Medical Terminology
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| cyan/o | Blue
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| erythr/o | Red
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| leuk/o | white
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| melan/o | black
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| poli/o | gray
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| Hyper | excessive
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| pre | Before
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| post | after
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| Homo | same
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| Hypo | under
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| prenatal | Time before Birth
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| ab | Away from
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| dys | bad difficult pain
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| inter | between, amoung
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| sub | under, less, below
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| hypo | deficient, decreased
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| intra | within, inside
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| super/supra | above, excessive
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| itis | inflammation
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| malacia | abnormal softening
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| megaly | enlargement
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| necrosis | tissue dealth
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| sclerosis | abnormal hardening
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| stenosis | abnormal narrowing
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| centesis | surgical punture to remove fluid
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| graphy | producing a picture record
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| plasty | surgical repair
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| scopy | visual examination
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| rrange or rragia | bleeding
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| rrhopy | surgical closure of wound
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| rrhea | flow or discharge of body fluids
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| rrhexis | rupture
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| AD | Toward or in the direction of
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| ADEN/O | Gland
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| Anatomy | study of body structure
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| APTERI/O | Artery
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| CONGENITAL | disease inherited at birth
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| DISTAL | Farthest from the Middle
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| DORSAL | back of the body/organ
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| END/O | inside the body
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| EX/O | Outside of Body
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| FRONTAL | Plane dividing back and front
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| GASTR/O | Stomach
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| GENETIC | Hereditary disease /disorder
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| INTERIOR | Structure closest to feet
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| LESION | pathological change of tissue due to injury/disease
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| MALACIA | abnormal softening
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| NOSOCOMIAL | Hospital- acquired infection
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| -OLOGIST | specialist
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| -OLOGY | Study of
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| -OSIS | A disease or abnormal condition
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| PHYSIOLOGY | study of body function
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| -PLASIA | Formation of a tissue/organ
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| PRONE | Position lying on a stomach
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| PROXIMAL | closest to the midline of the body
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| -RRHAPHY | to suture or stitch
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| SAGITTAL | Plane dividing right/left sides
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| Superior | Closest to head
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| SUPINE | position laying on the back
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| TRANSVERSE | Plane dividing top and bottom
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| VENTRAL | in front of the body/organ
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| arthro/o | joint
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| bi | life
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| brady | slow
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| caud/o | lower part of the tail
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| -cele | hernia, tumor,swelling
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| cephal/o | head
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| chondr/o | cartilage
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| cost/o | rib
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| crani/o | skull
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| desis | to bind, tie together
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| fasci/o | face, form
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| fibr/o | ,fibrous tissue,fiber
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| hemo | blood, relating to blood
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| poly | many
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| kines/o, kinesi/o | movement
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| lysis | breakdown, separation, setting free, destruction, loosening
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| my/o | muscle
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| myel/o | spinal cord, bone marrow
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| oste/o | bone
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| porosis | lessening in density,porous condition
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| ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o | tendon, stretch out,extend, strain
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| ton/o | tension
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| tri- | three
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