Medical Terminology Flashcards
Angi/o
Vessel
Arteri/o
Artery
Arthr/o
Joint
Aut/o
Self
Bi/o
Life
Carcin/o
Cancer
Cardi/o
Heart
Chondr/o
Cartilage
Derm/o, dermat/o
Skin
Dur/o
Hard
Enter/o
Intestine
Erythr/o
Red
Gastr/o
Stomach
Glyc/o, gluc/o
Sugar
Hemat/o, hem/o
Blood
Hepat/o
Liver
Hist/o
Tissue
Hyster/o
Uterus
Hydr/o
Water
Leuk/o
White
Lingu/o
Tongue
Lip/o
Fat
Mening/o
Membrane
Morph/o
Form
My/o, sarc/o
Muscle
Nephr/o, ren/o
Kidney
Neur/o
Nerve
Ocul/o
Eye
Os, oste/o
Bone
Ot/o
Ear
Path/o
Pathology, disease
Phag/o
To eat
Pneum/o
Lung, air
Scler/o
Hard
Stat/o
Stand still
Therm/o
Heat
A-, an-
Lack of, without
Ante-
Before
Anti-
Against
Bi-
Two, double
Brady-
Slow
Circum-
Around
Co-, con-
With, together
Di, dipl
Two
Dys-
Painful, bad, difficult
Ect/o-
Outer,outside
End/o-
Within, inside
Epi-
Upon
Extra-
Outside, beyond
Hemi-
Half
Heter/o-
Other
Home/o-
Same, steady
Hyper-
Beyond, excessive
Hypo-
Below, deficient
Infra-
Below
Inter-
Between
Intra-
Within, inside
Macr-
Large, giant
Meta-
Middle
Micr-
Small
Mono-
One
Neo-
New
Para-
Near, beyond, beside
Peri-
Around
Poly-
Many
Pre-, pro-
Before
Pseud/o-
False
Semi-
Half
Super-, supra-
Above
Sym-, syn-
With, together
Tachy-
Fast
Trans-
Across, through
-ac, -ai, -ic
pertaining to
-algia
painful condition
-asis, -osis
condition or state of
-cyte
cell
-ectomy
cut out, removal of
-emia
blood condition
-genic
producing
-gram
record, recording
-ician
person associated with
-itis
inflamation of
-logy, -ology
science or study of
-lysis
dissolving, separating
-mers
parts
-oma
tumor
-ostomy
create opening
-pathy
disease
-penia
deficiency
-plegia
paralysis
-pnea
breath
-poiesis
making, forming
-rrhage
excessive flow
-stasis
stand still, resting state
-trophy
relating to nutrition or growth
-uria
urine