Medical Terminology Prefixes - Mrs. Titus-Costello's ...

Prefix A Ab Ad Ambi An Ana Ant Ante Anti Apo Astro Auto Bi Bin Brachy Brady Cac Cata Centi Chromo Circum Con Contra De Deca Di(a) Dif Dipl Di(s) Dys Ec Ecto Em En End Endo Ep Epi Eso Eu Ex Exo Extra Hemi Heter Hetero Homo Homeo Hydr(o) Hyp Hyper Hypo In Infra Infer Inter

Medical Terminology Prefixes

Definition

Prefix

Definition

No, not, without, apart

Intra

Within

Away from

Ir(in)

Back

Toward, near

Macro

Large

Both

Mal

Bad

No, not, without, lack of

Mega

Large, great

Up

Meso

Middle

Against

Meta

Beyond, over, between

Before

Micro

Small

Against

Milli

One-thousandth

Separation

Mon(o)

One

Star-shaped

Multi

Many, much

Self

Neo

New

Two, double

Nulli

None

Twice

Olig(o)

Little, scanty

Short

Pan

All

Slow

Par

Around, beside

Bad

Para

Beside, alongside, abnormal

Down

Per

Through

A hundred

Peri

Around

Color

Poly

Many, much, excessive

Around

Post

After, behind

With, together

Pre

Before

Against

Primi

First

Down, away from

Pro

Before

Ten

Proto

First

Through, between

Pseudo

False

Apart, free from, separate

Pyro

Fire

Double

Quadri

Four

Two, apart

Quint

Five

Bad, difficult, painful

Re

Back

Out, outside, outer

Retro

Backward

Out, outside, outer

Semi

Half

In

Sub

Below, under, beneath

Within

Supra

Above, beyond

Within, inner

Super

Above, beyond

Within, inner

Sym

Together

Upon, over, above

Syn

Together, with

Upon, over, above

Tachy

Fast

Inward

Tetra

Four

Good, normal

Trans

Across

Out, away from

Tri

Three

Out, away from

Ultra

Beyond

Outside, beyond

Uni

One

Half

Different

Different

Similar, same

Similar, likeness, constant

Water

Below, deficient

Above, beyond, excessive

Below, under, deficient

In, into, not

Below

Below

Between

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Suffix -able -ac -ad -age -al -algesia -algia -ant -ar -ary -ase -asthenia -ate(d) -betes -blast -body -cele -centesis -ceps -cide -clasia -clave -cle -clysis -cope -crit -culture -cusis -cuspid -cyesis -cyst -cyte -derma -dermis -desis -dipsia -drome -dynia -ectasia -ectasis -ectasy -ectomy -edema -emesis -emia -er -ergy -esthesia -form -fuge -gen -genes -genesis -genic -glia -globin

Definition Capable Pertaining to Pertaining to Related to Pertaining to Pain Pain Forming Pertaining to Pertaining to Enzyme weakness Use, action To go Immature cell, germ cell Body Hernia, tumor, swelling Surgical puncture Head To kill A breaking A key Small Injection Strike To separate Cultivation Hearing Point Pregnancy Bladder Cell Skin Skin Binding Thirst A course Pain Dilation Dilation, distension Dilation Surgical excision Swelling Vomiting Blood condition Relating to, one who Work Feeling Shape To flee Formation, produce Produce Formation, produce Formation, produce Glue Protein

