Medical Terminology - Combining Forms
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- acanth(o)
- spiny; thorny
- actin(o), phot(o)
- light
- aer(o)
- air; gas
- alge, algesi, algio, algo
- pain
- amyl(o)
- starch
- andro
- masculine
- athero
- plaque; fatty substance
- bacill(i)
- bacilli
- bacteri(o)
- bacteria
- bar(o)
- weight; pressure
- bas(o), basi(o)
- base
- bio, vivi, zo(o)
- life
- blasto
- immature cells
- cac(o)
- bad; ill
- calc(o), calci(o)
- calcium
- carcin(o)
- cancer
- chem(o)
- chemical
- chlor(o)
- chlorine, green
- chondrio, chondro
- cartilage, grainy, gritty
- chore(o)
- dance
- chrom, chromat, chromo
- color
- chrono
- time
- chyl(o)
- chyle, a digestive juice
- chym(o)
- chyme, semifluid present during digestion
- cine(o), kin(o), kine, kinesi(o), kineso
- movement
- coni(o)
- dust
- crin(o)
- secrete
- cry(o)
- cold
- crypt(o)
- hidden; obscure
- cyan(o)
- blue
- cycl(o)
- circle; cycle; ciliary body
- cyst(o), cysti
- bladder, cyst, cystic duct
- cyt(o)
- cell
- dextr(o)
- right, toward the right
- dips(o)
- thirst
- dors(o), dorsi
- back
- dynamo
- force; energy
- echo
- reflected sound
- electr(o)
- electricity; electric
- eosin(o), erythr(o)
- red
- ergo
- work
- esthesio
- sensation, perception
- ethmo
- ethmoid bone
- etio
- cause
- fibr(o)
- fiber
- fluor(o)
- light; luminous; fluorine
- fungi
- fungus
- galact(o), lact(o), lacti
- milk
- gen(o)
- producing; being born
- gero, geront(o)
- old age
- gluco
- glucose
- glyco
- sugars
- gonio
- angle
- granulo
- granular
- gyn(o), gyne, gyneco
- women
- home(o), homo
- same; constant
- hydr(o)
- hydrogen, water
- hypn(o), somn(o), somni
- sleep
- iatr(o)
- physician; treatment
- ichthy(o)
- dry; scaly; fish
- idio
- distinct; unknown
- immun(o)
- safe; immune
- kal(i)
- potassium
- karyo, nucle(o)
- nucleus
- ket(o), keton(o)
- ketone; acetone
- kyph(o)
- humpback
- latero
- lateral, to one side
- lepto
- light, frail, thin
- leuk(o)
- white
- lip(o)
- fat
- lith(o)
- stone
- log(o)
- speech, words, thought
- lys(o)
- dissolution
- macr(o), meg(a), megal(o)
- large
- medi(o)
- middle; medial plane
- melan(o)
- black; dark
- mes(o)
- middle; median
- micr(o)
- small; one-millionth; tiny
- mio
- smaller; less
- morph(o)
- structure; shape
- narco
- sleep; numbness
- necr(o)
- death; dying
- noct(i), nyct(o)
- night
- normo
- normal
- oncho, onco
- tumor
- orth(o)
- straight; normal
- oxy
- sharp; acute; oxygen
- pachy
- thick
- path(o)
- disease
- phago
- eating; devouring; swallowing
- pharmaco
- drugs; medicine
- phon(o)
- sound; voice; speech
- physi, physio
- physical; natural
- physo
- air; gas; growing
- phyt(o)
- plant
- plasma, plasmo
- formative; plasma
- poikilo
- varied; irregular
- pseud(o)
- false
- pyo
- pus
- pyreto
- fever
- pyro
- fever; fire; heat
- radio
- radiation; x-ray; radius
- salping(o), syring(o)
- tube
- schisto, schiz(o)
- split
- scler(o)
- hardness; hardening
- scolio
- crooked; bent
- scoto
- darkness
- sidero
- iron
- sito
- food; grain
- somat(o)
- body
- sono
- sound
- spasmo
- spasm
- spher(o)
- round; spherical
- spir(o)
- breath; breathe
- squamo
- scale; squamous
- staphyl(o)
- grapelike clusters
- steno
- narrowness
- stere(o)
- three-dimensional
- strepto
- twisted chains; streptococci
- styl(o)
- peg-shaped
- tel(o), tele(o)
- distant; end; complete
- terato
- monster (as a malformed fetus)
- therm(o)
- heat
- tono
- tension; pressure
- top(o)
- place; topical
- tox(i), toxico, toxo
- poison; toxin
- tropho
- food; nutrition
- xanth(o)
- yellow
- xeno
- stranger
- xer(o)
- dry
- xiph(o)
- sword; xiphoid
- zym(o)
- fermentation; enzyme