BIOL 2401/2402 Anatomy and Physiology Medical Word Part Vocabulary List: Prefixes-, -suffixes, Root words/ combing vowel
| a-, an- without | ab-, from | abyss-, deep | -ac, pertaining to | acou/o , hearing |
| acr/o, extremity; peak | ad-, to or toward | aden/o, gland | adren/o, adrenal | adip/o, fat |
| aer/o, air | af-, to; toward | agglutinat-, glued together | -agra, air | -al, pertaining to; condition of |
| alb/o , white | -algia, pain | allo/o , other; different | alveol/i, cavity | amphi- , both; double |
| ana- , up; back | andr/o, male | angi/o, vessel | ankyl/o, crooked | ante-, before |
| ant-, anti- against | apo-, from or off | aqu/a, water | arachn/o, spider | arch/e, ancient |
| arter/o, artery | arthr/o, joint | articul/o, joint | asc/o, sac | -ase, enzyme |
| -asis, -asia, state or condition | -asthenia, weakness | astr/o , star | -ate, do | atel-, imperfect |
| audi-, hearing | aur/o, ear | auto-, self | aux-, envelope | axilla, armpit |
| bacil/o, rod | balan/o, glans penis | bas/o, basic | bar/o, pressure | bi-/ bis, twice |
| bi/o, -bios, life | blast-, -blast , precursor | bol/o, throw | brachi/o, arm | brachy- , short |
| brady-, slow | blephar/o, eyelid | bronch/i, windpipe; airway | bucc/o, cheek | burs/o, bag or bursa |
| calc, calci/o, calcium | calc/i, stone | carcin/o, cancer | cardi/o, heart | cat/a, down |
| cec/o, blind | -cele, hernia; tumor; swelling | -centesis, puncture | centr/o, center | cephal/o, head |
| cerebr/o, brain | cervic/o, neck | cheil/o, lip | chem/o, chemical | chol/e, bile |
| chori/o, fetal membrane | chondr/o, cartilage | chrom/o, color | chy/o, pour | cid/e, -cise, cut; kill |
| cili/o, eyelid | circum-, around | -clast, break; tear down | coel-, -coel, cavity | col/o-, colon |
| colp/o, vagina | co, con, com, together | cor, coron/o, heart | core/o, pupil | contra-, against |
| corp/o, body | cortic/o, rind; bark; shell | cost/o, rib | crani/o, skull | cribr/i, seive |
| -crine, to separate | crur/o, shin; leg | cry/o, cold | crypt/o, hidden | cut/o, cutan/o, skin |
| cyan/o, blue | cycl/o, circle | -cyesis, pregnancy | cyst/o, sac; bladder | cyt/o , -cyte, cell |
| dacry/o, tear | dactyl/o, finger; toe | de-, down from, away; removal of | dendr/o, tree | dent/o, teeth |
| derm/o, dermat/o, -derma, skin | desm/o, band | -desis, surgical binding | dextr/o, right | di- , twice |
| dia-, through | diaphor/o, sweat | dilat-, expanded | digit/o, finger | dipl/o , double |
| dis-, apart; separate | diure/o, urinate | -drome, run | dolor/o, pain | dors/o, dorsi-, back |
| duct/o , lead | dura- , hard | dys - , painful; difficult | ||
| -eal, pertaining to | -ectasis, expansion; stretch | ecto-, outside | -ectomy, excission; cut out | ef- , away from |
| electr/o, electricity | -emesis, vomiting | emmetr/o, proper measure | encephal/o, brain | en, end/o , inside |
| enter/o, intestines | epi- , on | episi/o, vulva | erythem/a, flushed | erythr/o, red |
| -esthesia, percieve; feel | estr/o, female | eti/o, cause | eu- well, good | ex- , out; away from |
| extra-, outside | ||||
| faci/o, face | fasci/o, fascia (membrane) | febr/o, fever | -ferent, carry | ferr/o, iron |
| fil/o, thread; filament | fibr/o, fiber | flav/o, yellow | flex/o, -flect, bend | for-, opening |
| fore-, before; in front | fovea/o, small pit | -form, shape | fract/o, break | -fuge, flee |
