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

Medical Word Elements

• joint

• Arthr/o

• back of or posterior

• Dors/o

• cartilage

• Cyt/o

• towards the middle

• Chondr/o

• cell

• Med/i

Medical Word Elements

• neck

• Later/o

• To the side

• Calc/o

• Skull

• Cost/o

• Ribs

• Crani/o

• Calcium or

  Ca

• Cervic/o

Medical Word Elements

• lower back spine

• Spin/o

• Vertebrae

• Gastr/o

• Bone

• Lumb/o

• muscle

• My/o

• Stomach

• Osteo

Medical Word Elements

• Chest

• Inguin/o

• Groin region

• Ortho

• Hand

• Ped/i

• Straight

• Thorac/o

• Foot

• Man/i

Medical Word Elements

• Clot

• Cyan/o

• Red

• Leuk/o

• Black

• Erythr/o

• Blue

• Thromb/o

• White

• Melan/o

Medical Word Elements

• Study of

• Desis

• Care

• Logist

• Specialist in the study

• Logy

• Knowing

• Gnosis

• Fusion or Fixation

• Cure

Terms of Surgery

• Loosening or Separation

• Lysis

• Fusion or fixation

• Plasty

• Removal

• Rraphy

• Surgical repair or reformation

• Desis

• Suture

• Ectomy

Suffixes of Surgery

• Incision

• Suffix

• End of the word

• Stomy

• Create an opening

• Tomy

Suffixes related to Diagnosis

• Instrument of recording

• Graph

• Record

• Scopy

• Visual examination

• Scope

• Tool used for visual examination

• Gram

Suffixes Related to Pathology

• Decrease or Deficiency

• Penia

• Abnormal condition

• Oma

• Tumor

• Pathy

• Disease

• Malacia

• Softenin

• Osis