A syllable, group of syllables, or word joined to the beginning of another word to alter its meaning or create a new word.
Prefix
The subject part of the word consisting of a syllable, group of syllables, or word that is the basis (or word base) for the meaning of the medical word.
Root Word
A word or root word that may or may not use the connecting vowel o when it is used as an element in a medical word formation.
Combing Form
A vowel, usually an o, used to connect a word or root word to the appropriate suffix or to another root word.
Combining Vowel
A syllable, a group of syllables, or a word added at the end of a root word to change its meaning, give it grammatical function, or form a new word.
Suffix
Two or more words or root words combined to make a new word.
Compound Word
To puncture, perforate, or tap - permitting withdrawal of substances
-Centesis
To excise or surgically remove
-Ectomy
use, subject to
-Ize
Fixation or suturing ( a stabilizing type of repair)
-Pexy
to shape, the surgical formation of, or plastic surgery (meaning “to improve function, to relieve pain, or for cosmetic reasons.”)
-Plasty
To surgically repair by joining in a seam or by suturing together
-Rrhaphy
To make a new, artificial opening in a hollow organ (to outside of the body), or to make a new opening between two hollow organs
-Stomy
To incise or cut into (making an incision)
-Tomy
To puncture, perforate, or tap – permitting withdrawal of substances (e.g. fluid,, air)
-Centesis
To exercise or surgically remove
-Ectomy
use, subject to
-Ize
fixation or suturing (a stabilizing type of repair)
-Pexy
Pain
-Algia
Vomit
-Emesis
Blood condition
-Emia
Infestation or infection with, a condition characterized by
-esis, -iasis, -asis
Development, origin
-Genesis
a state or condition, a fact of being, result of a process
-ism
