Chapter 1: Flashcards
Alphabetical Order (CF'S, Prefixes, & Suffixes)
aden/o
gland
arthr/o
joint
bi/o
life
carcin/o
cancerous, cancer
cardi/o
heart
cephal/o
head
cerebr/o
cerebrum
cis/o
to cut
crin/o
to secrete
cyst/o
urinary bladder
cyt/o
cell
derm/o or dermat/o
skin
electr/o
electricity
encephal/o
brain
erythr/o
red
enter/o
intestines
gastr/o
stomach
glyc/o
sugar
gynec/o
woman, female
gnos/o
knowledge
hemat/o or hem/o
blood
iatr/o
treatment, physician
leuk/o
white
nephr/o
kidney
log/o
study of
nuer/o
nerve
onc/o
tumor
opthalm/o
eye
oste/o
bone
path/o
disease
ped/o
child
radi/o
x-rays
psych/o
mind
ren/o
kidney
rhin/o
nose
sarc/o
flesh
sect/o
to cut
thromb/o
clot, clotting
ur/o
urinary tract
(Suffix) -ac
pertaining to
(Suffix) -al
pertaining to
(Suffix) -algia
pain
(Suffix) -cyte
cell
(Suffix) -ectomy
excision, removal
(Suffix) -emia
blood condition
(Suffix) -genic
produced by or in
(Suffix) -globin
protein
(Suffix) -gram
record
(Suffix) -ic, -ical
pertaining to
(Suffix) -ion
process
(Suffix) -ist
specialist
(Suffix) -itis
inflammation
(Suffix) -logy
process of study
(Suffix) -oma
tumor, mass, swelling
(Suffix) -opsy
process of viewing
(Suffix) -osis
condition, usually abnormal
(Suffix) -pathy
disease condition
(Suffix) -scope
instrument to visually examine
(Suffix) -scopy
process of visually examining
(Suffix) -sis
state of; condition
(Suffix) -tomy
process of cutting, incision
(Suffix) -y
process, condition
(Prefix) a-, an-
no, not, without
(Prefix) aut-, auto-
self, own
(Prefix) dia-
complete, through
(Prefix) end-, endo-
within
(Prefix) epi-
above, upon
(Prefix) ex- , exo-
out, outside of, outward
(Prefix) hyper-
excessive, above, more than normal
(Prefix) hypo-
deficient, below, under, less than normal
(Prefix) in-
into, in
(Prefix) peri-
surrounding, around
(Prefix) pro-
before, forward
(Prefix) re-
back, backward, again
(Prefix) retro-
behind
(Prefix) sub-
below, under
(Prefix) trans-
across, through