Medical terminology chapter 2-5
Ab
Away
Dys -
Bad or difficult
Partum
Birth
Spasm
Cramping, twitching
Necro
Dead
Symptom
Describing what the problem is
Dipl/o
Double
Otio
Ear
Phagia, phage
Eating or swelling
Pyro
Fire
Primi
First
Cyro
Hand
en, end, endo
Inside
Acute
Less than 6months to live
Para
Live birth
Abcess
Localize puss surrounded by a capsule
pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o
Lung
Chronic
More than 6months
Nulli
None
in-
Not or inside
-AC, -al, -ic
Pertaining to
-an, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ive, -tic
Pertaining to
Gravida
Pregnancy
prote/o
Protein
Vital signs
Pulse rate, respiration rate, temperature
Py/o
Pus
erythro -
Red
Ipsi
Same
Malacia
Soft or softening
Signs
Something you can see
Ose
Sugar
pexy
Surgical fixation
blood pressure (BP)
Systolic and dialostic
dips/o
Thirst
hist/o
Tissue
Palpation
To feel by touch
Tosis
To sag/drooping
scopy (suffix)
To see with the help of a instrument
Ad
Toward
bi,di
Two
Opia
Vision
ecto, ex, exo, extra
Without
orthopnea
ability to breathe only in an upright position
Epi
above
Trans
across, through
Contra
against, opposite
aer/o
air
Append/o
appendix
Circum, peri
around
Ante, pre
before
nat/o
birth
melan/o
black
Angi
blood vessel
cyan/o
blue
myel/o
bone marrow, spinal cord
Pnea
breath
Ultra
excessive
Mania
excessive preoccupation
ophthalm/o
eye
blephar/o
eyelid
tachy-
fast
Phobia
fear
gynec/o
female
Penta
five
Quad
four
eu-
good, normal
Cele
hernia, swelling
crypt/o
hidden
enter/o
intestine
laryng/o
larynx (voice box)
obstetr/o
midwife
lact/o
milk
kinesia, kinesis
movement
Muc/o
mucus
neur/o
nerves
ne/o
new
a-, an-
no, not, without
rhin/o
nose
ectopic
out of place
dynia/algia
pain
pyoderma
puss in the skin
Oid
resembling
esthesi/o
sensation
Lateral
side
cutane/o, derm/o, dermat/o
skin
dermat/o
skin
brady-
slow
-phasia
speech
amyl/o
starch
Stasis
stopping or controlling
ortho
straight
Stomy
surgical opening
centesis
surgical puncture to remove fluid
Plasty
surgical repair
Edema
swelling in body tissues caused by excess fluid
Tri
three
Tripsy
to crush
trache/o
trachea, windpipe
ur/o
urinary tract (or urine)
alb/o, albin/o, leuk/o
white