Latin Medical Suffixes, Roots and Terminations
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- -itis
- inflammation of...
- -ate
- having a...
- -tom/y
- the act of cutting, an incision
- ophtalm/o
- eye
- -log/y
- the study of...
- nephr/o
- kidney
- -lith
- a stone
- -pen/ia
- deficiancy
- micr/o
- small
- metr/o
- measurement
- -ost/tom/y
- the act of cutting a new and permanent opening
- -ectom/y
- the act of cutting out, an excision
- -scop/e
- an instrument for visual examination
- phon/o
- voice, sound
- cephal/o
- head
- cardi/o
- heart, cardiac portion of the stomach
- laryng/o
- larynx
- -phon/e
- an instrument to render audible
- macr/o
- large
- -ic, -al, -ical, -ac, -ar, -ary, -eal
- froms of adjectives
- hepat/o
- liver
- -cyt/e
- cell
- electr/o
- electricity
- -em/ia or hem/ia (-aemi/ia or haem/ia)
- condition of the blood; presence of blood in
- acr/o
- extremities, points, high, tip
- -or, -er
- indicates an agent, someone who is doing something
- -e
- forms a noun, denotes an instrument
- -meter
- an instrument for measuring
- -ec/tom/ize
- to cut out
- ot/o
- ear
- derm/o, demat/o
- skin
- -path/y
- disease
- lith/o
- stone
- -log/ist
- one who specializes in the study of...
- phylac(t)/o, phylaxi/o
- guard, protection
- arthr/o
- joint
- -gram
- a record
- -ia, -y
- condition characterized by...
- dactyl/o
- finger
- -metr/y
- the act of measurment
- -scop/y
- visual examination
- -graph/y
- the act of recording
- -osis
- abnormal codition characterized by
- petr/o
- rock
- -ad
- in a direction towards
- therm/o
- temperature, heat
- hydr/o
- water
- rhin/o
- nose
- gastr/o
- stomach
- -ous
- containing...
- hemat/o, haemat/o
- blood
- -ist
- one who specializes in
- hem/o, haem/o
- blood
- -alg/ia
- pain, pain in
- cyt/o
- cell
- -ics
- the study of...
- -path/ic
- pertaining to disease
- -graph
- an instrument that records
- encephal/o
- brain
- aque/-
- water
- -oid
- like or resembling
- -om/a, plural: -om/ata
- tumour