Chapter 1 Intro Flashcards
Medical Language allows healthcare professionals too….
Be clear, communicate quickly and provide comfort to patients
Medical language comes mostly from two ancient languages…
Greek and Latin
Eponyms
Word is based on a name
Example: Lou Gehrig’s disease
Acronyms
Abbreviated
Example: MRI
- Ultima
- Penult
- Antepenult
- the last syllable
- the almost-last syllable
- the one that is just before the penult
- Root
- Suffix
- Prefix
- Foundation or subject of the term
- Ending that gives essential meaning to the term
- Added to the beginning of the term when needed to further modify the root
Gen/o
JIN-oh
Creation, cause
Example: Pathogenic
hydr/o
HAI-droh
Water
Example: hydrophobia, dehydration
morph/o
MOR-foh
Change
Example: morphology
myc/o
MAI-koh
Fungus
Example: dermatomycosis
necr/o
NEK-roh
death
Example: necrosis
orth/o
OR-thoh
straight
Example: orthodontist
path/o
PAH-thoh
suffering, disease
Example: pathology
phag/o
FAY-goh
eat
example: aphasia
plas/o
PLAS-oh
formation
example: hyperplasia
py/o
PAI-oh
pus
example: pyorrhea, pyemia
scler/o
SKLEH-roh
hard
example: scleroderma
sten/o
STIH-noh
narrowing
example: stenosis
troph/o
TROPH-foh
nourishment, development
example: tropology, hypertrophy
xen/o
ZEE-noh
foreign
example: xenograft
Adjective
Noun
Diminutive
often means pertaining to
turn the root into a noun
transform a terms meaning to a smaller version
Adjective
pertaining to
- ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -tic, -ous
Noun
condition
- ia, -ism
example: pneumonia, autism,
Suffix
-y
conidtion, procedure
Diminutive
Suffix meaning small
-icle, -ole, -ule, -ula
medical science
complex suffixes that are professional terms
-iatrics, -iatry
specialist in medicine of
complex suffixes that are professional terms
-iatrist
specialist
complex suffixes that are professional terms
-ist
specialists in the study of
-logist
study of
-logy
Suffixes that describe symptoms, diseases, and conditions
pain
-algia, -dynia
Suffixes that describe symptoms, diseases, and conditions
hernia (a bulging of tissue into an area where it doesnt belong)
-cele
Suffixes that describe symptoms, diseases, and conditions
blood condition
-emia
Suffixes that describe symptoms, diseases, and conditions
presence of
-iasis
inflammation
Suffixes that describe symptoms, diseases, and conditions
-itis
loosen, break down
Suffixes that describe symptoms, diseases, and conditions
-lysis
abnormal softening
-malacia
enlargement
-megaly
resembling
-oid
tumor
-oma
condition
-osis
disease
-pathy
deficiency
-penia
drooping
-ptosis
excessive flow
-rrhage, -rrhagia
flow
-rrhea
rupture
-rrhexis
involuntary contraction
-spasm
Suffixes that mean tests:
puncture
-centesis
Suffixes that mean tests:
written record
-gram
Suffixes that mean tests:
instrument used to prduce a record
-graph
Suffixes that mean tests:
process of recording
-graphy
Suffixes that mean tests:
instrument used to m,easure
-meter
Suffixes that mean tests:
process of measuring
-metry
Suffixes that mean tests:
instrument used to look
-scope
Suffixes that mean tests:
process of looking
-scopy
Complex suffixes that mean treatments:
binding,fixation
-desis
Complex suffixes that mean treatments
removal
-ectomy
Complex suffixes that mean treatments
surgical fixation
-pexy
Complex suffixes that mean treatments
reconstruction
-plasty
Complex suffixes that mean treatments
suture
-rrhaphy
Complex suffixes that mean treatments
creation of an opening
-stomy
Complex suffixes that mean treatments
incision
-tomy
singulars
- a, -ax, -ex, -ix, -is, -ma
- on, -um, -us, -y
plural
- ae, -aces, -ices, -es, -mata
- a, -i, -ies
Negation Prefixes
not
a-, an-
Negation Prefixes
against
anti-, contra-
Negation Prefixes
down, away from
de-
Time or speed prefixes
before
ante-, pre-, pro-
Time or speed prefixes
slow
brady-
Time or speed prefixes
fast
tachy-
Time or speed prefixes
after
post-
Time or speed prefixes
again
re-
Direction or position prefixes
away
ab-
Direction or position prefixes
towards
ad-
Direction or position prefixes:
around
circum-, peri-
Direction or position prefixes
through
dia-,trans-
Direction or position prefixes:
out
e-,ec-,ex-
Direction or position prefixes
outside
ecto-, exo-, extra-
Direction or position prefixes
in, inside
en-, endo-, intra
Direction or position prefixes
upon
epi-
Direction or position prefixes
beneath
sub-
Direction or position prefixes
between
inter-
Size or quantity prefixes
two
bi-
Size or quantity prefixes
half
hemi-, semi-
Size or quantity prefixes
over
hyper-
Size or quantity prefixes
under
hypo-
Size or quantity prefixes
large
macro-
Size or quantity prefixes
small
micro-
Size or quantity prefixes
one
mono-, uni-
Size or quantity prefixes
few
oligo-
Size or quantity prefixes
all
pan-
Size or quantity prefixes
many
poly-, multi-
General prefixes
with, together
con-, syn-, sym-
General prefixes
bad
dys-
