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

Medical Word Elements

• back of or posterior

• Dors/o

• cartilage

• Arthr/o

• joint

• Chondr/o

• cell

• Med/i

• towards the middle

• Cyt/o

Medical Word Elements

• neck

• Cost/o

• To the side

• Calc/o

• Ribs

• Later/o

• Calcium or

  Ca

• Cervic/o

• Skull

• Crani/o

Medical Word Elements

• muscle

• Gastr/o

• Vertebrae

• Osteo

• Stomach

• My/o

• lower back spine

• Lumb/o

• Bone

• Spin/o

Medical Word Elements

• Straight

• Thorac/o

• Groin region

• Ortho

• Foot

• Man/i

• Chest

• Inguin/o

• Hand

• Ped/i

Medical Word Elements

• Clot

• Leuk/o

• Blue

• Melan/o

• Black

• Cyan/o

• Red

• Thromb/o

• White

• Erythr/o

Medical Word Elements

• Care

• Logist

• Fusion or Fixation

• Desis

• Knowing

• Gnosis

• Study of

• Logy

• Specialist in the study

• Cure

Terms of Surgery

• Surgical repair or reformation

• Lysis

• Removal

• Desis

• Fusion or fixation

• Rraphy

• Suture

• Plasty

• Loosening or Separation

• Ectomy

Suffixes of Surgery

• Incision

• Tomy

• End of the word

• Suffix

• Create an opening

• Stomy

Suffixes related to Diagnosis

• Visual examination

• Graph

• Tool used for visual examination

• Scopy

• Record

• Scope

• Instrument of recording

• Gram

Suffixes Related to Pathology

• Abnormal condition

• Penia

• Softenin

• Osis

• Disease

• Pathy

• Tumor

• Malacia

• Decrease or Deficiency

• Oma