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) |