COMBINING FORMS

COMBINING FORMS

Hemat/o

Hem/o

Blood

Aden/o

Gland

Arthr/o

Joint

Bi/o

Life

Carcin/o

Cancerous, cancer

Cardi/o

Heart

Cephal/o

Head

Cerebr/o

Cerebrum (largest part of the brain)

Cis/o

To cut

Crin/o

To secrete (to form and give off)

Cyst/o

Urinary bladder; a fluid filled sac or a cyst.

Cyt/o

Cell

Derm/o

Dermat/o

Skin

Electr/o

Electricity

Encephal/o

Brain

Enter/o

Intestines (usually the small intestines)

Erythr/o

 Red

Gastr/o

Stomach

Gnos/o

Knowledge

Gynec/o

Woman/ female

Hepat/o

Liver

Iatr/o 

Treatment, physician

Leuk/o

White

Nephr/o

Kidney

Neur/o

Nerve

Onc/o

Tumor

Opthalm/o

Eye

Oste/o

Bone

Path/o

Disease

Ped/o

Child

Psych/o

Mind

Radi/o

X-rays

Ren/o

Kidney

Rhin/o

Nose

sarc/o

Flesh

Sect/o

To cut

Thromb/o

Clot, clotting

Ur/o

Urinary tract, urine

PREFIXES

PREFIXES

a-, an-

No, not, without

aut-, auto-

self, own

dia-

Through, complete

end-, endo-

Within

epi-

Above, upon

ex-

Out

Exo-

Outside of, outward

hyper-

Excessive, above, more than normal

hypo-

Deficient, below, under, lass than normal

in-

Into, in

peri-

Surrounding, around

pro-

Before, forward

SUFFIXES

SUFFIXES

-ac

Pertaining to

-al

Petaining to

-algia

Pain

-cyte

Cell

-ectomy

Excision, removal

-emia

Blood condition

-genic

Pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in

-globin

Protein

-gram

Record

-ic, -ical

Pertaining to

-ion

Process

-ist

Specialist

-itis

Inflammation

-logy

Process of study

-oma

Tumor, mass, swelling

-opsy

Process of viewing

-osis

Condition, usually abnormal (increased when used with blood cells)

-pathy

Disease, condition

-scope

Instrument to visually examine

-scopy

Process of visually examining with an endoscope

-sis

State of; condition

-tomy

Process of cutting, incision

-y

Process, condition

EXTRA/ NEW WORDS

EXTRA/ NEW WORDS

 Bursitis

Inflamation of the bursae.

(Bursae- cousion layer around joints)

Teratogenic

Something's ability to cause congenital malformations. 

Cardiomagaly

Condition of having a huge heart (more than 50% of the thoracic cavity)

angio-

Blood vessles

-ostomy

Surgical creation of an opening or connection. 

Chole-

Bile

duc/o

Galbladder

Contraindication

Instruction saying that something that should not be administered to a pt. under certain conditions (Ex: no antibiotics if on birthcontrol)

-version

Discussing a change

Phren/o

Pertaining to the diaphram (Phrenic nerve is the only one that innervates the diaphram)

Norn/o

Normal

Pector/o

Chest

Orth/o

Straight or upright