Chapter 1 Medical Terminology 2
Terms
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- crin/o
- secrete
- cis/o
- to cut
- enter/o
- small intestines
- ped/o
- child
- carcin/o
- cancer
- path/o
- disease
- thromb/o
- clot, clotting
- encephal/o
- brain
- electr/o
- electricity
-
derm/o
dermat/o - skin
- sect/o
- to cut
- radi/o
- x-ray
- arthr/o
- joint
- leuk/o
- white
- iatr/o
- treatment
- hepat/o
- liver
- oste/o
- bone
- ophthalm/o
- eye
- cerebr/o
- cerebrum, largest part of the brain
- bi/o
- life
- glyc/o
- sugar
- sarc/o
- flesh
- ren/o
- kidney
- gynec/o
- woman, female
- log/o
- study
- cyt/o
- cell
- cardi/o
- heart
- rhin/o
- nose
- ur/o
- urinary tract, urine
- neur/o
- nerve
- aden/o
- gland
- erythr/o
- red
- psych/o
- mind
- cephal/o
- head
- gnos/o
- knowledge
- onc/o
- tumor
- cyst/o
- urinary bladder
- gastr/o
- stomach
-
hem/o
hemat/o - blood
- nephr/o
- kidney
- peri-
- around, surrounding
- trans-
- across, through
- auto-
- self
-
ex-
exo- - out
- retro-
- behind
- re-
- again, back, backward
- epi-
- above, upon
- hyper-
- excessive, above abnormal
- pro-
- before
- sub-
- below, under
- hypo-
- deficient, below less than normal
- endo-
- within
-
a-
an- - no, not without
- in-
- into, in
- dia-
- thorough, complete
- -genic
- pertaining to producing, produced by or produced in
- -logy
- study of
- -pathy
- disease condition
- -emia
- blood condition
- -gram
- record
- -ist
- specialist
- -ectomy
- excision, removal
- -itis
- inflammation
- -algia
- pain
- -cyte
- cell
- -ium
- structure or membrane
- -scopy
- process of visually examining
- -opsy
- process of viewing
- -sis
- state of
- -y
- process, condition
- -ion
- process
- -osis
- condition usually abnormal
- -tomy
- process of cutting, incision
- -oma
- tumor, mass swelling
- -scope
- instrument to visually examine
- -al
- pertaining to
-
-ic
-ical - pertaining to
- -ac
- pertaining to