Crin/o
to secrete
ur/o
urinary tract (sometime urine)
rheumat/o
rheumatism
trache/o
trachea or windpipe
obstetr/o
midwife
bi/o
life or living
ped/o
child or sometimes foot
blephar/o
eyelid
onc/o
tumor
cerebr/o
brain
encephal/o
brain
prote/o
protein
chir/o
hand
col/o
colon or large intestines
ophthalm/o
eye
vas/o
vessel; vas deferen
amly/o
starch
orth/o
straight
neur/o
nerve
radi/o
radiation or radius
muc/o
mucus
faci/o
face
enter/o
intestines
esthesi/o
feeling or sensation
aden/o
gland
gynec/o
female
ger/a, ger/o, geront/o
eldery
adip/o, lip/o
fat
lith/o
stone
nat/o
birth
cutane/o, derm/o, derm/a, dermat/o
skin
ot/o
ear
pyr/o
fire
myel/o
brain or spinal cord
-ia, -ism
condition, theory
-eum, -ium
membrane
-ia, -iasis
condition
-oid (forms adj and nouns)
resembling
-algia, -dynia
pain
-lysis
process of loosing, freeing, or destroying
-y
state or condition
-ptosis
prolapse or sagging
-penia
deficiency
-tomy
incision
-oma
tumor
-rrhexis
rupture
-malacia
soft, softening
-emesis
vomitting
-ectasia, -ectasis
enlarging, stretching or dilatation
-able, -ible
capable of, able to
-cele
hernia, or protrusion
-er, -ist
one who
-stasis
stopping or controlling
-osis
condition (often abnormal)
-tripsy
surgical crushing
-iatrics, -iatry
medical profression or treatment
-rrhea
flow or discharge
-tome
an instrument used for cutting
-logic, -logical
pertaining to the study of
-iac
one who suffers
-pexy
a surgical fixation (in a fixed position)
-emia
condition of the blood
-opia
vision
-ose
sugar
-rrhaphy
suture
-stomy
formation of an opening
-iatrician
practioner
-ous
pertaining to or characterized by
-mania
excessive preoccupation
-ac, -an, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ical, -ive, -tic
pertaining to
-logist
one who studies or specializes
-rrhage, -rrhagia
excessive bleeding or hemorrhaging
OB
obstetrics
pleg/o
paralysis
gen/o
beginning, origin
phag/o
eat, ingest
chlor/o
green
dips/o
thirst
phon/o
voice
cry/o
cold
leps/o
seizure
top/o
position, place
scop/o
to examine or view
xanth/o
yellow
troph/o
nutrition
aer/o
air
blast/o
embryonic form
phas/o
speech
myc/o
fungus
schis/o, schiz/o, schist/o
split, cleft
megal/o
enlarged or large
cyan/o
blue
crypt/o
hidden
melan/o
black
alb/o, albin/o, leuk/o, leuc/o
white
optic/o, opt/o
vision
metr/o (sometimes metr/i)
measure or uterine tissue
scler/o
hard
necr/o
dead
py/o
pus
nacr/o
stupor
malac/o
soft, softening
per-
through or by
sym- syn-
joined or together
a-, an-
no, not, without
eu-
good, normal
inter-
between
super- supra-
above, beyond
dia-
through
ab-
away from
intra-
within
super- ultra
excessive
ecto-, ex-, exo-, extra-
out, away from, without
para-
near, beside, abnormal
ad-
toward
ipsi-
same
pan-
all
in-
not or inside (in)
nulli-
none
-gram
record
gram/o
to record
-graph
instructument for recording
-lysin
that which destroys
-phasia
process of speech
-genic
produced in or by
therapeut/o
treatment
tom/o
to cut
plast/o
repair
algesi/o
senstivity to pain
fluor/o
emitting or reflecting light
CT, CAT
computed tomography, computerized axial tomography, or computed axial tomography
PET
positron emission tomography
CPT
Current Procedural Terminology
ICD
International Classification of Diseases
wnl
within normal limits
MRI
magnetic resonance imaging
febrile
pertaining to a fever