| galact/o, milk | gangli/o, swelling | gastr/o, stomach | gen/e, -gen, to produce | genicul/o, knee-like |
| geni/o, chin | ger, geront/o, old age | germ-, bud | gest/o, bear; carry | gingiv/o, gum |
| glauc/o, gray | -glia, glue | gloss/o, tongue | glott/o, language [tongue] | gluc/o; glyc/o, sugar |
| gnath/o, jaw | gn/o, know; discern | grad/o, walk | -gram, record | gran/o, grain |
| -graph, machine to record | -graphy, process of recording | grav/o, heavy | gyr/o, ring | gyn/o, woman |
| hect/o, hundred | hem(e), hemat/o, blood | helic/o, spine | hemi-, half | hep/a, hepat/o, liver |
| heter/o, other | hidr/o, sweat | hist/o, tissue | holo- , entire | home/o, hom/o, same |
| horm/o, impulse or excite | hyal/o, glass | hydr/o, water | hyo- , U-shaped | hyper-, above |
| hypo-, under | hypophys/o, pitutiary | hypn/o, sleep | hyster/o, uterus | |
| -ia, state or condition of | iatr/o, physician | idi/o, ones own | ile/o, ileum | ili/o, ilium |
| immun/o, safe, protection | in- , in; within | infra- , beneath | insul/o, island | inter-, between |
| intra-, within | ipsi-, itself | ile, illa, illus, little version of |
-in, substance | inguin/o, groin |
| irid/o, colored circle | -ism, theory; characteristic of | is/o, equal | -ist, specialist | -itis, inflammation |
| -ity, quality | -ium, thing | -ize, do | ||
| jact-, ject/o, throw | jaund/o, yellow | jejun/o, hungry | junct/o, yoke | juxta-, near |
| kal/i, potassium | kary/o, body | kel/o, fibrous growth | kerat/o, horn; cornea | keranun/o, lightning |
| kern-, nucleus | ket/o, ketones; acetones | kilo-, thousand | kin/o, -kinin , to move | kyph/o, humped |
| lab/i, lip | lact/o, milk | lapar/o, flank or loins | laryng/o, larynx | -lemma, husk |
| lep/i, -lepsy, take; seize | lept/o, slender; thin | leuk/o, white | lien/o, spleen | lig/a, to bind together |
| lip/o, fat | lith/o, stone | lute- yellow | lymph/o, clear water; lymph | lyso-, -lysis, -lyze : dissolution |
| macr/o, large | mal-, bad; abnormal | malac/o , soft | mamill/o, little breast | man/o , hand |
| -mania, morbid impluse | mast/o, breast | mega-, big | melan/o, black | men/o, month |
| ment/o, mind | mero-, part | meso-, middle | meta- , after | -meter, measurement |
| metr/o, metri/o, uterus | micr- , small | mono- , single | morph/o, form | mort/o, -mortem, death |
| muc/o, mucus | multi-, many | -mural, wall | mut/a, genetic change | myel/o, marrow OR spinal cord |
| my/o, myos/o, muscle | myring/o, tympanic menbrane | myc/o, fungus | mydr/o, wide | myx/o, mucus |
| narc/o, to numb; deaden | nas/o, nose | natri-, sodium | necr/o, corpse; death | neo- , new |
| nephr/o, kidney | neur/o, nerve | noct/i, night | non-, not | norm/o, normal |
| nulli-, none | nutri/o, noursih | nos/o, disease | nyct/o, night | |
| ocul/o, eye | odon/o- , tooth | odyn- , pain | -oid, form | oligo-, few |
| -ology, the study of | -oma, swelling | omphal/o, navel | onco-, mass; tumor | onych/o, nail |
| oo-, egg | ovari/o; oophor/o, ovary | ophthalm/o, eye | op, opth, opia, eye | orb-, circle |
| orch/i, testis | orth/o, straighten | -osis, [abnormal] condition | os, or/i, mouth | -osmia, smell |
| osm/o, push | os, oss/, oste/o, bone | ot/o, ear | ov/a- , egg | ox/o, -oxia, oxygen |
| pachy, thick | palpebr/o, eyelid | pan- , all; everything | papill/o, small elevation | para-, beyond |
| -para, to give birth | path/o, -path, disease | pedi/a, child | pell/o, skin ; hide | penia, lack; deficiency |
