Medical terms word roots and combining vowels

cardi/o

• heart

• to cut

• chemical

• lung

pulmon/o

• heart

• disease

• lung

• breathing

what are the parts of a medical word

• prefix

• nouns

• suffix

• adverb

• root word

hemat/o

• disease

• fluid

• vessel

• blood

gastr/o

• female

• liver

• small intestine

• stomach

derm

• skin

• muscle

• vein

• teeth

bone

• arthro

• oto

• cephalo

• osteo

arthro

• joint

• muscle

• bone

• ear

fat

• chemo

• lippid

• lipid

• toxo

What is a combining vowel

• a letter that makes it easier to pronounce word

• a letter to join 2 parts of a word

• a, e, i, o, y

• any letter that makes a word easier to pronounce