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

Medical Word Elements

• joint

• Arthr/o

• back of or posterior

• Med/i

• towards the middle

• Dors/o

• cell

• Cyt/o

• cartilage

• Chondr/o

Medical Word Elements

• To the side

• Cervic/o

• Calcium or

  Ca

• Calc/o

• Skull

• Cost/o

• Ribs

• Crani/o

• neck

• Later/o

Medical Word Elements

• Vertebrae

• Gastr/o

• muscle

• My/o

• Stomach

• Spin/o

• Bone

• Osteo

• lower back spine

• Lumb/o

Medical Word Elements

• Chest

• Thorac/o

• Straight

• Man/i

• Groin region

• Inguin/o

• Hand

• Ped/i

• Foot

• Ortho

Medical Word Elements

• Clot

• Leuk/o

• White

• Erythr/o

• Blue

• Melan/o

• Red

• Thromb/o

• Black

• Cyan/o

Medical Word Elements

• Knowing

• Cure

• Fusion or Fixation

• Logist

• Study of

• Desis

• Care

• Logy

• Specialist in the study

• Gnosis

Terms of Surgery

• Removal

• Ectomy

• Fusion or fixation

• Rraphy

• Loosening or Separation

• Lysis

• Suture

• Plasty

• Surgical repair or reformation

• Desis

Suffixes of Surgery

• Create an opening

• Stomy

• End of the word

• Tomy

• Incision

• Suffix

Suffixes related to Diagnosis

• Visual examination

• Gram

• Record

• Scope

• Instrument of recording

• Graph

• Tool used for visual examination

• Scopy

Suffixes Related to Pathology

• Decrease or Deficiency

• Osis

• Disease

• Malacia

• Abnormal condition

• Penia

• Tumor

• Pathy

• Softenin

• Oma