Medical Terminology
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| cyst(o), cysti | bladder, cyst, cystic duct
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| gonio | angle
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| calc(o), calci(o) | calcium
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| narco | sleep; numbness
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| necr(o) | death; dying
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| tox(i), toxico, toxo | poison; toxin
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| therm(o) | heat
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| pharmaco | drugs; medicine
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| chrono | time
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| gero, geront(o) | old age
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| chore(o) | dance
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| physo | air; gas; growing
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| stere(o) | three-dimensional
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| lip(o) | fat
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| gyn(o), gyne, gyneco | women
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| kyph(o) | humpback
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| cac(o) | bad; ill
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| oxy | sharp; acute; oxygen
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| andro | masculine
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| granulo | granular
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| iatr(o) | physician; treatment
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| normo | normal
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| xeno | stranger
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| schiz(o) | split; division
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| path(o) | disease
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| chyl(o) | chyle, a digestive juice
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| macr(o) | large; long
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| leuk(o) | white
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| actin(o), phot(o) | light
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| medi(o) | middle; medial plane
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| pseud(o) | false
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| strepto | twisted chains; streptococci
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| chlor(o) | chlorine, green
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| phon(o) | sound; voice; speech
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| amyl(o) | starch
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| latero | lateral, to one side
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| alge, algesi, algio, algo | pain
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| ket(o), keton(o) | ketone; acetone
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| lys(o) | dissolution
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| radio | radiation; x-ray; radius
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| kal(i) | potassium
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| kinesi(o), kineso | motion
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| glyco | sugars
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| zymo | fermentation; enzyme
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| spher(o) | round; spherical
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| syring(o), salping(o) | tube
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| sidero | iron
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| somat(o) | body
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| spir(o) | breath; breathe
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| lith(o) | stone
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| immun(o) | safe; immune
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| chym(o) | chyme, semifluid present during digestion
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| mes(o) | middle; median
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| phago | eating; devouring; swallowing
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| erythr(o) | red, redness
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| steno | narrowness
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| oncho, onco | tumor
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| cry(o) | cold
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| etio | cause
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| cyt(o) | cell
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| spasmo | spasm
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| blasto | immature cells
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| gen(o) | producing; being born
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| tropho | food; nutrition
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| dors(o), dorsi | back
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| ethmo | ethmoid bone
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| xiph(o) | sword; xiphoid
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| chrom, chromat, chromo | color
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| dips(o) | thirst
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| micr(o) | small; one-millionth; tiny
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| terato | monster (as a malformed fetus)
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| chem(o) | chemical
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| pachy | thick
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| crypt(o) | hidden; obscure
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| schisto | split
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| kin(o), kine, cine(o) | movement
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| cyan(o) | blue
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| coni(o) | dust
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| staphyl(o) | grapelike clusters
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| fungi | fungus
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| xanth(o) | yellow
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| xer(o) | dry
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| scler(o) | hardness; hardening
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| athero | plaque; fatty substance
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| squamo | scale; squamous
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| dynamo | force; energy
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| home(o), homo | same; constant
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| morph(o) | structure; shape
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| top(o) | place; topical
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| ergo | work
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| pyreto | fever
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| dextr(o) | right, toward the right
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| scolio | crooked; bent
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| log(o) | speech, words, thought
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| plasma, plasmo | formative; plasma
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| gluco | glucose
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| scoto | darkness
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| idio | distinct; unknown
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| aer(o) | air; gas
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| esthesio | sensation, perception
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| acanth(o) | spiny; thorny
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| electr(o) | electricity; electric
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| bacill(i) | bacilli; bacteria
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| pyo | pus
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| melan(o) | black; dark
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| carcin(o) | cancer
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| bar(o) | weight; pressure
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| bacteri(o) | bacteria
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| sono | sound
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| orth(o) | straight; normal
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| meg(a), megal(o) | large; million
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| bio, vivi, zo(o) | life
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| phyt(o) | plant
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| tono | tension; pressure
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| cycl(o) | circle; cycle; ciliary body
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| physi, physio | physical; natural
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| poikilo | varied; irregular
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| styl(o) | peg-shaped
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| galact(o), lact(o), lacti | milk
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| somn(o), somni, hypn(o) | sleep
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| pyro | fever; fire; heat
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| mio | smaller; less
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| fluor(o) | light; luminous; fluorine
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| lepto | light, frail, thin
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| chondrio, chondro | cartilage, grainy, gritty
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| nucle(o), karyo | nucleus
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| crin(o) | secrete
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| fibr(o) | fiber
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| echo | reflected sound
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| sito | food; grain
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| nyct(o), noct(i) | night
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| eosin(o) | red; rosy
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| ichthy(o) | dry; scaly; fish
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| hydr(o) | hydrogen, water
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| bas(o), basi(o) | base
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| tel(o), tele(o) | distant; end; complete
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