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

Medical Word Elements

• cartilage

• Chondr/o

• joint

• Dors/o

• back of or posterior

• Med/i

• cell

• Arthr/o

• towards the middle

• Cyt/o

Medical Word Elements

• neck

• Cost/o

• To the side

• Calc/o

• Skull

• Cervic/o

• Calcium or

  Ca

• Crani/o

• Ribs

• Later/o

Medical Word Elements

• lower back spine

• My/o

• Stomach

• Gastr/o

• Vertebrae

• Osteo

• Bone

• Lumb/o

• muscle

• Spin/o

Medical Word Elements

• Hand

• Thorac/o

• Chest

• Ped/i

• Foot

• Man/i

• Groin region

• Ortho

• Straight

• Inguin/o

Medical Word Elements

• Red

• Thromb/o

• Blue

• Melan/o

• Black

• Cyan/o

• White

• Erythr/o

• Clot

• Leuk/o

Medical Word Elements

• Care

• Desis

• Study of

• Logist

• Knowing

• Logy

• Fusion or Fixation

• Cure

• Specialist in the study

• Gnosis

Terms of Surgery

• Removal

• Plasty

• Surgical repair or reformation

• Lysis

• Loosening or Separation

• Rraphy

• Suture

• Desis

• Fusion or fixation

• Ectomy

Suffixes of Surgery

• Create an opening

• Stomy

• End of the word

• Suffix

• Incision

• Tomy

Suffixes related to Diagnosis

• Record

• Gram

• Tool used for visual examination

• Scope

• Instrument of recording

• Graph

• Visual examination

• Scopy

Suffixes Related to Pathology

• Disease

• Pathy

• Softenin

• Penia

• Abnormal condition

• Oma

• Decrease or Deficiency

• Malacia

• Tumor

• Osis