medical termionolgy
Terms
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- aden/o
- gland
- arthr/o
- joint
- bi/o
- life
- carcin/o
- cancer
- cardi/o
- heart
- cephal/o
- cerebrum
- cis/o
- to cut
- crin/o
- secrete
- cyst/o
- urinary bladder
-
derm/o
dermat/o - skin
- electr/o
- electricty
- encephal/o
- brain
- enter/o
- intestines (usually the small intestine)
- erythr/o
- red
- gastr/o
- stomach
- gnos/o
- knowledge
- gynec/o
- female/woman
-
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 cutting, incision
- -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
- ex-
- out
- exo-
- out
- hyper-
- excessive
- hypo-
- below
- in-
- into, in
- peri-
- surrounding, around
- pro-
- berore, forward
- re-
- back, backward, again
- retro-
- behind
- sub-
- below, under
- trans-
- across, through
- abdomni/o
- abdomen
- adip/o
- fat
- anter/o
- front
- bol/o
- to cast (throw)
- chondr/o
- cartliage, (type of connective tissue)
- chrom/o
- color
- coccyg/o
- coccys (tailbone)
- crain/o
- skull
- cyt/o
- cell
- dist/o
- far, distant
- dors/o
- back protion of the body
- hist/o
- tissue
- ili/o
- ilium (part of the pelvic bone)
- inguin/o
- groin
- kary/o
- nucleus
- later/o
- side
- lumb/o
- lower back
- medi/o
- middle
- nucle/o
- nucleus
- pelv/o
- hip, pelvic cavity
- poster/o
- back, behind
- proxim/o
- nearest
- sacr/o
- sacrum
- spin/o
- spine, backbone
- thel/o
- nipple
- thorac/o
- chest
- trache/o
- trachea, windpipe
- umbilic/o
- navel, umbilicus
- ventr/o
- belly side of the body
- vertebr/o
- vertebrae, backbones
- viscer/o
- internal organs
- ana-
- up
- cata-
- down
- inter-
- between
- meta-
- change
- -eal
- pertaining to
- -iac
- pertaining to
- -ior
- pertaining to
- -ism
- process
- -ose
- pertaining to, full of
- -plasm
- formation
- -somes
- bodies
- -type
- picture, classification
- acr/o
- ectremities, top, extreme point
- acu/o
- sharp, severe, sudden
- agor/a
- market place
- amni/o
- amnion (sac surrounding the embryo in the uterus)
- angi/o
- vessel
- arteri/o
- artery
- axill/o
- armpit
- blephar/o
- eyelid
- bronch/o
- bronchial tubes
- chem/o
- drugs, chemical
- chron/o
- time
- col/o
- colon (large intestines)
- hydr/o
- water
- isch/o
- to hold back
- lapar/o
- abdonem, abdominal walls
- laryng/o
- larynx (voice box)