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Medical terminology
Term | Definition |
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A- or An- | Without |
Ante- | Before |
Anti- | Against |
Auto- | Self |
Brady- | Slow |
Contra | Opposite |
Dia | Complete or through or across |
Dys | Painful or difficult or abnormal |
End- or endo- | Without or inner |
Epi | upon- or over or above |
Eu- | Normal or good |
ex | out or away from |
hetero- | different |
hydro- | water |
hyper | excessive or above normal or above |
hypo | deficient or below or below normal |
in- | in or within or not |
Infra- | under or beneath or below |
Inter- | Between |
Intra- | Within or inside |
ipsi | same |
Macro- | Large |
Meta | Beyond or change |
Micro | small |
Neo- | New |
Pachy- | Thick |
par or para | Beside or beyond or near or two parts of a pair |
per- | through |
peri | around |
poly- | many |
post- | after |
pre- or pro- | before or in front of |
pseudo- | false |
retro- | backwardor behind |
syn- | together |
tachy- | rapid or fast |
trans- | through or across |
ultra- | beyond or excess |
Bi- or bin- or di- | two or double or twice |
hemi- | half |
mono- or mon- or uni- | one |
multi- | many |
nulli- | none |
quad- or quadri- | four |
semi- | partial or half |
tri- | three |
arthr/o | Joint |
Carcin/o | Cancer |
card/i | Heart |
chem/o | Chemical |
dermat/o | Skin |
enter/o | intestine or small intestine |
gastr/o | stomach |
hepat/o | liver |
immun/o | immunity or immune or protection |
morph/o | shape |
muscul/o | muscle |
nephr/o | kidney |
neur/o | Nerve |
ophthalm/o | eye |
oste/o | Bone |
ot/o | ear |
pharyng/o | Pharynx( Throat) |
pulmon/o | Lung |
rhin/o | Nose |
therm/o | heat |
tonsill/o | Tonsil |
Vertebr/o | Vertebra |
-algia | Pain |
-cele | hernia or protrusion |
-cise | cut |
-cyte | cell |
-derma | skin |
-dynia | pain |
-edema | swelling |
-emia | Blood condition |
-emic | relating to blood |
-gen | that which produces |
-genesis | production or generation |
-genic | producing |
-gnosis | knowing |
State or condition | |
-ion | action or condition |
-ism | state of |
-itis | Inflammation( A response to injury or infection) |
-ization | process of |
-ize | use or subject to |
-logist | one who studies or specialist |
-logy | study of |
-lysis | separation or destruction |
-lytic | separating or destroying |
-malacia | softening |
-megaly | enlargement or large |
-oma | tumor or mass |
-opsy | view of |
-osis | abnormal condition or abnormal formation |
-pathy | disease |
-phobia | abnormal fear or aversion |
-pathy | disease |
-phobia | abnormal fear or aversion |
-plegia | paralysis |
-porosis | porous |
-ptosis | drooping |
-rrhagia or -rrhage | profuse fluiid discharge or excessive discharge |
-rrhea | discharge or flow |
-rrhexis | Rupture |
-sclerosis | hardening |
-stasis | standing still |
-stenosis | narrowing |
-therapy | treatment |
-trophy | development or nourishment |
-um | adding Um, creates a noun |
-uria | Urine condition or urination |
-ac | change into adj |
-al | change into adj |
-an | change into adj |
-ar | change into adj |
-ary | change into adj |
-atic | change into adj |
-eal | change into adj |
-iac | change into adj |
-ic | change into adj |
-ical | change into adj |
-ile | change into adj |
-ine | change into adj |
-ior | change into adj |
-ory | change into adj |
-ose | change into adj |
-ous | change into adj |
-tic | change into adj |
-centesis | Puncture to withdraw fluid |
-ectomy | excision |
-ostomy | surgical construction of a mouth or outlet |
-pexy | surgical fixation |
-plasty | surgical repair or reshaping by surgery |
-rrhaphy | suturing |
-tripsy | crushing |
-gram | image or picture or recording |
-graphy | process of recording |
-meter | instrument for measuring |
-scope | instrument for viewing or examination |
-scopy | process of using an instrument to visually examine |
-tome | cutting instrument |
-is | plural is es (diagnoses) |
-um | plural is a (Ova) |
-us | plural is i (alveoli) |
-a (vertebra) | plural is ae (vertebrae) |
-ix (Appendix) | plural is ices (appendices) |
-ex (cortex) | plural is ices(Cortices) |
-ax (Thorax) | Plural is aces (Thoraces) |
-ma (Carcinoma) | Plural is s or mata (Carcinomas) |
-on ( Spermatozoon) | Plural is spermatozoa |
-nx ( Pharynx) | Plural is nges ( Pharynges) |