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root, suffix, prefix

Chapter 1

TermDefinition
enter/o small intestine
hepat/o liver
hem/o or hemat/o blood
my/o or muscul/o muscle
angi/o, vas/o, or vascul/o vessel
derm/o, dermat/o. or cutane/o skin
gen/o creation, cause
hydr/o water
morph/o change
myc/o fungus
necr/o death
orth/o straight
path/o suffering, disease
phag/o eat
plas/o formation
py/o pus
scler/o hard
sten/o narrowing
troph/o nourishment
xen/o foreign
-ac pertaining to
-al pertaining to
-ar pertaining to
-ary pertaining to
-eal pertaining to
-ic pertaining to
-tic pertaining to
-ous pertaining to
-ia condition
-ism condition
-ium tissue. structure
-y condition, procedure
-icle small
-ole small
-ule small
-ula small
-iatrics medical science
-iatry medical science
-ist specialist in medicine of
-logist specialist in the study of
-logy study of
-algia pain
-dynia pain
-cele hernia
-emia blood condition
-iasis presence if
-itis inflammation
-lysis loosen, break down
-malacia abnormal softening
-megaly enlargment
-oid resembling
-oma tumor
-osis condition
-pathy disease
-penia deficiency
-ptosis drooping
-rrhage or -rrhagia excessive flow
-rrhea flow
-rrhexis rupture
-spasm involuntary condition
-centesis puncture
-gram written record
-graph instrument used to produce a record
-graphy writing procedure
-meter instrument used to measure
-metry process of measuring
-scope instrument for looking
-scopy process of looking
-desis binding, fixation
-ectomy removal
-pexy surgical fixation
-plasty reconstruction
-rrhaphy suture
-stomy creation of an opening
-tomy incision
a- or an- not
anti- or contra- against
de- down away from
ante- or pre- before
pro- before, on behalf of
brady- slow
tachy- fast
post- after
re- again
dia- through
e-, ec-, or ex- out
ecto-, exo-, or extra- outside
en-, endo-, or intra- in, inside
epi- upon
sub- beneath
inter- between
bi- two
hemi- or semi- half
hyper- over
hypo- under
macro- large
micro- small
mono- or uni- one
oligo- few
pan- all
poly- or multi- many
con-, syn-, or sym- with, together
dys- bad
eu- good
definition of medical term process suffix, prefix (if one is present),them the root or roots
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