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Chapter 2 Med Terms
39 cards·by KarleeAnderson
cancer/o, carcin/o
Cancer
eti/o
cause (of disease)
gno/o
knowledge
iatro/o
physician, medicine
lei/o
smooth
onc/o
tumor, mass
path/o
disease
rhabd/o
rod-shaped, striated
somat/o
body
chlor/o
green
chrom/o
color
cyan/o
blue
erythr/o
red
leuk/o
white
melan/o
black
xanth/o
yellow
dia-
through, complete
dys-
painful, abnormal, difficult
hyper-
above, excessive
hypo-
below, incomplete, deficient, under
meta-
after, beyond, change
neo-
new
pro-
before
-al, -ic, -ous
pertaining to
-cyte
cell
-gen
substance or agent that produces or causes
-genic
producing, originating, causing
-logist
one who studies and treat
-logy
study of
-megaly
enlargement
-oid
resembling
-oma
tumor, swelling
-osis
abnormal condition
-pathy
disease
-plasia
condition of formation, development, growth
-plasm
growth, substance, growth
-sarcoma
malignant tumor
-sis
state of
-stasis
control, stop, standing