Med Term 1
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- Cyst/o
- A Sac or a Cyst; Urinary Bladder (ex. Cystoscopy, the suffix scopy- means process of visual examination)
- Cyt/o
- Cell (ex. Cytology)
- Derm/o Dermat/o
- Skin (ex. Dermatitis)
- Aden/o
- Gland
- Arthr/o
- Joint
- Bi/o
- Life
- Carcin/o
- Cancerous, Cancer
- Cardi/o
- Heart
- Cephal/o
- Head
- Cerebr/o
- Cerebrum (Largetst part of head)
- Cis/o
- To Cut
- Crin/o
- To Secrete
- Electr/o
- Electricity
- Encephal/o
- Brain (Ex. Electroenchephalogram, Abbreviated EEG)
- Enter/o
- Intestines (Usually Small)
- Erythr/o
- Red (ex. Erythrocyte, suffix means cell. Erythrocytes carry oxygen in the blood.
- Gastr/o
- Stomach (ex. Gasterectomy, suffix means excision or removal, part of the stomach is removed)
- gnos/o
- Knowledge (ex. diagnosis, prefix dia- means complete, suffix sis- means state of, so state of complete knowledge
- gynec/o
- Woman/Female
- Hemat/o Hem/o
- Blood
- Hepat/o
- Liver
- iatr/o
- Treatment, physician
- Leuk/o
- White
- nephr/o
- Kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- onc/o
- tumor (ex. oncology, oncologist)
- Ophthalm/o
- Eye
- Oste/o
- Bone
- Path/o
- Diesease
- Ped/o
- Child
- Psych/o
- Mind
- Radi/o
- X-Rays
- Ren/o
- Kidney
- Rhen/o
- Nose
- Sarc/o
- Flesh
- Sect/o
- To cut
- Thromb/o
- Clot, Clotting
- Ur/o
- Urinary tract, Urine
- -Ac -Al -Ic -Ical
- Pertaining To
- -algia
- Pain
- -cyte
- Cell
- -ectomy
- Excision, Removal
- -emia
- Blood Condition
- -genic
- Produced by, produced in, producing, pertaining to
- -globin
- Protein
- -gram
- record
- -ion
- Process
- -ist
- Specialist
- -itis
- Inflammation
- -logy
- Process of Study
- -oma
- Tumor, Mass, Swelling
- -opsy
- Process of viewing
- -osis
- Condition, usually abnormal (slight increase in numbers when used with blood cells)
- -pathy
- Disease Condition
- -scope
- Instrument to visually examine
- -scopy
- process of visually examining with endoscope
- -sis
- State of, Condition
- -tomy
- process of cutting, incision
- -y
- Process, Condition
- a- an-
- No, not, without (ex. Anemia, decreased number of erythrocytes)
- aut- auto-
- self, own
- dia-
- through, complete
- end- endo-
- within
- epi-
- Above, upon (ex. epigastric, epidermis)
- ex-
- Out (ex. Excision)
- Exo-
- Outside of, Outward (ex. Exocrine gland)
- hyper-
- excessive, more than normal, above
- Hypo-
- deficient, less than normal, under
- in-
- into, in
- Peri-
- surrounding, around
- Pro-
- Before, forward
- Re-
- Back, backward, again
- Retro
- Behind
- Sub-
- Below, under (ex. subhepatic, submarine!)
- Trans-
- across, through