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Medical terms
for MLSCI 200
148 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
-megaly
enlargement
-tomy
incision, to cut into
-oma
tumour
-uria
urine