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Medical terms
for MLSCI 200
144 cards·by Statique
aden/o
gland.
cutane/o
skin.
adip/o
fat.
cyan/o
blue.
adren/o
adrenal gland.
cyst/o
bladder, or fluid filled sac.
aer/o
air.
cyt/o
cell.
angi/o
vessel.
derm/o
skin.
anter/o
front, anterior.
dipl/o
double.
aort/o
aorta.
dist/o
far, farthest away.
arteri/o
artery.
encephal/o
brain.
arthr/o
joint.
enter/o
intestine.
bronchi/o
bronchus.
erythr/o
red.
calc/o
calcium.
gastr/o
stomach.
carcin/o
cancer.
gluc, glyc -/o
sugar, glucose.
cardi/o
heart.
hema, hem, hemat-/o
blood.
cephal/o
head.
hepat/o
liver.
cerebr/o
brain.
hist/o
tissue.
chondr/o
cartilage.
hydr/o
water.
chrom/
colour.
lapar/o
abdominal.
col/o
colon.
laryng/o
larynx.
latr/o
side.
pharyng/o
pharynx.
leuk/o
white.
phleb/o
vein.
lingu/o
tongue.
pleur/o
pleura.
lip/o
fat.
pneum/o
lung.
lith/o
stone.
poster/o
back of body.
lymph/o
lymph.
proxim/o
near.
melan/o
black.
py/o
pus.
mening/o
meninges.
rhin/o
nose.
o/meter
instrument for measuring.
sclera/o
hardening, white of eye.
myc/o
fungus.
splen/o
spleen.
myel/o
spinal cord, bone marrow.
tend/o
tendons.
my/o
muscle.
therm/o
heat.
necr/o
death.
thorac/o
chest.
nephr/o
kidneys.
thromb/o
blood clot.
neur/o
nerve.
toxic/o, tox/o
poison.
olig/o
scant, little.
trache/o
trachea.
or/o, stomat/o
mouth.
ur/o
urine.
oste/o
bone.
vascul/o
blood vessel.
ot/o
ear.
xanth/o
yellow.
a-, an-
without, not.
macro-
large.
ante-
before.
micro-
small.
anti-
against.
multi-
many.
auto-
self.
neo-
new.
bi-
two.
norm/o-
normal.
brady-
slow.
para, peri-
near, beside, around.
dia-
through.
per-
through.
dis-
apart, separate.
poly-
many, much.
dys-
painful, difficult, bad.
post-
after, behind.
ecto-
outside of.
pre-
before.
epi-
above.
pseudo-
false.
hemi-, semi-
half, partly.
quadri-
four.
hydro-
water.
sub-
below.
hypo-
below, under, low.
supra-
above.
hyper-
excessive, high
tachy-
rapid.
inter-
between.
tri-
three.
intra-
within.
trans-
across.
-al, ia, -ic, -is, -ous
pertaining to.
-oid
like.
-algia, -dynia
pain.
-pathy
disease.
-centesis
surgical puncture.
-penia
decrease.
-cyte
cell.
-pepsia
digestion.
-derma
skin.
-phagia
swallow, eat.
-ectomy
excision, removal.
-philic / -phobia
loving / fearing.
-edema
swelling.
-plasia, -plasm
formation, growth.
-emesis
vomiting.
-plasty
surgical repair.
-emia
blood.
-pnea
breathing.
-genesis
forming, producing.
-rhage, rrhagia
bursting forth of.
-gram
record.
-rrhea
discharge, flow.
-graph
instrument for recording.
-scope
instrument to view.
-graphy
process of recording.
-scopy
visual inspection.
-iasis, -osis
abnormal condition of.
-spasm
involuntary contraction.
-itis
inflammation.
-stasis
standing still.
-logist
specialist in the study of something.
-stenosis
narrowing.
-logy
study of.
-stomy
forming a new opening.
-lysis
destruction, separate.
-tome
instrument to cut.