Medical Terminology-WestMed Traning
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- -itis
- inflammation
- vir/o
- virus or poison
- -dynia
- pain
- melan/o
- black, dark
- enter/o
- small intestine
- ab-
- away from
- cardi/o, card/o
- heart
- gastr/o
- stomach, belly
-
neur/o, nerv/o,
neur/i - nerve, nerve tissue
- oste/o, oss/i, oss/e, ost/o
- bone
- appendic/o, append/o
- appendix
- crani/o
- skull
- cyt/o, -cyte
- cell
- lith/o, -lith
- stone, calculus
- myc/o, myc/e
- fungus
- nat/i
- birth
- neo-
- new
- -oma
- tumor, neoplasm
- path/o, -pathy
- disease, suffering, feeling, emotion
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- pyel/o
- renal pelvis, bowl of kidney
- pyr/o, pyret/o
- fever or fire
- poli/o
- gray matter of brain and spinal cord
- -al
- pertaining to
- tonsill/o
- tonsil, throat
- -algia
- pain, suffering
- -osis
- abnormal condition, disease
- -malacia
- abnormal softening
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -necrosis
- tissue death
- -sclerosis
- abnormal hardening
- dys-
- bad, difficult, painful
- ad-
- toward or in the direction of
- intra-
- within or inside
- eu-
- good, normal, well, or easy
- hyper-
- excessive or increased
- hypo-
- deficient or decreased
- inter-
- between or among
- sub-
- under, less, or below
- supra-
- above or excessive
- ather/o
- plaque or fatty substance
- ileum
- small intestine
- ilium
- hip bone
- -ologist
- specialist
- geront/o
- old age
- -ology
- the study of
- -ostomy
- to create an artificial opening
- -otomy
- cutting into or a surgical incision
- py/o
- pus
- arteri/o, arter/o
- artery
- col/o
- colon
- my/o
- muscle
- myel/o
- spinal cord, bone marrow
- arthr/o
- joint
- cyan/o
- blue
- erythr/o
- red
- leuk/o
- white