Health Vocabulary P-Z
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- pan-
- all, complete, entire
- pancreat-(o)
- pancreas
- para-
- near, beside, beyond, abnormal, lower half of the body
- -paresis
- paralysis
- -partum
- birth, labor
- path-(ia, o, y)
- disease, abnormal condition
- ped-(ia)
- child
- -penia
- lack of, abnormal reduction in number, deficiency
- pent-(a)
- five
- -pepsia, -pepsis
- digestion
- per-
- through, by, excessive
- peri-
- around
- -pexy
- fixation
- phag-(o)
- eat, ingest
- -phage, -phagia
- to eat, consuming, swallow
- pharyng-(o)
- pharynx, throat
- -phas, -phasia
- speech
- -philia, -philic
- affinity for, attracted to
- phleb-(o)
- vein
- -phobia
- fear
- phon-(o)
- sound, voice
- -phylaxis
- protection, prevention
- -plasty
- surgical correction or repair
- -plegia
- paralysis
- pleuro-
- side, rib
- -pnea
- breathing
- pneum-(o, on)
- lung, pertaining to the lungs, air
- pod-(e, o)
- foot
- poly-
- many, much
- post-
- after, behind
- pre-
- before, in front of
- pro-
- in front of, forward
- proct-(o)
- rectum, rectal, anus
- psora-
- itch
- pseudo-
- false
- psych-(i,o)
- pretaining to the mind
- -ptosis
- drooping down, sagging, downward displacement
- pulmon-(o)
- lung
- py-(o)
- pus
- pyel-(o)
- renal pelvis of kidney
- pyr-(o)
- heat, fever
- quad- (ra, ri)
- four
- radi-(o)
- x-rays, radiation
- re-
- back, again
- rect-(o)
- rectum
- ren-(o)
- kidney
- retro-
- backward, in back, behind
- rhin-(o)
- nose, pertaining to the nose
- -rraphy
- suture of, sewing up of a gap or defect
- -rraghia
- sudden or excessive flow
- -rrhea
- flow, discharge
- -rrhexis
- rupture of, bursting
- salping-(i,o)
- tube, fallopian tube
- sanguin-(o)
- blood
- sarc-(o)
- malignant (cancer) connective tissue
- -sarcoma
- tumor, cancer
- scler-(o)
- hardening
- -sclerosis
- dryness or hardness
- -scope
- examining instrument
- -scopy
- observation
- -sect
- cut
- semi-
- half, part
- sep-(ti)
- poison, rot, infection
- sinistr-(o)
- left
- soma-(t)
- body
- son-(o)
- sound
- -spasm
- involuntary contraction
- sperm-(ato)
- spermatozoa, male germ (sex) cell
- splen-(o)
- spleen
- -stasis
- stoppage, maintaining a constant level
- steno-
- contracted, narrow
- stern-(o)
- sternum, breast bone
- stoma-(t)
- mouth
- -stomy
- artificial opening
- sub-
- less, under, below
- sup-(er, ra)
- above, upon, over, higher in position
- sym-, syn-
- joined, fused, together
- tach-(o,y)
- rapid, fast
- ten-(do,o)
- tendon
- tetra-
- four
- -therapy
- treatment
- therm-(o,y)
- heat
- thorac-(o)
- thorax, chest
- thromb-(o)
- clot, thrombus
- thym-(o)
- thymus gland
- thyr-(o)
- thyroid gland
- -tome
- instrument that cuts
- -tox(ic)
- poison
- trach-(e,i,o)
- trachea, windpipe
- trans-
- across, over, beyond
- tri-
- three
- trich-(o)
- hair
- -trips(y)
- crushing by rubbing or grinding
- -trophy
- nutrition, growth, development
- tympan-(o)
- eardum, tympanic membrane
- ultra-
- beyond, excess
- uni-
- one
- ur-(o)
- urine, urinary tract
- ureter-(o)
- ureter (tube from kidney to bladder)
- urethr-(o)
- urethra (tube from bladder to urinary meatus)
- -uria
- urine
- uter-(o)
- uterus, womb
- vas-(o)
- vessel, duct
- ven-(a)
- vein
- ventro-
- to the front, abdomen