/o | red |
hepat/o | liver |
inguin/o | groin |
isch/o | to hold back |
lapar/o | abdomen |
leuk/o | white |
mamm/o | brest |
mast/o | breast |
muc/o | mucus |
my/o | muscle |
myel/o | spinal cord, bone marrow (context) |
necr/o | death |
neutr/o | neutrophil (white blood cell) |
ophthalm/o | eye |
ot/o | ear |
peritone/o | peritoneum |
phag/o | to eat, swallow |
phleb/o | vein |
plas/o | formation, development |
rect/o | rectum |
sarc/o | flesh |
splen/o | spleen |
staphyl/o | clusters |
strept/o | twisted chains |
-cele | hernia |
-centesis | surgical procedure ot remove fluid |
-coccus | berry shaped bacteria |
-cyte | cell |
-dynia | pain |
-ectomy | removal |
-emia | blood condition |
-genesis | beginning |
-gram | record |
-graph | instrument for recording |
-graphy | process of recording |
-itis | inflammation |
-logy | study of |
-lysis | breakdwon, destruction, separation |
-malacia | softening |
-megaly | enlargement |
-oma | tumor |
-opsy | to view |
-osis | condition, usually abnormal |
-pathy | disease condition |
-penia | deficiency |
-phobia | fear |
plasia | development, formation, growth |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-ptosis | drooping, sagging, prolapse |
-sclerosis | hardening |
-scope | instrument for visual examination |
-scopy | process of visual examination |
-stasis | stopping, controlling |
-stomy | opening ot form a mouth (stoma) |
-tomy | incision, cutting into |
-trophy | development, nourishment |
-er | one who does something (geographer) |
-ia | condition |
-ist | specialist |
-ole, ule | little, small |
-um, -ium | structure, tissue |
-us | structure, substance |
-y | condition, process |
-ac, -iac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal | pertaining to |
-genic | pertaining to producing, produced by, or in |
-ic, -ical | pertaining to |
-oid | resembling |
-ose | pertaining to, full of |
-ous, -tic | pertaining to |
carp/o | wrist bones |
cib/o | meals |
cis/o | to cut |
cost/o | rib |
cutane/o | skin |
dactyl/o | dingers, toes |
duct/o | to lead, carry |
flex/o | to bend |
furc/o | forking, branching |
gloss/o | tongue |
glyc/o | sugar |
immuno/o | protection |
morph/o | shape, form |
mort/o | death |
nati/i | birth |
nect/o | to bind, tie, connect |
norm/o | rule, order |
ox/o | oxygen |
pub/o | pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone |
seps/o | infection |
somn/o | sleep |
son/o | sound |
the/o | to put, place |
thel/o | nipple |
thyr/o | thyroid gland |
top.o | place, position, location |
tox/o | poison |
trache/o | windpipe, treache |
urethr/o | urethra |
-blast | embryonic, immature |
-crine | to secrete |
-cyesis | pregnancy |
-drome | to run |
-fusion | coming together; to pour |
-gen | substance that produces |
-lape | to side, fall, sag |
-lysis | breakdown, separation, loosening |
-mter | to measure |
-mission | to send |
-or | one who |
-partum | birth, labor |
-phoria | to bear, carry; feeling (mental state) |
-physis | to grow |
-plasia | development, formation |
-plasm | structure or formation |
-pnea | breathing |
-ptosis | droop, sag, prolapse |
-rrhea | flow, discharge |
-stasis | stop, control |
-trophy | nourishment, development |
ab- | away from (b faces away from a) |
ad- | toward (d faces towards a) |
ana- | up, apart |
ante- | before, forward |
cata- | down |
con- | with, together |
dia- | through, complete |
dys- | bad, painful, abnormal |
ec-, ecto- | out, outside |
en-, endo- | in, within |
epi- | upon, on, above |
eu- | good, normal |
ex- | out, away from (exophthalmos - protrusion of the eye) |
in- | not/in, within |
infra- | beneath |
intra- | within |
mal- | bad |
meta- | beyond, change |
micro- | small |
neo- | new |
pan- | all |
para- | abnormal, beside, near |
per- | through |
peri- | surrounding |
poly- | many, much |
re- | back, again |
retro- | behind, backward |
sub- | under |
supra- | above, upper |
syn-,sym- | together, with |
trans- | across, through |