Medical Terminology: Prefixes Roots, and Suffixes

Away, lack of: abnormal, departing from normal

From, without: asepsis, without infection

An extremity: acrodermatitis, a dermatitis of the limbs

To, toward, near: adrenal, near the kidney

Gland: adenitis, inflammation of a gland

Pain: Neuralgi, pain extending along nerves

Both: ambidextrous, referring to both hands

Before: antenatal, occurring or having been formed before birth

Against: antiseptic, against or preventing sepsis

Joint: arthritis, inflammation of a joint

Self: autointoxication, poisoning by toxin generated in the body

Two: binocular, pertaining to both eyes

Life: Biopsy, inspection of living organisms ( or tissues )

Bud, a growing thing in early stages: Blastocyte, beginning cell not yet differentiated

eyelids: blepharitis, inflammation of an eyelid

Arm: brachialis, muscle for flexing forearm

Short: brachydactylia, abnormal shortness of fingers and toes

Slow: bradycardia, abnormal slowness of heartbeat

Windpipe: bronchiectasis, dilation of bronchial tubes

Cheek: buccally, toward the cheek

Cancer: carcinogenic, producing cancer

Heart: cardialgia, pain in the heart

Head: cephalic measurements

Lip: cheilitis, inflammation of the lip

Bile: cholecyst, the gallbladder

Cartilage: chondrectomy, removal of a cartilage

Around: circumocular, around the eyes

Clabicle: cleidocostal, pertaining to clavicle and ribs

Vagina: colporrhagia, vaginal hemorrhage

Against, opposed: contraindication, indication opposing usually indicated treatment

Rib: intercostal, between the ribs

Against: counterirritation, an irritation to relieve some other irritation

Skull: craniotomy, surgical opening in skull

Hidden: cryptogenic, of hidden or unknown origin

Skin: subcutaneous, under the skin

Sac or bladder: cystitis, inflammation of any bladder

Cell: cytology, scientific study of cells; cytometer, a device for couting and measuring cells

Lacrimal glands: dacryocyst, tear-sac

Skin: dermatoid, skinlike

Two: diphasic, occurring in two stages or phases

Apart: disarticulation, taking a joint apart

Pain or difficulty: Dyspepsia, impairment of digestion

Outside: ectoretina, outermost layer of retina

In: encapsulated, enclosed in a capsule

Brain: encephalitis, inflammation of the brain

Within: endothelium, layer of cells lining heart, and blood and lymph vessels

Intestine: enterrosis, falling of intestine

Above or on: epdiermis, outermost layer of skin

Red: erythrocyte, red blood cell

Well: euphoria, well feeling, feeling of good health

Out: excretion, material thrown out of the body or the organ

Outside: extramural, situated or occurring outside a wall

Outside: extramural, situated or occurring outside a wall

Fever: febrile, feverish

Milk: galactose, a milk sugar

Stomach: gastrectomy, excision of the stomach

Tongue: glossectomy, surgical removal of tongue

Sugar: glycosuria, sugar in the urine

Women: gynecology, science of diseases pertaining to women

Blood: hermatopoiesis, forming of blood

Half: herminphrectomy, excision of half the kidney

Liver: hepatitis, inflammation of the liver

Other ( opposite of homo )

Tissue

Same

Water

Above, excess of

Under, deficiency of

Uterus

In

Not: Immature, not mature

Below: infraorbital, below theorbit

Between

Within

Horn, cornea

Milk

White

Large

Breast

Great: megacolon

Mind: dementia

Part: merotomy, division into segments

Middle

Beyond, over, change:

Small

Muscle

Fungi

Corpse, dead

New

Kidney

Nerve

Tooth

Little

Egg

Ovary

straight, normal

Eye

Bone

Bone

Ear

Ovary

Irregular, around, wrong

Disease

Children

Feet

Through, excessively

Around, immediately around

Love

Vein

Fear

Lung

Grey

Many

After

Before

Before

Rectum

False

Soul or mind

Pus

Pelvis

Spine

Kidney

Backward

Nose

A tube

Half

Poison

Body

Make stand

Narrow

Under

above, excessively

Above, on:

With, together

Fast

Stretch

Heat

Poison

Trachea

Across

Three

Hair

One

Vessel

Animal