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