Medical Terminology Prefix and Root Words, Exams of Nursing

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UTMB MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY NOTECARDS

ab- - Answers-from, away from abdomin/o - Answers-abdomen abort/o - Answers-to miscarry

• ac - Answers-pertaining to aer/o - Answers-air af- - Answers-toward agglutin/o - Answers-clumping, gluing agora- - Answers-marketplace
• al - Answers-pertaining to albin/o - Answers-white albumin/o - Answers-albumin (protein)
• algesia - Answers-pain
• algia - Answers-pain allo- - Answers-other, differing from the normal alveol/o - Answers-alveolus; air sac ambly/o - Answers-dull, dim amni/o - Answers-amnion (amniotic sac) an- - Answers-without, not an/o - Answers-anus ana- - Answers-against; up; back andr/o - Answers-male aneurysm/o - Answers-widened blood vessel

angi/o - Answers-Vessel (usually blood or lymph) aniso- - Answers-unequal, dissimilar ankyl/o - Answers-stiffness; bent, crooked ante- - Answers-before, in front of anter/o - Answers-anterior, front anthrac/o - Answers-coal, coal dust anti- - Answers-against aort/o - Answers-aorta append/o - Answers-appendix appendic/o - Answers-appendix aque/o - Answers-water

• ar - Answers-pertaining to
• arche - Answers-beginning arteri/o - Answers-artery arteriol/o - Answers-arteriole arter/o - Answers-artery acid/o - Answers-acid acous/o - Answers-hearing acr/o - Answers-extremity acromi/o - Answers-acomion (projection of scapula)
• acousis - Answers-hearing
• ad - Answers-toward ad- - Answers-toward

aden/o - Answers-gland adenoid/o - Answers-adenoids adip/o - Answers-fat adren/o - Answers-adrenal glands adrenal/o - Answers-adrenal glands arthr/o - Answers-joint

• ary - Answers-pertaining to asbest/o - Answers-asbestos
• asthenia - Answers-weakess, debility astr/o - Answers-star
• ate - Answers-having the form of, possessing atel/o - Answers-incomplete; imperfect ather/o - Answers-fatty plaque
• ation - Answers-process (of) atri/o - Answers-atrium audi/o - Answers-hearing audit/o - Answers-hearing aur/o - Answers-ear auricul/o - Answers-ear auto- - Answers-self, own ax/o - Answers-axis, axon azot/o - Answers-nitrogenous compounds bacteri/o - Answers-bacteria (bacterium)

balan/o - Answers-glans penis bas/o - Answers-base (alkaline, opposite of acid) bi- - Answers-two bil/i - Answers-bile, gall bi/o - Answers-life

• blast - Answers-embryonic cell blast/o - Answers-embryonic cell blephar/o - Answers-eyelid brachi/o - Answers-arm brachy- - Answers-short brady- - Answers-slow bronch/o - Answers-bronchus (plural, bronchi) bronchi/o - Answers-bronchus (bronchi) bronchiol/o - Answers-bronchiole bucc/o - Answers-cheek calc/o - Answers-calcium calcane/o - Answers-calcaneum (heel bone)
• capnia - Answers-carbon dioxide (CO2) carcin/o - Answers-cancer cardi/o - Answers-heart
• cardia - Answers-heart condition carp/o - Answers-carpus (wrist bone) cata- - Answers-down

caud/o - Answers-tail cauter/o - Answers-heat, burn cec/o - Answers-cecum

• cele - Answers-hernia, swelling
• centesis - Answers-surgical puncture cephal/o - Answers-head
• ceps - Answers-head
• ception - Answers-conceiving cerebell/o - Answers-cerebellum cerebr/o - Answers-Cerebrum cervic/o - Answers-neck; cervix uteri (neck of uterus) chalic/o - Answers-limestone cheil/o - Answers-lip chem/o - Answers-chemical; drug chlor/o - Answers-green chol/e - Answers-bile, gall cholangi/o - Answers-bile vessel cholecyst/o - Answers-gallbladder choledoch/o - Answers-bile duct chondr/o - Answers-cartilage chori/o - Answers-chorion choroid/o - Answers-choroid chrom/o - Answers-color

