FHS: Medical Terminology: Prefixes, Root Words, and Suffixes

malacia

• abnormal softening

• abnormal hardening

• normal

• tissue death

Craniotomy

• cutting into the face

• cutting into the skull

• cutting into the head

• cutting into the brain

-pathy

• a path
• enlargement
• disease
• pain

sclerosis

• abnormal softening

• abnormal hardening

• tissue death

• normal

What does the prefix-super refer to?

• excellent

• over or above

• absense of

• against

-ic

• full of

• pertaining to

• to cut into

• resembling, like

Hematology

• the study of blood
• the study of the brain
• the study of movement
• the study of disease

dynia

• pain

• euphoria

• stressed

• proud

ad

• away from

• toward

• before

• after

________penia- reduced number of white blood cells

• Electro

• Leuko

• Thromb

• Veno