Medical Terminology
prefix and suffix
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- mono
- one
- y
- condition, process
- icle
- small
- epi
- above, upon
- lith
- stone, calculus
- hypo
- under, below, deficient
- emia
- blood condition
- phagia
- eating, swallowing
- ia
- condition
- genesis
- forming, producing, origin
- supra
- above, excessive, superior
- ectasis
- dilation, expansion
- metry
- act of measuring
- eu
- good, normal
- sub
- under, below
- esis
- condition
- uni
- one
- pexy
- fixation (of an organ)
- plasia
- formation, growth
- mal
- bad
- tri
- three
- ician
- specialist
- rrhexis
- rupture
- tripsy
- crushing
- ad
- toward
- syn
- union, together, joined
- trans
- through, across
- hyper
- excessive, above normal
- ist
- specialist
- rrhagia
- bursting of
- dia
- through, across
- tomy
- incision
- penia
- decrease, deficiency
- ole
- small
- emesis
- vomiting
- megaly
- enlargement
- pathy
- disease
- ecto
- outside, outward
- phobia
- fear
- super
- upper, above
- ism
- condition
- iasis
- abnormal condition (produced by something specific)
- brady
- slow
- pan
- all
- phasia
- speech
- centesis
- Surgical puncture
- rrhage
- bursting of
- inter
- between
- ectomy
- excision, removal
- multi
- many, much
- plegia
- paralysis
- hemi
- one half
- extra
- outside, outward
- tome
- instrument to cut
- bi
- two
- hetero
- different
- homo
- same
- pro
- before, in front of
- graph
- instrument for recording
- ab
- from, away from
- macro
- large
- quadri
- four
- oma
- tumor
- lysis
- separation; destruction; loosening
- endo
- in, within
- osis
- abnormal condition; increase (blood cells)
- rrhaphy
- suture
- plasm
- formation, growth
- malacia
- softening
- intra
- in, within
- scopy
- visual examination
- a
- without, not
- dys
- bad, painful, difficult
- algia
- pain
- para
- near, beside, beyond
- dipl
- double
- circum
- around
- scope
- instrument of examining
- gram
- record, writing
- diplo
- double
- homeo
- same
- itis
- inflammation
- ultra
- excess, beyond
- edema
- swelling
- dynia
- pain
- stomy
- forming an opening
- contra
- against
- pre
- before, in front of
- stenosis
- narrowing, stricture
- infra
- under, below
- retro
- backward, behind
- graphy
- process of recording
- trophy
- nourishment, development
- tachy
- rapid
- plasty
- surgical repair
- desis
- binding, fixation (of a joint)
- spasm
- involuntary contraction, twitching
- peri
- around
- clasis
- to break; surgical fracture
- ule
- small
- iatry
- medicine, treatment
- rrhea
- discharge, flow
- micro
- small
- anti
- against
- pseudo
- false
- toxic
- poison
- exo
- outside, outward
- gen
- forming, producing, origin
- meter
- instrument for measuring
- poly
- many, much
- an
- without, not
- post
- after, behind
- primi
- first
- cele
- hernia, swelling