chromat/o - Answers-color

• cide - Answers-killing cine- - Answers-movement cinemat/o - Answers-things that move circum- - Answers-around cirrh/o - Answers-yellow
• cision - Answers-a cutting
• clasia - Answers-to break; surgical fracture
• clasis - Answers-to break; surgical fracture
• clast - Answers-to break clavicul/o - Answers-clavicle (collar bone)
• cleisis - Answers-closure clon/o - Answers-clonus (turmoil)
• clysis - Answers-irrigation, washing coccyg/o - Answers-Coccyx (tailbone) cochle/o - Answers-cochlea col/o - Answers-colon colon/o - Answers-colon colp/o - Answers-vagina condyl/o - Answers-condyle coni/o - Answers-dust conjuctiv/o - Answers-conjuctiva
• continenece - Answers-to hold back

contra- - Answers-against, opposite cor/o - Answers-pupil core/o - Answers-pupil corne/o - Answers-cornea coron/o - Answers-heart corp/o - Answers-body corpor/o - Answers-body cortic/o - Answers-cortex cost/o - Answers-ribs crani/o - Answers-cranium (skull) crin/o - Answers-secrete

• crine - Answers-secrete cruci/o - Answers-cross cry/o - Answers-cold crypt/o - Answers-hidden culd/o - Answers-cul-de-sac
• cusia - Answers-hearing
• cusis - Answers-hearing cutane/o - Answers-skin cyan/o - Answers-blue cycl/o - Answers-ciliary body of eye; circular; cycle
• cyesis - Answers-pregnancy cyst/o - Answers-bladder

cyt/o - Answers-cell

• cyte - Answers-cell dacry/o - Answers-tear; lacrimal apparatus (duct, sac, or gland) dacryocyst/o - Answers-lacrimal sac dactyl/o - Answers-fingers; toes de- - Answers-cessation dendr/o - Answers-tree dent/o - Answers-teeth derm/o - Answers-skin
• derma - Answers-skin dermat/o - Answers-skin
• desis - Answers-binding, fixation (of a bone or joint) di- - Answers-double dia- - Answers-through, across dipl- - Answers-double dipl/o - Answers-double dips/o - Answers-thirst
• dipsia - Answers-thirst dist/o - Answers-far, farthest dors/o - Answers-back (of body) duct/o - Answers-to lead; carry
• duction - Answers-act of leading, bringing, conduction duoden/o - Answers-duodenum (first part of small intestine)

dur/o - Answers-dura matter; hard

• dynia - Answers-pain dys- - Answers-bad; painful; difficult
• eal - Answers-pertaining to ec- - Answers-out, out from echo- - Answers-a repeated sound
• ectasis - Answers-dilation, expansion ecto- - Answers-outside, outward
• ectomy - Answers-excision, removal
• edema - Answers-swelling ef- - Answers-away from electr/o - Answers-electricity
• ema - Answers-state of; condition embol/o - Answers-embolus (plug)
• emesis - Answers-vomiting
• emia - Answers-blood condition emphys/o - Answers-to inflate en- - Answers-in, within encephal/o - Answers-brain end- - Answers-in, within endo- - Answers-in, within enter/o - Answers-intestin (usually small intestine) eosin/o - Answers-dawn (rose-colored)

epi- - Answers-above, upon epididym/o - Answers-epididymis epiglott/o - Answers-epiglottis episi/o - Answers-vulva erythem/o - Answers-red erythemat/o - Answers-red erythr/o - Answers-red eschar/o - Answers-scab

• esis - Answers-condition eso- - Answers-indward esophag/o - Answers-esophagus esthes/o - Answers-feeling
• esthesia - Answers-feeling eti/o - Answers-cause eu- - Answers-good, normal ex- - Answers-out, out from exo- - Answers-outside, outward extra- - Answers-outside faci/o - Answers-face fasci/o - Answers-band, fascia (fibrous membrane supporting and separating muscles) femor/o - Answers-femur (thigh bone)
• ferent - Answers-to carry fibr/o - Answers-fiber, fibrous tissue

fibul/o - Answers-fibula (smaller bone of lower leg) fluor/o - Answers-luminous, fluorescence galact/o - Answers-milk gangli/o - Answers-ganglioin (knot or knotlike mass) gastr/o - Answers-stomach

