Basic Word Structure
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- aden/o
- gland
- arthr/o
- joint
- bi/o
- life
- carcin/o
- cancerous, cancer
- cardi/o
- heart
- cephal/o
- head
- cerebr/o
- cerebrum (largest part of the brain)
- cis/o
- to cut
- crin/o
- secrete (to form and give off)
- cyst/o
- urinary bladder
- cyt/o
- cell
-
derm/o
dermat/o - skin
- electr/o
- electricity
- encephal/o
- brain
- enter/o
- intestines (usually small intestine)
- erythr/o
- red
- gastr/o
- stomach
- gnos/o
- knowledge
- gynec/o
- woman, female
-
hemat/o
hem/o - blood
- hepat/o
- liver
- iatr/o
- treatment
- leuk/o
- white
- nephr/o
- kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- onc/o
- tumor
- ophthalm/o
- eye
- oste/o
- bone
- path/o
- disease
- ped/o
- child
- psych/o
- mind
- radi/o
- x-rays
- ren/o
- kidney
- rhin/o
- nose
- sarc/o
- flesh
- sect/o
- to cut
- thromb/o
- clot, clotting
- ur/o
- urinary tract, urine
- -ac
- pertaining to
- -al
- pertaining to
- -algia
- pain
- -cyte
- cell
- -ectomy
- excision, removal
- -emia
- blood condition
- -genic
- pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in
- -gram
- record
-
-ic
-ical - pertaining to
- -ion
- process
- -ist
- specialist
- -itis
- inflammation
- -logy
- study of
- -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
- -sis
- state of
- -tomy
- process of cutting, incision
- -y
- process, condition
-
a-
an- - no, not, without
- auto-
- self
- dia-
- through, complete
- endo-
- within
- epi-
- above, upon
- ex-
- out
- exo-
- out
- hyper-
- excessive, above, more than normal
- hypo-
- deficient, below, under, less than normal
- in-
- into, in
- peri-
- surrounding, around
- pro-
- before, forward
- re-
- back, backward, again
- retro-
- behind
- sub-
- below, under
- trans-
- through