medical terminolgy
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- punture
- centesis
- excision, removal
- ectomy
- forming an opening (mouth)
- -stomy
- instrument to cut
- -tome
- incision, cut into
- -tomy
- binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)
- -desis
- suspension, fixation (of an organ)
- -pexy
- suture
- -rrhaphy
- surgical repair
- -plasty
- break, or fracture
- -clasis
- seperation, destruction, loosening
- -lysis
- crushing
- -tripsy
- pain
- -algia or dynia
- hernia, swelling
- -cele
- dilation, expansion
- -ectasis
- vomiting
- -emesis
- blood condition
- -emia
- forming, producing, origin
- -geneisis
- record, a writing
- -gram
- instrument for recording
- -graph
- process of recording
- -graphy
- abnormal condition (produced by someting specified)
- -iasis
- inflammation
- -itis
- stone, calculus
- -lith
- specialist in the study of
- -logist
- study of
- -logy
- softening
- -malacia
- enlargement
- -megaly
- instrument for measuring
- -meter
- act of measuring
- -metry
- resembling
- -old
- tumor
- -oma
- abnormal condition (used to primarily with blood cells)
- -osis
- to bear (offspring)
- -para
- partial paralysis
- -paresis
- disease
- -pathy
- decrease, dificiency
- -penia
- eating, swallowing
- -phagia
- speech
- -phasia
- attraction to
- -philia
- fear
- -phobia
- paralysis or stroke
- -plegia
- formation, production
- -poiesis
- prolapse, downward displacement
- -ptosis
- bursting forth
- -rrhage or -rrhagia
- discharge or flow
- -rrhea
- rupture
- -rrhexis
- instrument to view or examine
- -scope
- visual examination
- -scopy
- involuntary contraction, twitching
- -spasm
- standing still
- -stasis
- narrowing stricture
- -stenosis
- poison
- -toxic
- development, nourishment
- -trophy
- condition
-
-ia
-ism
-y - treatment, medicine
- -iatrics, -iatry
- specialist
- -ist
- small, minute, little
-
-icle
-ole
-ula
-ule - before, in front
-
ante
pre
pro - above, upon
- epi-
- under, below
-
hypo-
infr-
sub- - betweew
- inter-
- middle
- medi/o
- after, behind
- post-
- backward, behind
- retro-
- two
- bi-
- double, twofold
-
dipl-
diplo- - half
-
hemi-
semi- - excessive, above normal
- hyper-
- large
- macro-
- small
- mircro-
- one
-
mono-
uni- - many, much
-
multi-
poly- - first
- primi-
- four
- quadri-
- three
- tri-
- without, not
-
a-
an- - in, not
-
im-
in- - from, away from
- ab-
- toward
- ad-
- around
- peri-
- out, out from
-
ex-
ex- - through, across
-
dia-
trans- - outside, outward
-
ecto-
exo-
extra- - in, within
-
endo-
intra- - near, beside, beyond
- para-
- above, excessive
-
super-
supra- - against
-
anti-
contra- - slow
- brady-
- bad, painful, difficult
- dys-
- good, normal
- eu-
- different
- hetero-
- same
- homo-
- bad
- mal-
- all
- pan-
- false
- pseudo
- union, together, joined
- syn-
- rapid
- tachy-
- cell
- cyt/o
- tissue
- hist/o
- nucleus
- nucle/o
- anterior, front
- anter/o
- tail
- caud/o
- far, farthest
- dist/o
- back, (of body)
- dors/o
- lower, below
- infer/o
- side, to one side
- later/o
- back (of body), behind, posterior
- poster/o
- near, nearest
- proxim/o
- belly, belly-side
- ventr/o
- abdomen
- abdomin/o
- extremely
- acr/o
- groin
- inguin/o
- loin
- lumb/o
- navel
- omphal/o
- pelvis
-
pelv/i
pelv/o - white
-
albin/o
leuc/o
leuk/o - black, coal
- anthrac/o
- green
- chlor/o
- yellow
-
cirrh/o
jaund/o
xanth/o - blue
- cyan/o
- red
-
erythem/o
erythro/o
rube/o - black
- melan/o
- gray
- poli/o
- band
- fasci/o
- same, alike
- home/o
- unknown, peculiar
- idi/o
- radiation, xray
- radi/o
- body
- somat/o
- internal organs, visera
- viscer/o
- foriegn, strange
- xen/o
- dry
- xer/o
- knowing
- -gnosis
- other, differing from usual
- allo-
- below, under
- infra-
- upper, above
- super-
- across, through
- trans-
- excess, beyond
- ultra-