Medical Terminology Suffixes

Suffix

Definition

-gnosis Knowledge

-grade A step

-graft

Pencil, grafting knife

-gram

A weight, mark, record

-graph To write, record

-graphy Recording

-hexia

Condition

-ia

Condition

-iasis

Conditon

-ic

Pertaining to

-ide

Having a particular quality

-in

Chemical, pertaining to

-ine

Pertaining to

-ing

Quality of

-ion

Process

-ism

Condition

-ist

One who specializes

-itis

Inflammation

-ity

Condition

-ive

Nature of, quality of

-kinesia Motion

-kinesis Motion

-lalia

To talk

-lemma A sheath, rind

-lepsy

Seizure

-lexia

Diction

-liter

Liter

-lith

Stone

-logy

Study of

-lymph Clear fluid

-lysis

Destruction, to separate

-malacia Softening

-mania Madness

-megaly Enlargement, large

-meter Instrument to measure

-metry Measurement

-mnesia Memory

-morph Form, shape

-noia

Mind

-oid

Resemble

-ole

Opening

-oma

Tumor

-omion Shoulder

-on

Pertaining to

-one

Hormone

-opia

Eye, vision

-opsia

Eye, vision

-opsy

To view

-or

One who, a doer

-ory

Like, resemble

-orexia Appetite

-ose

Like

-osis

Condition

-ous

Pertaining to

-paresis Weakness

-pathy

disease

Suffix -penia -pepsia -pexy -phagia -phasia -pheresis -phil(ia) -phobia -phoresis -phragm -phraxis -phylaxis -physis -plakia -plasia -plasm -plasty -plegia -pnea -poiesis -praxia -ptosis -ptysis -puncture -rrhage -rrhagia -rrhaphy -rrhea -rrhexis -scope -scopy -sepsis -sis -some -spasm -stalsis -stasis -staxis -sthenia -stomy -systole -taxia -therapy -thermy -tic -tome -tomy -tone -tripsy -troph(y) -type -um -ure -uria -us -y

Definition Lack of, deficiency To digest Surgical fixation To eat To speak Removal Attraction Fear To carry A fence To obstruct Protection Growth Plate Formation, produce A thing formed, plasma Surgical repair Storke, paralysis Breathing Formation Action Prolapse, drooping To spit, spitting To pierce To burst forth To burst forth Suture Flow, discharge Rupture Instrument To view, examine Decay Condition Body Tension, contraction Contraction Control, stopping Dripping, trickling Strength New opening Contraction Order Treatment Heat Pertaining to Instrument to cut Incision Tension Crushing Nourish, development Type Tissue Process Urine Pertaining to Condition, pertaining to

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Root Abdomin Abort Absorpt Acanth Acetabul Acid Acoust Acr/o Act Actin Aden/o Adhes Adip Agglutinat Agon Agor/a Albin Albumin Alimentat All Alveol Ambyl Ambul Amni/o Amputat Amyl Anastom Andr/o Ang/i/o Angin Anis/o Ankyl An/o Anter/i Anthrac Aort/o Append Arachn Arche Arter/i/o Arthr/o Artific/i Aspirat Atel/o Ather/o Atri/o Aud/i/o Auditor Aur/i Auscultat Aut/o Axill/o Bacter/i Balan/o Bas/o Bil/i

