Medical Prefix and Suffixes
Bi-
What is the prefix for two?
A- or An-
What 2 medical prefix means no, not, or without?
En- and endo-
What 2 prefixes means inside, or within?
Dorsal
What anatomical direction that is pertaining to the back?
Coronary Artery Disease
What does CAD stand for?
Congestive Heart Failure
What does CHF stand for?
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
What does COPD stand for?
Usually "o", links the root to the suffix or the root to another root
What does Combining vowel mean?
DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
What does DNA stand for?
Electrocardiogram
What does EKG stands for?
combination of the root and the combining vowel
What does combining form mean?
cryptorchidism; cryptorchism
What is 2 medical words that mean undescended testicles?
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
What is the abbreviation for ARDS mean?
Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
What is the abbreviation for BPH means?
Anterior
What is the anatomical direction for pertaining to the front of the body?
Distal
What is the anatomical direction that is pertaining to far from body?
Dermat/o
What is the combining form for Skin? (------ology)
Derm/o
What is the combining form for Skin? (hypo----ic)
Abdomin/o
What is the combining form for abdomen?
Adenoid/o
What is the combining form for adenoids?
Brachi/o
What is the combining form for arm?
Arteri/o
What is the combining form for artery?
Cyan/o
What is the combining form for blue?
Bronchi/o
What is the combining form for bronchial tube?
Bronch/o
What is the combining form for bronchus?
Capn/o
What is the combining form for carbon dioxide?
Chrondr/o
What is the combining form for cartilage?
cyt/o
What is the combining form for cell?
Cerebr/o
What is the combining form for cerebrum (largest part of the brain)?
Coccyg/o
What is the combining form for coccyx (tailbone)?
Cry/o
What is the combining form for cold?
Chem/o
What is the combining form for drug, chemical?
Dist/o
What is the combining form for far and distant?
adip/o
What is the combining form for fat?
Dactyl/o
What is the combining form for fingers and toes?
Anter/o
What is the combining form for front?
Balan/o
What is the combining form for glans penis?
Cephal/o
What is the combining form for head?
Cardi/o
What is the combining form for heart?
Crypt/o
What is the combining form for hidden?
Arthr/o
What is the combining form for joint?
Bi/o
What is the combining form for life?
Andr/o
What is the combining form for male?
Cervic/o
What is the combining form for neck, cervix?
Coron/o
What is the combining form for pertaining to the heart?
Diaphor/o
What is the combining form for profuse sweating?
Cutane/o
What is the combining form for skin?
Dips/o
What is the combining form for thirst?
Cis/o
What is the combining form for to cut or to make an incision?
Cyst/o
What is the combining form for urinary bladder (sac containing fluid)?
Colp/o
What is the combining form for vagina?
Angi/o
What is the combining form for vessel?
Albin/o
What is the combining form for white?
Ather/o
What is the combining form for yellowish plaque?
Crin/o
What is the combining form to secrete (to form and give off)?
Auto-
What is the medical prefix for self?
Brady-
What is the medical prefix for slow?
-ectasis
What is the medical suffix for dilation, widening?
-ectomy
What is the medical suffix for excision, removal?
-algia
What is the medical suffix for pain?
-al
What is the medical suffix for pertaining to?
-ary
What is the medical suffix for pertaining to?
-eal
What is the medical suffix for pertaining to?
Aorta
What is the medical term for largest artery in the body
Bronchus
What is the medical word for Branches of the trachea (windpipe) that is a passageway into the lung?
Dyspnea
What is the medical word for abnormal or difficulty breathing?
Congenital anomaly
What is the medical word for birth defect, irregularity in a structure or organ?
Diarrhea
What is the medical word for frequent discharge of liquid stool?
Diaphragm
What is the medical word for muscles seperating the abdominal and thoracic cavities?
Diastole
What is the medical word for relaxation phase of the heartbeat?
Atria (atrium)
What is the medical word for the two upper chambers of the heart?
Cyst
What is the medical word for thick-walled, closed sac or pouch containing fluid or semisolid material?
Constriction
What is the medical word for to squeeze or pressure of tightness?
Alopecia
What is the medical word that means absence of hair from areas where it normally grows?
Eczema
What is the medical word that means inflammatory skin disease with erythematous, papulovesicular, papalosquamous lesions?
Contra-
What is the prefix for against, opposite?
Dys-
What is the prefix for bad, painful, difficult, abnormal?
Dia-
What is the prefix for complete and through?
-cyte
What is the suffix for cell?
-dynia
What is the suffix for pain?
-centesis
What is the suffix for surgical puncture to remove fluid?
-cele
What is the suffix that stand for hernia?
Anabolism
What is the word for the process of building up large proteins?
Coronal cut
What kind of cut does dividing the body from front and back?
Electr/o
What medical combining for means electricity?
Encephal/o
What medical combining form means brain?
Anti-
What medical prefix means against?
Ab-
What medical prefix means away from?
Ad-
What medical prefix means toward?
-emia
What medical suffix means blood condition?
-ac
What medical suffix means pertaining to?
Aneurysm
What medical word means Widening (or dilation) of an artery?
Cyanosis
What medical word means bluish discoloration of the skin or mucous membrane due to lack of oxygen?
Emphysema
What medical word means hyperinflation of air sacs with destruction of alveolar walls?
Arrhythmia
What medical word means irregular heartbeat?
Endoplasmic Reticulum
What medical word means network of canals within the cytoplasm of the cell. Here, large proteins are made from smaller protein pieces?
Carcin/o
what is the combining form for cancer, cancerous?
Aden/o
what is the combining form for gland?
-cyesis
what is the prefix for pregnancy?
Abscess
what medical word means collection of pus?