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

Medical Word Elements

• back of or posterior

• Chondr/o

• cartilage

• Dors/o

• cell

• Arthr/o

• joint

• Med/i

• towards the middle

• Cyt/o

Medical Word Elements

• Calcium or

  Ca

• Crani/o

• neck

• Cervic/o

• Skull

• Calc/o

• Ribs

• Cost/o

• To the side

• Later/o

Medical Word Elements

• Bone

• Lumb/o

• Stomach

• My/o

• Vertebrae

• Osteo

• muscle

• Gastr/o

• lower back spine

• Spin/o

Medical Word Elements

• Chest

• Inguin/o

• Groin region

• Man/i

• Straight

• Thorac/o

• Foot

• Ortho

• Hand

• Ped/i

Medical Word Elements

• Red

• Erythr/o

• Blue

• Leuk/o

• Black

• Melan/o

• Clot

• Thromb/o

• White

• Cyan/o

Medical Word Elements

• Knowing

• Cure

• Specialist in the study

• Gnosis

• Study of

• Logist

• Care

• Desis

• Fusion or Fixation

• Logy

Terms of Surgery

• Suture

• Rraphy

• Loosening or Separation

• Lysis

• Fusion or fixation

• Desis

• Surgical repair or reformation

• Plasty

• Removal

• Ectomy

Suffixes of Surgery

• End of the word

• Stomy

• Incision

• Suffix

• Create an opening

• Tomy

Suffixes related to Diagnosis

• Record

• Scope

• Tool used for visual examination

• Gram

• Instrument of recording

• Graph

• Visual examination

• Scopy

Suffixes Related to Pathology

• Tumor

• Malacia

• Disease

• Penia

• Decrease or Deficiency

• Oma

• Abnormal condition

• Pathy

• Softenin

• Osis