Medical Terminology
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- -ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -ic
- pertaining to
- -algia
- pain
- -ase
- enzyme
- -logy
- study of
- -dipsia
- thirst
- -graphy, -graph
- instrument for recording
- -gram
- record
- -genic
- producing
- -pathy
- disease
- -itis
- inflammation of
- -osis
- condition
- -rrhage
- excessive flow
- -oid
- resembling, like
- -ectomy
- surgical removal
- -stasis
- control
- -logist
- specialist
- -scopy
- viewing of
- -rrhea
- flowing discharge
- -scope
- instrument
- -sclerosis
- hardening
- -spasm
- twitching, involuntary contraction
- -oma
- tumor
- -cyte, cyt/o
- cell
- -emia
- blood condition
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -uria
- urine
- -iatry
- treatment
- -lepsy
- seizure
- -lysis
- breaking down
- -lytic
- destroy
- -megaly
- enlarged
- -meter
- measuring instrument
- -penia
- decreased number
- -phagia
- eating, swallowing
- -philia
- attraction to
- -phobia
- fear of
- -plegia
- paralysis, stroke
- -stenosis
- narrowing
- -stomy
- artificial opening
- -toxic
- poison
- -trophy
- nourishment, development
- -ule, -ula
- small
- acous/o
- hearing
- aden/o
- gland
- adip/o, lipid
- fat
- alb, -leuk/o, leuk-
- white
- ambul/o
- walk
- andr/o
- male
- angi/o
- vessel
- arthr/o
- joint
- bucc/o
- cheek
- carcin/o
- cancer
- cardi
- heart
- cereb
- brain
- chem/o
- chemistry
- cyan, cyan-
- blue
- cyst/o
- bladder
- derm/a
- skin
- duoden/o
- duodenum, first part of small intestine
- enter/o
- intestine
- erythr/o
- red
- esophag/o
- esophagus
- fibr/o
- fiber
- gastr/o
- stomach
- gluc/o, glyc/o
- sugar
- gynec/o
- woman
- hemat/o, hem/o
- blood
- hepat/o
- liver
- hist/o
- body tissues
- hyster/o
- uterus
- lact/o
- milk
- lapar/o
- abdomen
- lymph/o
- lymph
- mamm/o
- breast tissue
- melan/o
- dark, black
- myel/o, my/o
- muscle
- nas/o
- nose
- necr/o
- dead
- nephr/o
- kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- ocul/o, ophthalm/o
- eye
- oste/o
- bone
- ot/o
- ear
- ox, oxy
- oxygen
- pancreat/o
- pancreas
- pelv/o
- pelvis
- phleb/o
- vein
- pneum/o
- lungs
- prostat/o
- prostate
- psych/o
- mind
- pulm/o
- lungs
- ren/o
- kidney
- retin/o
- retina
- rhin/o
- nose
- thromb/o
- blood clot
- tox/o
- poisonous
- urethr/o
- urethra
- ven/o
- vein
- vas, vascul/o
- blood vessel
- vesic, vesicul/o
- vesicle, bladder
- uter/o
- uterus
- proct/o
- rectum
- a-, an-
- without, not, no
- ante-
- before
- anti-
- against
- auto-
- self
- bi-
- two
- bio-
- life
- brady-
- slow
- circum-
- around
- cirrh-
- orange-yellow
- contra-
- against
- dia-
- completely
- dys-
- bad, painful, abnormal
- endo-
- within, inner
- epi-
- above
- eryth-
- red
- eu-
- good, normal
- extra-
- outside
- hemi-
- half
- hyper-
- over, above
- hypo-
- below, under
- immun-
- pertaining to immunity
- inter-
- between, among
- intra-
- within, inside
- iso-
- equal
- macro-
- large
- mal-
- poor
- melan-
- black
- micro-
- small
- pan-
- all
- per-
- through
- peri-
- around
- poly-
- many, excessive
- post-
- after
- pre-
- before
- quadri-
- four
- sub-
- below, under
- sym-, syn-
- together