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

Medical Word Elements

• cartilage

• Cyt/o

• towards the middle

• Arthr/o

• joint

• Dors/o

• back of or posterior

• Chondr/o

• cell

• Med/i

Medical Word Elements

• Ribs

• Later/o

• Calcium or

  Ca

• Cervic/o

• Skull

• Cost/o

• neck

• Crani/o

• To the side

• Calc/o

Medical Word Elements

• Vertebrae

• Osteo

• lower back spine

• Gastr/o

• Bone

• My/o

• Stomach

• Spin/o

• muscle

• Lumb/o

Medical Word Elements

• Groin region

• Man/i

• Hand

• Thorac/o

• Straight

• Inguin/o

• Chest

• Ortho

• Foot

• Ped/i

Medical Word Elements

• Red

• Cyan/o

• Blue

• Erythr/o

• White

• Melan/o

• Clot

• Leuk/o

• Black

• Thromb/o

Medical Word Elements

• Fusion or Fixation

• Gnosis

• Specialist in the study

• Desis

• Knowing

• Cure

• Study of

• Logist

• Care

• Logy

Terms of Surgery

• Surgical repair or reformation

• Plasty

• Suture

• Ectomy

• Removal

• Lysis

• Loosening or Separation

• Desis

• Fusion or fixation

• Rraphy

Suffixes of Surgery

• Create an opening

• Stomy

• Incision

• Suffix

• End of the word

• Tomy

Suffixes related to Diagnosis

• Visual examination

• Scope

• Record

• Gram

• Tool used for visual examination

• Scopy

• Instrument of recording

• Graph

Suffixes Related to Pathology

• Tumor

• Pathy

• Softenin

• Malacia

• Disease

• Penia

• Abnormal condition

• Osis

• Decrease or Deficiency

• Oma