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IHC Med Term
IHC Med Term: Root words and Suffix
Term | Definition |
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axill/o | armpit |
cardi/o | heart |
cerebr/o | brain |
cyt/o | cell |
cost/o | ribs |
crani/o | skull |
adip/o | fatty |
gastr/o | stomach |
vertabr/o | vertebrea |
my/o, muscul/o | muscle |
nas/o, rihn/o | nose |
neur/o | nerves |
opthalm/o, occul/o | eye |
oste/o | bone |
pharyng/o | throat |
pneum/o | lung |
trache/o | trachea |
thorac/o | chest cavity |
ven/o, phleb/o | veins |
-centisis | puncture |
-ectomy | excision, removal |
-stomy | forming an opening |
-otomy | incision, cut into |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-lysis | seperation, destruction, loosening |
-tripsy | crushing |
-algia or -dynia | pain |
-emia | blood condition |
-gram | record, a writting |
-graph | instrument for recording |
-graphy | process for recording |
-iasis | abnormal condition |
-itis | inflamation |
-lithiasis | stone calculus |
-logist | specialist in the study of |
-logy | study of |
-malacia | sofening |
-megaly | enlargement |
-meter | instrument for measuring |
-oid | similar to, like something else |
-oma | tumor |
-osis | abnormal condition, increasing |
-plegia | paralysis, stroke |
-poiesis | formation, production |
-rrhage or -rrhagia | bursting forth |
-rrhea | discharge, flow |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-sclerosis | hardening |
-paresis | paralysis |
-pathy | disease |
-phagia | swallowing |
phasia | talking |
-pnea | breathing, lungs |
-scope | instrument to observe with |
-scopy | visual examination |
-stasis | standing still |
-stenosis | narrowing |