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ab- ✔✔from, away from
abdomin/o ✔✔abdomen
abort/o ✔✔to miscarry
-ac ✔✔pertaining to
acid/o ✔✔acid
acous/o ✔✔hearing
acr/o ✔✔extremity
acromi/o ✔✔acomion (projection of scapula)
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Medical Terminology: A Comprehensive Glossary of Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words, Exams of Medicine
A valuable resource for students learning medical terminology. it presents an extensive list of prefixes, suffixes, and root words commonly used in the medical field, each with its definition. This glossary is an excellent tool for building a strong foundation in medical language and understanding medical texts and communications.
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ab- ✔✔from, away from abdomin/o ✔✔abdomen abort/o ✔✔to miscarry
- ac ✔✔pertaining to acid/o ✔✔acid acous/o ✔✔hearing acr/o ✔✔extremity acromi/o ✔✔acomion (projection of scapula)
- acousis ✔✔hearing
- ad ✔✔toward ad- ✔✔toward aden/o ✔✔gland adenoid/o ✔✔adenoids adip/o ✔✔fat adren/o ✔✔adrenal glands adrenal/o ✔✔adrenal glands
allo- ✔✔other, differing from the normal alveol/o ✔✔alveolus; air sac ambly/o ✔✔dull, dim amni/o ✔✔amnion (amniotic sac) an- ✔✔without, not an/o ✔✔anus ana- ✔✔against; up; back andr/o ✔✔male
aneurysm/o ✔✔widened blood vessel angi/o ✔✔Vessel (usually blood or lymph) aniso- ✔✔unequal, dissimilar ankyl/o ✔✔stiffness; bent, crooked ante- ✔✔before, in front of anter/o ✔✔anterior, front anthrac/o ✔✔coal, coal dust anti- ✔✔against aort/o ✔✔aorta
arthr/o ✔✔joint -ary ✔✔pertaining to asbest/o ✔✔asbestos -asthenia ✔✔weakess, debility astr/o ✔✔star -ate ✔✔having the form of, possessing atel/o ✔✔incomplete; imperfect ather/o ✔✔fatty plaque -ation ✔✔process (of)
atri/o ✔✔atrium audi/o ✔✔hearing audit/o ✔✔hearing aur/o ✔✔ear auricul/o ✔✔ear auto- ✔✔self, own ax/o ✔✔axis, axon azot/o ✔✔nitrogenous compounds
brachi/o ✔✔arm brachy- ✔✔short brady- ✔✔slow bronch/o ✔✔bronchus (plural, bronchi) bronchi/o ✔✔bronchus (bronchi) bronchiol/o ✔✔bronchiole bucc/o ✔✔cheek calc/o ✔✔calcium
calcane/o ✔✔calcaneum (heel bone) -capnia ✔✔carbon dioxide (CO2) carcin/o ✔✔cancer cardi/o ✔✔heart -cardia ✔✔heart condition carp/o ✔✔carpus (wrist bone) cata- ✔✔down caud/o ✔✔tail cauter/o ✔✔heat, burn
cervic/o ✔✔neck; cervix uteri (neck of uterus) chalic/o ✔✔limestone cheil/o ✔✔lip chem/o ✔✔chemical; drug chlor/o ✔✔green chol/e ✔✔bile, gall cholangi/o ✔✔bile vessel cholecyst/o ✔✔gallbladder choledoch/o ✔✔bile duct
chondr/o ✔✔cartilage chori/o ✔✔chorion choroid/o ✔✔choroid chrom/o ✔✔color chromat/o ✔✔color -cide ✔✔killing cine- ✔✔movement cinemat/o ✔✔things that move
-clysis ✔✔irrigation, washing coccyg/o ✔✔Coccyx (tailbone) cochle/o ✔✔cochlea col/o ✔✔colon colon/o ✔✔colon colp/o ✔✔vagina condyl/o ✔✔condyle coni/o ✔✔dust
conjuctiv/o ✔✔conjuctiva -continenece ✔✔to hold back contra- ✔✔against, opposite cor/o ✔✔pupil core/o ✔✔pupil corne/o ✔✔cornea coron/o ✔✔heart corp/o ✔✔body corpor/o ✔✔body
culd/o ✔✔cul-de-sac -cusia ✔✔hearing -cusis ✔✔hearing cutane/o ✔✔skin cyan/o ✔✔blue cycl/o ✔✔ciliary body of eye; circular; cycle -cyesis ✔✔pregnancy cyst/o ✔✔bladder cyt/o ✔✔cell
-cyte ✔✔cell dacry/o ✔✔tear; lacrimal apparatus (duct, sac, or gland) dacryocyst/o ✔✔lacrimal sac dactyl/o ✔✔fingers; toes de- ✔✔cessation dendr/o ✔✔tree dent/o ✔✔teeth derm/o ✔✔skin