Language of Medicine - combining forms
Terms
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- abdomin/o
- abdomen
- acr/o
- extremities, top, extreme point
- acu/o
- sharp, severe, sudden
- aden/o
- gland
- adip/o
- fat
- agglutin/o
- clumping, sticking together
- agor/a
- marketplace
- amni/o
- amnion (sac surrounding embryo in uterus)
- angi/o
- vessel
- anter/o
- front
- arthr/o
- joint
- axill/o
- armpit
- bi/o
- life
- blephar/o
- eyelid
- bol/o
- to cast (throw)
- bronch/o
- bronchial tubes
- carcin/o
- cancerous, cancer
- cardi/o
- heart
- carp/o
- wrist bones
- cephal/o
- head
- cerebr/o
- cerebrum (largest part of the brain)
- cervic/o
- neck (of the body or of the uterus)
- chrom/o
- color
- chron/o
- time
- cib/o
- meals
- cis/o
- to cut
- coagul/o
- clotting
- coccyg/o
- coccyx (tailbone)
- col/o
- colon (large intestine)
- cost/o
- rib
- crani/o
- skull
- crin/o
- secrete (to form and give off)
- cutane/o
- skin
- cyst/o
- urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst (sac containing fluid)
- cyt/o
- cell
- dactyl/o
- fingers, toes
- derm/o
- skin
- dermat/o
- skin
- dist/o
- far, distant
- dors/o
- back portion of the body
- duct/o
- to lead, carry
- electr/o
- electricity
- encephal/o
- brain
- enter/o
- intestines (usually the small intestine)
- eosin/o
- red, dawn, rosy
- erythr/o
- red
- flex/o
- bend
- furc/o
- forking, branching
- gastr/o
- stomach
- gloss/o
- tongue
- glyc/o
- sugar
- gnos/o
- knowledge
- granul/o
- granules
- gynec/o
- woman, female
- hem/o
- blood
- hemoglobin/o
- hemoglobin
- hepat/o
- liver
- hist/o
- tissue
- hydr/o
- water, fluid
- iatr/o
- treatment
- ili/o
- ilium (part of the pelvic bone)
- immun/o
- protection
- inguin/o
- groin
- isch/o
- to hold back
- is/o
- same, equal
- kary/o
- nucleus
- lapar/o
- abdomen, abdominal wall
- laryng/o
- larynx (voice box)
- later/o
- side
- leuk/o
- white
- lumb/o
- lower back (side and back between the ribs and the pelvis)
- lymph/o
- lymph (clear fluid)
- mamm/o
- breast
- mast/o
- breast
- medi/o
- middle
- mon/o
- one, single
- morph/o
- shape, form
- mort/o
- death
- muc/o
- mucus
- myel/o
- spinal cord, bone marrow
- my/o
- muscle
- nat/i
- birth
- necr/o
- death (of cells or body)
- nect/o
- to bind, tie, connect
- nephr/o
- kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- neutr/o
- neutrophil (type of white blood cell, neither base nor acid)
- norm/o
- rule, order
- nucle/o
- nucleus
- onc/o
- tumor
- ophthalm/o
- eye
- oste/o
- bone
- ot/o
- ear
- ox/o
- oxygen
- path/o
- disease
- ped/o
- child
- pelv/o
- hip, pelvic cavity
- peritone/o
- peritoneum
- phag/o
- to eat, swallow
- phleb/o
- vein
- plas/o
- formation, development
- pleur/o
- pleura (membranes surrounding lungs and adjacent to chest wall muscles)
- pneumon/o
- lungs
- poikil/o
- varied, irregular
- poster/o
- back, behind
- proxim/o
- nearest
- psych/o
- mind
- pulmon/o
- lungs
- radi/o
- x-rays
- rect/o
- rectum
- ren/o
- kidney
- rhin/o
- nose
- sacr/o
- sacrum
- sarc/o
- flesh
- sect/o
- to cut
- seps/o
- infection
- sider/o
- iron
- somn/o
- sleep
- son/o
- sound
- spher/o
- globe, round
- spin/o
- spine, backbone
- splen/o
- spleen
- staphyl/o
- clusters
- strept/o
- twisted chains
- the/o
- to put, place
- thel/o
- nipple
- thorac/o
- chest
- thromb/o
- clot, clotting
- thyr/o
- shield
- tonsill/o
- tonsils
- top/o
- place, position, location
- trache/o
- trachea, windpipe
- umbilic/o
- navel, umbilicus
- ur/o
- urinary tract, urine
- urethr/o
- urethra
- ven/o
- vein
- ventr/o
- belly side of the body
- vertebr/o
- vertebrae, backbones
- viscer/o
- internal organs
- tox/o
- poison
- bas/o
- base (alkaline, opposite of acid)
- hemat/o
- blood
- lymphaden/o
- lymph node (gland)
- thym/o
- thymus gland