Intro to Med Term Review - Prefix, Suffix, and Word Elements

Medical Word Elements

• joint

• Med/i

• back of or posterior

• Arthr/o

• towards the middle

• Chondr/o

• cell

• Cyt/o

• cartilage

• Dors/o

Medical Word Elements

• To the side

• Crani/o

• Ribs

• Cost/o

• Skull

• Cervic/o

• Calcium or

  Ca

• Later/o

• neck

• Calc/o

Medical Word Elements

• lower back spine

• Lumb/o

• Vertebrae

• Gastr/o

• Bone

• My/o

• Stomach

• Spin/o

• muscle

• Osteo

Medical Word Elements

• Foot

• Inguin/o

• Groin region

• Thorac/o

• Chest

• Ortho

• Hand

• Man/i

• Straight

• Ped/i

Medical Word Elements

• Blue

• Leuk/o

• Black

• Erythr/o

• Red

• Cyan/o

• White

• Melan/o

• Clot

• Thromb/o

Medical Word Elements

• Study of

• Logy

• Specialist in the study

• Gnosis

• Care

• Cure

• Knowing

• Desis

• Fusion or Fixation

• Logist

Terms of Surgery

• Removal

• Lysis

• Fusion or fixation

• Rraphy

• Loosening or Separation

• Ectomy

• Surgical repair or reformation

• Desis

• Suture

• Plasty

Suffixes of Surgery

• End of the word

• Stomy

• Create an opening

• Tomy

• Incision

• Suffix

Suffixes related to Diagnosis

• Tool used for visual examination

• Scope

• Record

• Graph

• Visual examination

• Gram

• Instrument of recording

• Scopy

Suffixes Related to Pathology

• Abnormal condition

• Malacia

• Tumor

• Osis

• Decrease or Deficiency

• Pathy

• Disease

• Penia

• Softenin

• Oma