Medical Terminology: Prefixes, Root Words, and Suffixes

________logist- scientist who studies the causes and effects of disease

• Arterio

• Hemo

• Pneumo

• Patho

malacia

• abnormal softening

• abnormal hardening

• normal

• tissue death

-itis

• flow, discharge 
• enlargement
• bursting forth
• inflammation

sclerosis

• abnormal softening

• abnormal hardening

• tissue death

• normal

Erythr/o

• blue

• purple

• white

• red

________sclerosis- hardening of artery walls

• Hemo

• Leuko

• Arterio

• Patho

ab

• away from

• midline

• toward

• outside

Vein

• phleb/o, my/o

• ven/o, vascul/o

• angi/o, phleb/o

• ven/o, phleb/o

cut into or incision

• -ectomy
• -tomy
• -scopy
• -scope

The prefix "peri" means

• around

• slow

• vein

• against