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Lng of Med Ch 1
Basic Root Words, Suffixes, and Prefixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 | to secrete |
| cyst/o | urinary bladder |
| cyt/o | cell |
| derm/o | skin |
| dermat/o | skin |
| electr/o | electricity |
| encephal/o | brain |
| enter/o | sm. intestines |
| erythr/o | red |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| gnos/o | knowledge |
| gynec/o | woman, female |
| hemat/o | blood |
| hem/o | blood |
| hepat/o | liver |
| iatr/o | treatment, physician |
| 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 | p2 |
| -al | p2 |
| -algia | pain |
| -cyte | cell |
| -ectomy | removal, excision |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -genic | p2, producing, produced by, or produced in |
| -globin | protein |
| -gram | record |
| -ic, -ical | p2 |
| -ion | process |
| -ist | specialist |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -logy | process of study |
| -oma | tumor, mass, swelling |
| -opsy | process of viewing |
| -osis | condition, usually abnormal |
| -pathy | disease condition |
| -scope | instrument to visually examine |
| -scopy | process of visually examining with an endoscope |
| -sis | state of, condition |
| -tomy | process of cutting, incision |
| -y | process, condition |
| a- | no, not, without |
| an- | no, not, without |
| aut- | self, own |
| auto- | self, own |
| dia- | through, complete |
| end- | within |
| endo- | within |
| epi- | above |
| ex- | out |
| exo- | outside of, outward |
| hyper- | excessive, above, more then normal |
| hypo- | deficient, below, less then normal |
| in- | into, in |
| peri- | surrounding, around |
| pro- | before, forward |
| re- | back, backward, again |
| retro- | behind |
| sub- | below, under |
| trans- | across, through |
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