1
Q
The essential meaning of the term
A
Root
2
Q
Word ending
A
Suffix
3
Q
Small part added to the beginning of the term
A
Prefix
4
Q
Connects roots to suffixes and roots to other roots
A
Combining vowel
5
Q
The combination of the root and the combining vowel
A
Combining form
6
Q
Electricity
A
Electro/o
7
Q
Heart
A
Cardi/o
8
Q
Record
A
gram
9
Q
Under
A
Sub
10
Q
Stomach
A
Gastr/o
11
Q
Pertaining to
A
-ic ; -al
12
Q
Gland
A
aden/o
13
Q
Joint
A
Arthr/o
14
Q
Life
A
Bi/o
15
Q
Cancer, Cancerous
A
Carcin/o
16
Q
Cerebrum, largest part of the brain
A
Cerebr/o
17
Q
Urinary bladder
A
Cyst/o
18
Q
Cell
A
Cyt/o
19
Q
Skin
A
Derm/o
20
Q
Brain
A
Encephal/o
21
Q
Intestines (often small intestines)
A
Enter/o
22
Q
Red
A
Erythr/o
23
Q
Knowledge
A
Gnos/o
24
Q
Woman, female
A
Gynec/o
25
Blood
Hem/o; Hemat/o
26
Liver
Hepat/o
27
Abdomen
Lapar/o
28
White
Leuk/o
29
Kidney
Nephr/o; Ren/o
30
Nerve
Neur/o
31
Tumor (prefix)
Onc/o
32
Eye
Opthalm/o
33
Bone
Oste/o
34
Disease
Path/o
35
Mind
Psych/o
36
Nose
Rhin/o
37
Flesh
Sarc/o
38
Clotting
Thromb/o
39
Pain (suffix)
-algia
40
Cell (suffix)
-cyte
41
Cutting out; removal, excision
-ectomy
42
Blood condition
-emia
43
Protein
-globin
44
Condition
-ia
45
Condition, process
-ism
46
Inflammation
-itis
47
Specialist in the study of
-logist
48
Study of
-logy
49
Tumor, mass
-oma
50
Process of viewing
-opsy
51
Abnormal condition
-osis
52
Instrument to visually examine
-scope
53
Process of visual examination
-scopy
54
State of
-sis
55
Process of cutting into (incision) (suffix)
-tomy
56
no, not
a- , an-
57
Self
aut-
58
Complete, through
Dia-
59
Bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
Dys-
60
Within
Endo-
61
Above, upon, on
Epi-
62
Outside
Exo-
63
Excessive, more than normal, too much
Hyper-
64
Below, less than normal, under
Hypo-
65
All
Pan-
66
Surrounding
Peri-
67
Before, forward
Pro-
68
Back
Re-
69
Behind
Retro-
70
Below, under
Sub-
71
Across, through
Trans-
72
Cephal/o
Head
