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

Medical Word Elements

• joint

• Dors/o

• towards the middle

• Arthr/o

• back of or posterior

• Chondr/o

• cartilage

• Cyt/o

• cell

• Med/i

Medical Word Elements

• To the side

• Cost/o

• Ribs

• Calc/o

• Skull

• Later/o

• neck

• Cervic/o

• Calcium or

  Ca

• Crani/o

Medical Word Elements

• Vertebrae

• Lumb/o

• lower back spine

• Gastr/o

• Stomach

• Spin/o

• Bone

• My/o

• muscle

• Osteo

Medical Word Elements

• Foot

• Man/i

• Hand

• Ped/i

• Chest

• Thorac/o

• Groin region

• Inguin/o

• Straight

• Ortho

Medical Word Elements

• Clot

• Leuk/o

• Black

• Cyan/o

• Red

• Melan/o

• White

• Thromb/o

• Blue

• Erythr/o

Medical Word Elements

• Fusion or Fixation

• Cure

• Specialist in the study

• Gnosis

• Knowing

• Logist

• Care

• Logy

• Study of

• Desis

Terms of Surgery

• Fusion or fixation

• Rraphy

• Removal

• Desis

• Surgical repair or reformation

• Lysis

• Suture

• Plasty

• Loosening or Separation

• Ectomy

Suffixes of Surgery

• Create an opening

• Stomy

• End of the word

• Tomy

• Incision

• Suffix

Suffixes related to Diagnosis

• Record

• Scope

• Visual examination

• Scopy

• Tool used for visual examination

• Gram

• Instrument of recording

• Graph

Suffixes Related to Pathology

• Disease

• Penia

• Softenin

• Malacia

• Abnormal condition

• Pathy

• Tumor

• Oma

• Decrease or Deficiency

• Osis