Medical Prefixes and Suffixes

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-ac -al -algia adeno/o abdomin/o adip/o adeno/o abdomin/o adip/o a-,an-

pertaining to

anaante arthr/o bio carcin/o cardi/o cephal/o cerebr/o cervic/o chondr/o

back, again, up

pertaining to

before/in front of

pain

joints

gland

life

abdomen

cancer

fat

heart

gland

head

abdomen

brain

fat

neck, cervix

absence of

cartilage

chrom/o cis/o cyst/o -cyte cyt/o derm/o diadist/o dors/o -eal

color

-ectomy electr/o -emia encephal/o endoepiexexoenter/o erythr/o

surgical operation/removal of a body part electricity

tu cut

urinary bladder

blood condition

cell

brain

cell

inside

skin through, during, across stand away from

on, upon

out of, away from

outside, external

back

intestine

pertaining

red

gastr/o -genic gnos/o -gram gynec/o hemat/o hem hepat/o hist/o hyper-

stomach formative, pertaining to producing knowledge

hypo iatr/o -ic,-iac, iacal inguin/o inguen -ist -itis kary/o later/o leuk/ log/o

below normal

treatment

pertaining to

record

groin one who specializes in inflammation

woman

blood

blood

nucleous

liver

lateral

tissue

white

excessive, extreme

knowledge

-logy lumb/o medi/o nephr/o neur/o -oma -osis onc/o ophthalm/o oste/o

study of

path/o -pathy ped/o pelv/o poster/o proproxim/o psych/o radi/o re-

illness

lower back

disease, or disorder

middle

child

kidney

hip bone

neurous system

behind/after

tumor, bulkl, volume condition, disease or increase tumor

before

near

mind

eye

X-rays

bone

again, backwards

ren/o retrorhin/o sarc/o -scope -scopy subspin/o thel/o thorac/o

kidney

thromb/o trache/o trans-type umbilic/o ur/o ventr/o vertebr/o viscer/o -y

blood clot

backward, behind

trachea

nose

across, through

fleshlike instrument for viewing use of instrument for viewing beneath

classification, image

umbilicus

urine

stomach cavity

spine

vertebra

nipple

internal organs

chest

process, condition

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