| peps/i, pept/i, digestion | per-, through | peri-, around | peripher/o, away from center | pexi-, fix; make fast/tight |
| phac/o, phak/o, lens | phag/o, eat | phall/o, penis | pharmac/o, drug | -phasia, speech |
| phelg/o, burn; inflame | -phil, -philia, love | phleb/o, vein | -phobe, phobia, fear | phon/o, sound |
| phot/o, light | phrag/o, fence/wall off | phth/i, decay; waste | -phylaxis, guard | physi/o, nature |
| -phyte, plant | -plasia, formation | -plasty, surgical re-shaping | platy-, flat | -plegia, paralysis |
| pleur/o, rib | -plexy, to strike | -pnea, breathing | pneum/o, air | pod/o, foot |
| -poiesis, making | poikil/o, variation | poly-, many | pont/o, bridge | porosis, porous |
| post- , after | -praxia, movement | pre-, before | presby-, old | prim/o, first |
| pro-, before | proct/o, anus | pseudo-, false | psych/o, mind | pteryg/o, wing |
| pto- , fall | ptal/o, saliva | -ptysis, spitting | pulm/o, pulmon/o, lung | pulp/o, flesh |
| pyel/o, trough; pelvis | py/o-, pus | |||
| quadr/o, four or one fourth | ||||
| rach/i, spine | rad/i, ray | radi/o, radiation | radicul/o, nerve root | re-, back; again |
| rect/o, straight | ren/o, kidneys | ret/e- , net | resiscit/o, to revive | reticul/o, net |
| retin/o, retina | retro-, backward | rhabd/o, rod shaped | rhabdomy/o, striated muscle | rheumat/o, watery flow |
| rhin/o, nose | rot/a, wheel | -rrhage, burst forth | -rrhaphy, suture | -rrhea, discharge; flow |
| -rrhexis, rupture | rubr/o, red | rug/a, crease or fold | ||
| sacchar/o, sugar | sacr/o, sacrum | salping/o, uterine tube | sanguin/o, blood | sarc/o, flesh |
| schis/o, schist/o, schiz/o, split | scler/o, hard | scoli/o, twisted | -scope, view | -scopy, process of viewing |
| -sect, to cut | semi-, half | -seps/o, -septic, sept/o, putrid | sial/o, saliva | sider/o, iron |
| sigmid/o, sigmoid | sinistr/o, left | -sis, state or condition | som/o, body | sphygm/o, pulse |
| spin/o, spine; vertebral column | spirat/o, breathe | splanch/o, viscera | spor/o, seed | somn/i, sleep |
| squam/a, scale | -stalsis, contractile | -stasis, condition of standing | stear/o, steat/o, fat | sten/o , narrowing |
| steth/o, chest | stern/o, sternum | -stitial, pertaining to a place | stomat/o, mouth | -stomy , mouth like opening |
| styl/o, stake; pole | sub- , under | super- above; beyond | supra-, on the upper side | syl-, sym- syn-, sys-, together; with |
| synapt/o, point of contact | synov/o, synovia | syring/o, tube | system/o, system | systol/o, contraction |
| tachy- , swift; rapid | tel/o, end | tens/o, strength | terat/o, malformed fetus | tetan/o, rigid; tense |
| tetra- , four | thel/o, nipple | therm/o, heat | -therapy, treatment | thorac/o, chest |
| thromb/o, clot | -tocia, -tocin, labor | -tomy, cut | ton/o, tension | tox/i, toxic/o, poison |
| trans- , through | tri-, three | trich/o, hair | -tripsy, crushing | trop/o, -tropic, turning |
| troph/o, nutrition | -trophy, nourishing | tympan/o, eardrum | tuber-, swelling | typhl/o, blind |
| -ule, little version | ungul/o, hoof | uni-, one | ur/o, -uria, urine | uter/o, uterus |
| vacc/o, cow | vagin/o, sheath | vas/o, vessel | vascul/o, vessel | ven/o, vein |
| vert/o, turn | vertebr/o, spine | vesic/o, pouch or cyst or urinary bladder | viscer/a, organ | vit/a, life |
| xanth/o, yellow | xer/o, dry | xiph/o, sword | ||
| zo/o, animal | zyg/o, yoked | -zyme, enzyme |