Medical Terminology Flashcards
aer
air, gas
ather
plaque, fatty substance
blast
immature cell
chondrio, chodro
cartilage, grainy, gritty
cyst(o), cysti
bladder
cyt
cell
glue, glyc
glucose, sugar
hydr
water
lip
fat
salping
tube
alges, algi, alg
pain
cry
cold
kin
movement
phon
sound
therm
heat
andr
masculine
crypt
hidden, obscure
eosin
red
gyn, gyne, gynec
women
home, hom
same
ichthy
dry, scaly, fishy
idi(o)
distinct, unkown
Macr, meg, megal
large
melan
dark
micr
small
pseud
false
scler
hardness
sten
narrow
xanth
yellow
anteri
front
dextr
right
dors
back
later
lateral, to one side
medi
middle
mes
middle, median
orth
straight, normal
crin
secrete
gen
producing
log
speech, word, thought
phago
eating, devouring, swallowing
spri
breath, breathe
carcin
cancer
pachy
thick
path
disease
pyr
fever, fire, heat
bar
weight
chrono
time
eti
cause
fibr
fiber
galact, lact, lacti
milk
lith
stone
lys
dissolution, destruction
necr
death, dying
py(o)
pus
troph
food, nutrition
brachy
short
hemi
half
iso
equal, same
mega, megalo
large
pan, pant(o)
all
ab, abs
away from
ad
toward
ana
up, toward
circum
around
di, Dif, dir, dis
not, seperated
ect(o)
outside
epi
over
ex
out of
exo, extra
outside
infra
beneath
inter
between
intra
within
mes(o)
middle
para, peri
near, adjacent, beside
retro
behind, backward
sub
less than, under
supra
above, over
trans
across, through
ante
before
post
after
pre
before
primi
first
a, an
without
anit
against
brady
slow
co, col, con
together
contra
against
dys
abnormal, difficult, painful
eu
well, good, normal
hyper
above normal
hypo
below normal
mal
bad, inadequate
syl, syn sys
together
tachy
fast
ultra
beyond, excessive
auto
self
meta
behind, after, beyond
par(a)
beside, abnormal, involving two parts
algia
pain
asthenia
weakness
dynia
pain
esthesia
sensation
kinesis, kinesis
movement
phobia
fear
phonia
sound
phoria
feeling, carrying
cele
hernia
cytosis
condition of cells
ectasia, ectasis
expanding, dilating
edema
swelling
iasis
pathological condition, presence of
ism
disease, conditon
itis
inflammation
lithiasis
presence of stones
mealy
enlargement
oma
tumor
opia, opsia
vision
osis
condition, state, process
paresis
slight paralysis, feeling of numbness or tingling
pathy
disease
penia
deficiency, small
philia
attraction, affinity for
phrenia
of the mind
plegia, pelgic
paralysis
ptosis
falling down, drooping
rrhea
flow, discharge
rhagia
excessive bleeding
rrhexis
rupture
trophic, trophy
nutrition
blast
immature, forming
cidal, cide
destroying, killing
crine
secreting
malacia
softening
pepsia
digestion
phage, phagia
eating, devouring
phagy
swallowing
phasia
speaking
plasia
formation, development, growth
pnea
breath
poiesis
production, formation
para
bearing
porosis
lessening in density
rrhage
discharging heavily
rhea
flowing
somnia
sleep
stalsis
contration
stasis
stopping, constant
stenosis
narrowing
cyte
cell
derma
skin
emir, emic
blood
global, globulin
protein
oxia
oxygen
plasm
thing formed
uria
urine
ectomy
removal of all or part of an organ or body part
lysis, lytic
destruction
ostomy
opening to the outside of the body
pexy
fixation
plasty
surgical repair
graphs
surgical surturing
static, stasis
maintaining a state
stomy
opening
tome, tomy
cutting, cutting instrument
gen, gensis
producer, origin
gram
a recording
graph
a recording instrument
meter, metry
measuring device, measurement
pheresis
removal
phil
attraction, affinity for
scope, scopy
instrument used for observing or measuring
class, clast
breaking, breaking instrument
ic, ics,
pertaining to, treatment, practice, body of knowledge
logs, logy
one who studies, study, practice
oid
resembling
phylasis
prevention, protection
plegic
one who is paralyzed
state
agent that maintains protection
trophic, tropic
turing towards
version
turning