• gen - Answers-forming, producing, origin gen/o - Answers-forming, producing, origin
• genesis - Answers-forming, producing, origin genit/o - Answers-genitalia gest/o - Answers-pregnancy gingiv/o - Answers-gum(s) glauc/o - Answers-gray gli/o - Answers-glue; neuroglial tissue
• glia - Answers-glue; neuroglial tissue
• globin - Answers-protein glomerul/o - Answers-glomerulus gloss/o - Answers-tongue glott/o - Answers-glottis gluc/o - Answers-sugar, sweetness glucos/o - Answers-sugar, sweetness glyc/o - Answers-sugar, sweetness glycos/o - Answers-sugar, sweetness gnos/o - Answers-knowing

• gonsis - Answers-knowing gonad/o - Answers-gonads, sex glands goni/o - Answers-angle gon/o - Answers-seed (ovum or spermatozoon)
• grade - Answers-to go
• graft - Answers-transplantation
• gram - Answers-record, writing granul/o - Answers-granule
• graph - Answers-instrument for recording
• graphy - Answers-process of recording
• gravida - Answers-pregnant woman gyn/o - Answers-woman, female gynec/o - Answers-woman, female hallucin/o - Answers-hallucination hedon/o - Answers-pleasure hem/o - Answers-blood hemangi/o - Answers-blood vessel hemat/o - Answers-blood hemi- - Answers-one half hepat/o - Answers-liver hetero- - Answers-different hidr/o - Answers-sweat hist/o - Answers-tissue

histi/o - Answers-tissue home/o - Answers-same, alike homeo- - Answers-same, alike homo- - Answers-same humer/o - Answers-humerus (upper arm bone) hydr/o - Answers-water hyp- - Answers-under, below deficient hyper- - Answers-excessive, above normal hyp/o - Answers-under, below, deficient hypn/o - Answers-sleep hypo- - Answers-under, below, deficient hyster/o - Answers-uterus (womb)

• ia - Answers-condition
• iac - Answers-pertaining to
• iasis - Answers-abnormal condition (produced by something specified) iatr/o - Answers-physician; medicine; treatment
• iatry - Answers-medicine;treatment
• ic - Answers-pertianing to
• ical - Answers-pertaining to
• ice - Answers-noun ending ichthy/o - Answers-dry, scaly
• ician - Answers-specialist
• icle - Answers-small, minute

• icterus - Answers-jaundice idi/o - Answers-unknown, peculiar
• ile - Answers-pertaining to ile/o - Answers-ileum (third part of the small intestine) ili/o - Answers-ilium (lateral, flaring porition of the hip bone) im- - Answers-not immun/o - Answers-immune, immunity, safe in- - Answers-in, not
• ine - Answers-pertaining to infer/o - Answers-lower, below infra- - Answers-below, under inguin/o - Answers-groin insulin/o - Answers-insulin inter- - Answers-between intra- - Answers-in, within
• ion - Answers-the act of
• ior - Answers-pertianing to irid/o - Answers-iris
• is - Answers-noun ending isch/o - Answers-to hold back; block ischi/o - Answers-ischium (lower portion of hip bone)
• ism - Answers-condition iso- - Answers-same, equal

• ist - Answers-specialist
• isy - Answers-state of; condition
• itic - Answers-pertaining to
• itis - Answers-inflamation
• ive - Answers-pertaining to
• ization - Answers-process of jaund/o - Answers-yellow jejun/o - Answers-jejunum (second part of the small intestine) kal/i - Answers-potassium (a electrolyte) kary/o - Answers-nucleus kerat/o - Answers-horny tissue; hard; cornea kern/o - Answers-kernel (nucleus) ket/o - Answers-ketone bodies (acids and acetones) keton/o - Answers-ketone bodies (acids and acetones) kinesi/o - Answers-movement
• kinesia - Answers-movement kinet/o - Answers-movement klept/o - Answers-to steal kyph/o - Answers-humpback labi/o - Answers-lip labyrinth/o - Answers-labyrinth (inner ear) lacrim/o - Answers-tear; lacrimal apparatus (duct, sac, or gland) lact/o - Answers-milk