Medical Terminology Root Words

Definition

Root

Definition

Root

Abdomen

Bi/o

Life

Col/o

To miscarry

Blast/o

Germ cell

Colon/o

To suck in

Blephar/o

Eyelid

Cop/o

A thorn

Bol

To cast, throw

Concuss

Vinegar, cup

Brach/i

Arm

Condyle

Acid

Bronch/i/o bronchi

Con/i

Hearing

Bronchiol Bronchiole

Conjunctiv

Extremity, point

Bucc

Cheek

Connect

Acting

Burs

A pouch

Constipat

Ray

Calc/i

Lime, calcium

Continence

Gland

Calcan/e

Heel bone

Cor/o

Stuck to

Capn

Smoke

Coriat

Fat

Capsul

A little box

Corne

Clumping

Carcin/o

Cancer

Corpor/e

Agony

Card/i/o

Heart

Corti/c/s

Market place

Carp/o

Wrist

Cost/o

White

Cartil

Cartilage, gristle

Cox

Protein

Castr

To prune

Cran/i/o

Nourishment

Caud

Tail

Creat/in

Other

Caus

Heat

Crin/e/o

Small, hollow air sac

Cavit

Cavity

Crur

Dull

Celi

Abdomen, belly

Cry/o

To walk

Cellul

Little cell

Crypt

Amnion,sac around fetus Centr/i/o

center

Cubit

To cut through

Cephal/o

Head

Culd/o

Starch

Cept

Receive

Cutane/o

Opening

Cerebell/o Little brain, cerebellum Cyan/o

Man

Cerebr/o

Brain, cerebrum

Cycl/o

Vessel

Cervic

Cervix, neck

Cyst/o

To choke, pain

Cheil

Lip

Cyt/o

Unequal

Chem./o

Chemical

Cyth

Stiffening, crooked

Chlor/o

Green

Dacry

Anus

Chol//e

Gall bladder, bile

Dactyl/o

Toward the front

Choledoch/o Common bile duct

Defecat

Coal

Chondr/o

Cartilage

Dem

Aorta

Chord

Cord

Dendr/o

Appendix

Chori/o

Chorion

Dent/i

Spider

Choroid/o Choroids

Derm/a/o

Beginning

Chromat

Color

Dermat/o

Artery

Chrom/o

Color

Dextr/o

Joint

Chym

Juice

Diast

Not natural

Cine

Motion

Didym

To draw in

Cinemat/o Motion

Digit

Imperfect

Circulat

Circluar

Dilat

Fatty substance

Cirrh/o

Orange-yellow

Disk

Atrium

Cis

To cut

Dist

To hear

Claudicat

To limp

Diverticul

Hearing

Clavicul/o Little key

Dors/i

Ear

Cleid/o

Clavicle

Duct

Listen to

Coagul/at

To clot

Duoden/o

Self

Coccyg/e/o Tail bone

Dur/o

Armpit

Cochle/o

Land snail

Dwarf

Bacteria

Coit

a coming together

Dynam

Glans penis

Col/o

Colon

Ech/o

Base

Coll/a

Glue

Ectop

Bile, gall bladder

Collis

neck

Eg/o

Definition Colon Colon Vagina Shaken violenty Knuckle Dust To join together To bind together To press together To hold Pupil Corium Cornea Body Cortex Rib Hip Skull Flesh, creatine To secrete Leg Cold Hidden Elbow, to lie Cul-de-sac Skin Blue Ciliary body Bladder, sac Cell Cell Tear Finger or toe To remove dregs People Tree Tooth Skin Skin To the right To expand Testis Finger or toe To widen A disk Away from the origin Diverticula Backward To lead Duodenum Dura, hard Small Power Echo Displaced I, self

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Root Ejaculat/o Electr/o Eme Embol/o Emulsificat Encaphal/o Enchyma Enter/o Enucleat Eosin/o Episi/o Equ/i Erg/et/o Eructat Erysi Erythr/o Esophag/e/o Esthesi/o Estr/o Eti/o Eunia Excret/o F(erat) Fasc/i/o Femor/o Fenestrat Fibr/o Fibrillat Fibr/in/o Fibul/o Filtrat Fixat Flex Fluor/o Foc Follicul/o Format Fungat Fus Galact/o Ganglion Gastr/o Gen/e/t Genital Gen/o Ger Gest Gester Gigant Gingiv/o Glandul/o Gli/o Glob/in/ul Glomerul/o Gloss/o Gluc/o Glyc/o/s

Definition To throw out Electricity To vomit To cast, to throw Disintegrate Brain To pour Intestine To remove the center of Rose-colored Vulva Equal Work A breaking out Red Red Esophagus Feeling Mad desire Cause A bed Sifted out To bear Fascia, a band Femur Window Fibrous tissue, fiber Fibrils, small fibers Fiber Fibula To strain through Fastened To bend Fluorescence Focus Little bag A shaping Mushroom, fungus To pour Milk Knot Stomach Formation, produce Belonging to birth Kind Old age To carry To bear Giant Gums Little acorn Glue Globule, globe Glomerulus, little ball Tongue Sweet, sugar, glucose Sweet sugar, glucose

Root Gonad Goni/o Granul/o Gravida Gryp Gynec/o Halat Hallux Hem/at/o Hemorrh Hepat/o Herni/o Hidr Hirsut Hist/o Hol/o Horizont Humer/o Hydr/o Hypn Hyster/o Icter Ile/o Ili/o Illus Immun/o Infarct Infect Infer/i Inguin/o Insul/in/o Integument Intern Ionizat Ion/t/o Irid/o Isch Ischi Is/o Jaund Kal Kary/o Kel Kerat/o Keton Kil/o Kinet Kyph Labi Labyrinth/o Lacrim Lamin Lamp/s Lapar/o Laryng/e/o Later Laxat

Definition Seed Angle Little grain, granular Pregnant Curve Female Breathe Great (big) toe Blood Vein liable to bleed Liver Hernia Sweat Hairy Tissue Whole Horizon Humerus water Sleep Womb, uterus Jaundice Ileum Ilium Foot Safe, immunity Necrosis of an area Infection Below Groin Insulin Covering Within Ion, going Ion Iris To hold back Ischium Equal Yellow Potassium Cell's nucleus Tumor Cornea, horn Ketone A thousand Motion A hump Lip Maze Tear Lamina, thin place To shine Flank, abdomen Larynx Side To loosen

Root Lei/o Lemma Lent Lept Letharg Leuk/o Levat Libr/i Lingu/o Lip/id/o Lith/o Lob/o Lobul Locat Log Log/o Lord Lucent Lumb/o Lump Lun Lymph/o Malign Mamm/o Mandibul/o Man/o Mast/o Masticat Maxill/a/o Maxim Meat/o Med/i Medull/o Melan/o Men/o Mening/i/o Menise Ment Mes/o Mester Metr/i Micturit Miliar Minim Mi/o Mit Mitr/o Mnes Muc/os/us Muscul/o Muta/t My/o/s Myc/o Mydriat Myel/o Myring/o Myx

