Med Terms Chapter 1 Flashcards
aden/o
gland (root)
arthr/o
joint (root)
bi/o
life (root)
carcin/o
cancer/cancerous (root)
cardi/o, coron/o
heart (root)
cephal/o
head (root)
encephal/o
brain (root)
cerebr/o
cerebrum (root)
cyt/o
cell (root)
cyst/o
urinary bladder (root)
derm/o, dermat/o
skin (root)
electr/o
electricity (root)
enter/o
intestines (usually small intestine) (root)
erythr/o
red (root)
gastr/o
stomach (root)
gnos/o
knowledge (root)
gynec/o
woman,female (root)
hemat/o, hem/o
blood (root)
hepat/o
liver (root)
lapar/o
abdomen (root)
leuk/o
white (root)
nephr/o
kidney (root)
neur/o
nerves (root)
onc/o
tumor, cancerous (root)
optic/o, opt/o, ophthalm/o
eye (root)
oste/o
bone (root)
path/o
disease (root)
psych/o
mind (root)
rhin/o
nose (root)
sarc/o
flesh (root)
thromb/o
clot, clotting (root)
-al, -ic, -ior, -ical
pertaining to (suffix)
-algia
condition of pain (suffix)
-tomy
process of cutting into, incision (suffix)
-ectomy
excision, removal (suffix)
-emia
blood condition (suffix)
-ia, -ism, -sis
condition, process, state of (suffix)
-osis
abnormal condition (suffix)
-globin
protein (suffix)
-gram
record (suffix)
-itis
inflammation (suffix)
-logist
specialist in the study (suffix)
-logy
process of study (suffix)
-oma
tumor, mass, swelling (suffix)
-opsy
to view, process of viewing (suffix)
-penia
deficiency (suffix)
-poiesis
formation (suffix)
-scope
instrument of visual examination (suffix)
-scopy
process of visual examination (suffix)
-cyte
cell (suffix)
a-, an-
no, not (prefix)
aut-
self (prefix)
dia-
through, complete (prefix)
dys-
painful, bad, difficult, abnormal (prefix)
endo-, en-
within, in, inner (prefix)
exo-
out, outside (prefix)
hyper-
too much, excessive, above, more than normal (prefix)
hypo-, sub-
too little, deficient, below, less than normal (prefix)
peri-
surrounding (prefix)
pro-, pros-
before, forward (prefix)
re-, retro-
back, behind (prefix)
crin/o
secrete (root)