combining form,Prefix and Sufix
-e
(noun suffix with no meaning)
-osis
abnormal condition
trans-
across
adenoid/o
adenoids
anti-
against
arteri/o
artery
pro-
before, forward
hem, hem/o, hemat, hemat/o
blood
-emia
blood condition
myel/o
bone marrow, spinal cord
-lysis
break down
ly/o
break down; dissolve; loosen
-phoresis
carrying, transmission
-cyte
cell
cyt/o
cell
meta-
change, beyond
-in , _ine
chemical
thromb/o
clot
agglutin/o
clumping; sticking together
-ia
condition
-penia
deficiency
-blast
developing cell
path/o
disease
-phage
eat, swallow
phag/o
eat, swallow
-megaly
enlargement
-plasm
formation
-poiesis
formation
fung/o
fungus
immun/o
immune, protection, safe
en-
in , within
-itis
inflammation
macro-
large
mega-
large
-phil , -philia
love; attraction for
lymph/o, lymphat/o
lymph
lymphaden/o
lymph node
lymphangi/o
lymphatic vessel
poly-
many, much
neo-
new
a- , an-
not, without
kary/o
nucleus
nucle/o
nucleus
epi-
on; over; upon
mono-
one, single
-al , -ar , -ic , -ical , -tic
pertaining to
-emic
pertaining to blood condition
-lytic
pertaining to destruction
-plastic
pertaining to formation
iatr/o
physician, treatment
tox/o
poison
vir/o
poison
-tomy
process of cutting, incision
-ation
process, condition
-globulin
protein
erythr/o
red
-pheresis
removal
-rrhage
repture
auto-
self
ser/o
serum, serous
morph/o
shape, form
-logist
specialist
splen/o
spleen
-sis
state, condition
-stasis
stopping, controlling
log/o
study
-logy
study of
-gen
substance or agent that produces or causes
-ectomy
surgical removal
-plasty
surgical repair
thym/o
thymus
-fusion
to pour , to come together
-crit
to separate
-suppression
to stop
con-
together , with
tonsill/o
tonsils
-therapy
treatment
-oma
tumor, mass
phleb/o
vein
ven/i, ven/o
vein
angi/o
vessel (blood)
leuk/o
white