Definition Smooth Rind, sheath, husk Lens Seizure Drowsiness White Lifter Balance Tongue Fat Stone Lobe Small lobe Place Study Word Bending To shine Loin Lump Moon Lymph, clear fluid Bad kind Breast Lower jawbone Thin Breast Chew Jaw Greatest Passage Middle Marrow Black Month Meninges membrane Crescent Mind Middle Month Womb, uterus To urinate Tiny Least Less, smaller Thread Mitral valve Memory Mucus Muscle To change Muscle Fungus Dilation, widen Marrow, spinal cord Drum membrane Mucus

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Root Narc/o Nas/o Nat/o Necr/o Nephr/o Neur/i/o Neutr/o Nid Noct Nom Norm Nucl/e/o Nyctal Nystagm Occlus Ocul Odont Olecran Onc/o Onych/o O/o Oophor Opthalm/o Opt/o Or Orch/id/o Organ Orth/o Oscill/o Oste/o Ot/o Ovar Ovul/at Ox/i Oxy Pachy Pancreat/o Paque Palat/o Palliat Pallid/o Palm Palpitat/o Papill Para Paralyt Partum Parturit Patell/o Path/o Pause Pector Pectorat Ped/i Pedicul Pelv/i Pen/ile

Definition Numbness Nose Birth Death Kidney Nerve Neither Nest Night Law Rule Nucleus Blind To nod To shut up Eye Tooth Elbow Tumor Nail Ovum, egg Ovary Eye Eye Mouth Testicle Organ Straight To swing Bone Ear Ovary Ovary Oxygen Sour, sharp, acid Thick Pancreas Dark Palate Cloaked Globus, pallidus Palm Throbbing Papilla To bear To disable, paralysis Labor In labor Kneecap, patella Disease Cessation Chest Breast Foot, child A louse Pelvis Penis

Root Pept/o Perine Periton/e Phac/o Phag/o Phak Phalang/e/o Phas Phen/o Phe/o Phim Phleb/o Phon/e Phor Phos Phot/o Phragm/at/o Phras Physic Physi/o Pil/o Pineal Pin/o Pituitar Plak Plasma Plast/o Pleur/a/o Plicat Pneum/o/n Poeit Poli/o Pollex Por Porphyr Poster/i Prand/i Presby Press Proct/o Prolif Prophylact Prostat Prosth/e Prot/e Proxim Prurit Psych/o Pudend Pulm/o/n/ar Pupill Purpur Py/o Pyel/o Pylor Pyret Pyr/o

Definition To digest Perineum Peritoneum Lens To eat, engulf Lentil, lens Pharynx Speech To show Dusky A muzzle Vein Voice Carrying Light Light Partition Speech Nature Nature Hair Pineal body To drink Phlegm Plate A thing formed A developing Pleura To fold Lung Formation Gray Thumb A passage Purple Behind Meal Old To press Anus, rectum Fruitful Guarding Prostate An addition First Near a point of origin Itchng Mind External genitals Lung Pupil Purple Pus Renal pelvis Pylorus, gate keeper Fever Heat, fire

Root Rach/i Rad/i Radiat Radic/o Radicul Radi/o Rect/o Relaxat Remiss Ren/o Respirat/o Reticul/o Retin/o Rhabd/o Rheumat/o Rhin/o Rhonch/o Rhytid/o Rotat Rrhyth/m Rube/o Sacr/o Salping/o Salpinx Sarc/o Scapul/o Scler/o Scoli/o Scop Seb/o Second Semin/at Senil/e Sept/ic Ser/a/o Sert Sex/u Sial/o Sider/o Sigmoid/o Sin/o Sinus Situ Som/at/o Somn Son/o Spadias Spastic Sperm/i/at/o Sphygm/o Spin/o Spir/o Splen/o Spondyl/o Staped Steat Sten

Definition Spine Radiating out Radiant Spinal nerve root Spinal nerve root Ray Rectum To loosen Remit Kidney Breathing Net Retina Rod discharge Nose Snore Wrinkle To turn Rhythm Red Sacrum Tube, fallopian tube Tube, fallopian tube Flesh Shoulder blade Hardening, sclera Curvature To examine Oil Second Seed Old Putrefying Whey, serum To gain Sex Saliva Iron Sigmoid colon A curve A hollow curve Place Body Sleep Sound A rent, an opening Convulsive Seed, sperm Pulse Spine, a thorn Breath Spleen Vertebra Stirrup Fat Narrowing

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