• lalia - Answers-speech, babble lamin/o - Answers-lamina (part of the vertebral arch) lapar/o - Answers-abdomen laryng/o - Answers-larynx (voice box) later/o - Answers-side, to one side lei/o - Answers-smooth leiomy/o - Answers-smooth muscle (visceral)
• lepsy - Answers-seizure lept/o - Answers-thin, slender leuk/o - Answers-white lingu/o - Answers-tongue lip/o - Answers-fat lipid/o - Answers-fat
• listhesis - Answers-slipping
• lith - Answers-stone, calculus lith/o - Answers-stone, calculus lob/o - Answers-lobe log/o - Answers-study of
• logy - Answers-study of
• logist - Answers-specialist in the study of lord/o - Answers-curve, swayback
• lucent - Answers-to shine; clear lumb/o - Answers-loins (lower back)

lymph/o - Answers-lymph lymphaden/o - Answers-lymph gland (node) lymphangi/o - Answers-lymph vessel

• lysis - Answers-separation; destruction; loosening macro- - Answers-large mal- - Answers-bad
• malacia - Answers-softening mamm/o - Answers-breast
• mania - Answers-state of mental disorder, frenzy mast/o - Answers-breast mastoid/o - Answers-mastoid process maxill/o - Answers-maxilla (upper jaw bone) meat/o - Answers-opening, meatus medi- - Answers-middle medi/o - Answers-middle mediastin/o - Answers-mediastinum medull/o - Answers-medulla mega- - Answers-enlargement megal/o - Answers-enlargement
• megaly - Answers-enlargement melan/o - Answers-black men/o - Answers-menses, menstruation meningi/o - Answers-meninges (membranes covering brain and spinal cord)

ment/o - Answers-mind meso- - Answers-middle meta- - Answers-change, beyond metacarp/o - Answers-metacarpus (hand bones) metatars/o - Answers-metatarsus (foot bones)

• meter - Answers-instrument for measuring metr/o - Answers-uterus (womb); measure metri/o - Answers-uterus (womb)
• metry - Answers-act of measuring mi/o - Answers-smaller, less micr/o - Answers-small micro- - Answers-small mono- - Answers-one morph/o - Answers-form, shape, structure muc/o - Answers-mucus multi- - Answers-many, much muscul/o - Answers-muscle mut/a - Answers-genetic change my/o - Answers-muscle myc/o - Answers-fungus (fungi) mydr/o - Answers-widen, enlarge myel/o - Answers-bone marrow; spinal cord muscle myos/o - Answers-muscle

myring/o - Answers-tympanic membrane (eardrum) myx/o - Answers-mucus narc/o - Answers-stupor; mumbness; sleepp nas/o - Answers-nose nat/o - Answers-birth natr/o - Answers-sodium (an electrolyte) necr/o - Answers-death, necrosis neo- - Answers-new nephr/o - Answers-kidney neur/o - Answers-nerve neutr/o - Answers-neutral; neither nid/o - Answers-nest noct/o - Answers-night nucle/o - Answers-nucleus nulli- - Answers-none nyctal/o - Answers-night obstetr/o - Answers-midwife ocul/o - Answers-eye odont/o - Answers-teeth

• oid - Answers-resembling
• ole - Answers-small, minute olig/o - Answers-scanty
• oma - Answers-tumor

omphal/o - Answers-navel (umbilicus) onc/o - Answers-tumor onych/o - Answers-nail oophor/o - Answers-ovary

• opaque - Answers-obscure ophthalm/o - Answers-eye
• opia - Answers-vision
• opsia - Answers-vision
• opsy - Answers-view of opt/o - Answers-eye, vision optic/o - Answers-eye, vision or/o - Answers-mouth orch/o - Answers-testis (plural, testes) orchi/o - Answers-testis (testes) orchid/o - Answers-testis (testes)
• orexia - Answers-appetite orth/o - Answers-Straight
• osis - Answers-abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood cells)
• osmia - Answers-smell oste/o - Answers-bone ot/o - Answers-ear
• ous - Answers-pertaining to ovari/o - Answers-ovary

