root word medical terms Flashcards
abdomin(o)
abdomen
acou
hearing
acr(o)
extremity, peak
aden(o)
gland
adipo
fat
andr(o)
male
angi(o)
blood vessel
ankyl
crooked, fusion
arteri(o)
arteries
arthr(o)
joint
bili
bile
bi(o)
life
blast- or
blast embryonic state
blephar(o)
eyelid
branchi(o)
arm
brady-
slow
calc(i)
heel
carcin(o)
cancer
cardi(o)
cancer
caud
tail
cephal(o)
head
cerebr(o)
cerebrum
chem(o)
chemical
chol(e)
bile
chondr(o)
cartilage
col(i)(o)
colon
cost(o)
rib
cut
skin
cyan(o)
blue
cyst(i)(o)
bladder
cyt(o)
cell
derm
skin
dors(i)(o)
back
encephal(o)
brain
enter(o)
intestine
erythr(o)
red
fasci
bundle
febri
fever
fil
threadlike
galact(o)
milk
gastro
stomach
ger(o) or geront(o)
aging
gloss(o)(a)
tongue
haeme(a)(o) or haemato
blood
hepat(o)
liver
hist(i)(o)
tissue
hydro
water
hyster(o)
uterus
ile(o)
ileum
ischi(o)
hip
jejun(o)
jejunum
kerat(o)
horny tissue, cornea
kine(t)(o)
movement
labio
lips, labia
lact(o)
milk
laryng(o)
larynx
leuk(o)
white
lip(o)
fat
lith(o)
stone
mamm(o)
breast
mast(o)
breast
melan(o)
black
meno
menses
my(o)
muscle
myc(o)
fungus
myel(o)
bone marrow, spinal cord
myx
mucus
nas(o)
nose
nephr(o)
kidney
neur(o)
nerve or nervous system
ocul(o)
eye
onc(o)
tumour (cancerous)
opthalm(o)
eye
orchi(o)
testes
oro
mouth
oste(o)
bone
ot(o)
ear
paed or ped(o)
child
path(o)
disease
pharmaco
drugs
pharyng(o)
pharynx
phleb(o)
vein
phot(o)
light
plasm(o)
liquid part of blood
pleur(o)
pleura, rib, side
pneum(o)
lung
pod(o)
foot
proct(o)
anus or rectum
psych(o)
mind
pyel(o)
kidney
pyr(o)
burning or fever
ren(o)
kidney
rhin(o)
nose
sarc(o)
flesh
scler(o)
hard
soma or somat(o)
body
sten(o)
narrow
tachy
rapid, fast
therm(o)
heat
thorac(o)
chest
thromb(o)
clot
trache(o)
trachea
ur(o)
urinary, urine
vas(o)
vessel, vas deferens
ven(i)(o)
vein
vesic(o)
bladder