Medical Terminology Suffix/Prefix/Root Words

mal-

• bad or abnormal

• rapid/fast

• false

• backward or behind

tachy-

• slow

• rapid/fast

• to or toward

• breathing

-megaly; macro-

• big

• small

• large

• tall

erythro-

• red

• black

• blood

• many

path/o

• red

• blood

• pathway

• disease

-dynia, -algia

• fear

• pain

• breathing

• inflammation

neo

• tall

• old

• new

• short

dys-

• difficulty or painful

• without

• pertaining to

• causing death

-ia

• treatment

• cut

• pain

• condition of

audi/o

• bored

• hearing

• male

• life