WorksheetsMedical Terminology Suffix/Prefix/Root Words
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
mal-
bad or abnormal
rapid/fast
false
backward or behind
tachy-
slow
rapid/fast
to or toward
breathing
-megaly; macro-
big
small
large
tall
erythro-
red
black
blood
many
path/o
red
blood
pathway
disease
-dynia, -algia
fear
pain
breathing
inflammation
neo
tall
old
new
short
dys-
difficulty or painful
without
pertaining to
causing death
-ia
treatment
cut
pain
condition of
audi/o
bored
hearing
male
life
-itis
inflammtion
pain
pertaining to
measurement
-logy
treatment
study of
surgical removal of
measurement
xen/o
parent
life
stranger, foreigner
child
inter-
above
beside
between
before
-ac; -ic; -al
hardening
inflammation
condition of
pertaining to
andr/o
before
male
female
with
hem/o; hemat/o
blood
red
bleeding
apple
pseudo-
past
false
true
present
ab-
above
under
away from
toward
-pnea
condition
nutrition
inflammation
breathing
-sect
surgical repair
cut
burn
grow
-cyte
create
cell
study
measure
-osis; -iasis
destruction of
abnormal condition
cutting into
study of
viv/o
life
death
creation
destruction
leuk/o
black
hard
white
soft
