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

Medical Word Elements

• towards the middle

• Med/i

• back of or posterior

• Dors/o

• cartilage

• Cyt/o

• joint

• Chondr/o

• cell

• Arthr/o

Medical Word Elements

• Calcium or

  Ca

• Later/o

• To the side

• Cost/o

• Ribs

• Calc/o

• neck

• Crani/o

• Skull

• Cervic/o

Medical Word Elements

• Vertebrae

• My/o

• Stomach

• Gastr/o

• Bone

• Lumb/o

• lower back spine

• Spin/o

• muscle

• Osteo

Medical Word Elements

• Straight

• Ortho

• Foot

• Inguin/o

• Chest

• Man/i

• Hand

• Ped/i

• Groin region

• Thorac/o

Medical Word Elements

• Clot

• Thromb/o

• Blue

• Erythr/o

• Red

• Leuk/o

• White

• Cyan/o

• Black

• Melan/o

Medical Word Elements

• Fusion or Fixation

• Gnosis

• Care

• Logy

• Study of

• Logist

• Knowing

• Desis

• Specialist in the study

• Cure

Terms of Surgery

• Removal

• Rraphy

• Suture

• Desis

• Surgical repair or reformation

• Plasty

• Fusion or fixation

• Lysis

• Loosening or Separation

• Ectomy

Suffixes of Surgery

• Incision

• Suffix

• End of the word

• Tomy

• Create an opening

• Stomy

Suffixes related to Diagnosis

• Instrument of recording

• Scope

• Visual examination

• Graph

• Tool used for visual examination

• Gram

• Record

• Scopy

Suffixes Related to Pathology

• Disease

• Osis

• Softenin

• Malacia

• Tumor

• Penia

• Decrease or Deficiency

• Pathy

• Abnormal condition

• Oma