oxi/o - Answers-oxygen ox/o - Answers-oxygen

• oxia - Answers-oxygen oxy- - Answers-quick, sharp pachy- - Answers-thick pachy- - Answers-thick palat/o - Answers-palate (roof of mouth) pan- - Answers-all pancreat/o - Answers-pancreas
• para - Answers-to bear (offspring) para- - Answers-near, beside; beyond parathyroid/o - Answers-parathyroid glands
• paresis - Answers-paralysis
• partum - Answers-childbirth, labor patell/o - Answers-patella (knee cap) path/o - Answers-disease
• pathy - Answers-disease pector/o - Answers-chest ped/i - Answers-foot; child ped/o - Answers-foot; child pedicul/o - Answers-lice pelv/i - Answers-pelvis pelv/o - Answers-pelvis

pen/o - Answers-penis

• penia - Answers-decrease, deficiency
• pepsia - Answers-digestion per- - Answers-through peri- - Answers-around perine/o - Answers-perineum (are between scrotum [or vulva in the female] and anus) peritone/o - Answers-peritoneum
• pexy - Answers-fixation (of an organ) phac/o - Answers-lens phag/o - Answers-swallowing, eating
• phage - Answers-swallowing, eating
• phagia - Answers-swallowing, eating phalang/o - Answers-phalanges (bones of fingers and toes) pharmaceutic/o - Answers-drug, medicine pharyng/o - Answers-pharynx (throat)
• phasia - Answers-speech phe/o - Answers-dusky, dark
• phil - Answers-attraction for phil/o - Answers-attraction for
• philia - Answers-attraction for phim/o - Answers-muzzle phleb/o - Answers-vein
• phobia - Answers-fear

• phonia - Answers-voice
• phoresis - Answers-carrying, transmission
• phoria - Answers-feeling (mental state) phot/o - Answers-light phren/o - Answers-diaphragm; mind
• phylaxis - Answers-protection
• physis - Answers-growth pil/o - Answers-hair pituitar/o - Answers-pituitary gland
• plakia - Answers-plague plas/o - Answers-formation, growth
• plasia - Answers-formation, growth
• plasm - Answers-formation, growth
• plasty - Answers-surigical repair
• plegia - Answers-paralysis pleur/o - Answers-pleura
• plexy - Answers-stroke
• pnea - Answers-breathing pneum/o - Answers-air; lung pneumon/o - Answers-air; lung pod/o - Answers-foot
• poiesis - Answers-formation, production poikil/o - Answers-varied, irregular

poli/o - Answers-gray; gray matter (of brain or spinal cord) poly- - Answers-many, much polyp/o - Answers-small growth

• porosis - Answers-porous post- - Answers-after, behind poster/o - Answers-black (of body), behind, posterior
• potence - Answers-power
• prandial - Answers-meal pre- - Answers-before, in front of presby/o - Answers-old age primi- - Answers-first pro- - Answers-before, in front of proct/o - Answers-anus, rectum prostat/o - Answers-prostate gland proxim/o - Answers-near, nearest pseudo- - Answers-FALSE psych/o - Answers-mind
• ptosis - Answers-prolapse, downward displacement ptyal/o - Answers-saliva
• ptysis - Answers-spitting pub/o - Answers-pelvis bone (anterior part of pelvic bone) pulmon/o - Answers-lung pupil/o - Answers-pupil

py/o - Answers-pus pyel/o - Answers-renal pelvis pylor/o - Answers-pylorus pyr/o - Answers-fire quadri- - Answers-four rachi/o - Answers-spine radi/o - Answers-radiation, x-ray; radius (lower arm bone on thumb sign) radicul/o - Answers-nerve root rect/o - Answers-rectum ren/o - Answers-kidney reticul/o - Answers-net, mesh retin/o - Answers-retina retro- - Answers-backward, behind rhabd/o - Answers-rod-shaped (striated) rhabdomy/o - Answers-rod-shaped (striated) muscle rhin/o - Answers-nose rhytid/o - Answers-wrinkle roentgen/o - Answers-x-rays

• rrhage - Answers-bursting fourth (of)
• rrhagia - Answers-bursting fourth (of)
• rrhaphy - Answers-suture
• rrhea - Answers-discharge, flow
• rrhexis - Answers-rupture