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Medical Terminology
Words for AHP Course 1
107 cards·by ericadarling
aden/o
gland
append/o, appendic/o
appendix
arteri/o
artery
arthr/o
joint
bi/o
living thing, life
cardi/o
heart, upper part of stomach
col/o, colon/o
large intestine, colon
crani/o
skull
cyst/o
sac of fluid, bladder
derm/o, dermat/o
skin
duct/o
carry
enter/o
small intestine
gastr/o
stomach
gen/o
giving rise to, creating
gloss/o
tongue
glyc/o
sugar
hem/o, hemat/o
blood
hepat/o
liver
hist/o
tissue
hydr/o
water, fluid
leuk/o
white
lith/o
stone
muc/o
mucus
my/o
muscle
myel/o
bone marrow, spinal cord
neur/o
nervve
norm/o
proper, rule
oste/o
bone
path/o
disease
ped/o
child, infant, foot
pulmon/o
lung
ren/o
kidney
secti/o
cut into
splen/o
spleen
tens/o
pressure
the/o
put
therm/o
heat
thorac/o
chest
thromb/o
clot
ven/o
vein
acr/o
extremity, tip
a/, an/
without, absent
ab/
away from
ac/
toward, near
ad/
toward, near
anti/
against, opposed
brady/
slower than usual
de/
lessened, removed
dia/
through
ec/, ex/
outside, outer
ecto/, exo/
outside, outer
en/, endo/
within
epi/
upon, in addition
hemi/
half
hyper/
increased, above
hypo/
decreased, below
cata/
negative, down
in/
into, not
infra/
inferior to, below
inter/
between
intra/
within
macro/
gross, large
micro/
small, tiny
pan/
all, every
para/
beside, beyond
per/
through
peri/
around, surrounding
post/
after, past
pre/
before
re/
again, back
retro/
behind, back
sub/
under, inferior to
tachy/
faster than usual
/grade (adjective)
go
/gram (noun)
picture, record, tracing
/graph (noun)
instrument that creates a picture or recording
/graphy (noun)
process of creating a picture, record, tracing
/ia (noun)
condition
/ism (noun)
situation, process, condition
/algia (noun)
pain
/centesis (noun)
withdrawing fluid
/cyte (noun)
cell
/ectomy (noun)
removal
/emia or /hemia (noun)
throughout the blood
/ist (noun)
one who does
/itis, /itic (noun) (adjective)
inflammation
/ium (noun)
structure
/logy (noun)
study of; also used as a root word-log/o
/megaly (noun)
enlargement
/meter (noun)
distance measure, instrument to measure
/opsy (noun)
look at
/osis (noun)
pathologic condition
/pathy (noun)
disease process
/scope (noun)
instrument to see through or with
/stasis (noun)
control, hold in
/y (noun)
process of
/ac (adjective)
relating to
/al (adjective)
relating to
/ar (adjective)
relating to
/ary (adjective)
relating to
/eal (adjective)
relating to
/iac (adjective)
relating to
/ior (adjective)
relating to
/oid (adjective)
like
/ose (adjective)
like, relating to (also suffix for chemical name for sugar)
/ous (adjective)
relating to
/tic (adjective)
relating to