Word Root
Word Root
Suffix
Suffix
Prefix
100
necr/o
What is death?
100
nephr/o
What is kidney?
100
-megaly
What is enlargement?
100
-pathy
What is disease, emotion?
100
a-, an-
What is no, not, without?
200
noct/o
What is night?
200
lith/o
What is stone, calculus?
200
-osis
What is condition, usually abnormal?
200
-ole
What is little, small?
200
anti-
What is against?
300
bacteri/o
What is bacteria?
300
hydr/o
What is water?
300
-plasty
What is surgical repair?
300
-uria
What is urination, condition of the urine?
300
dia-
What is complete, through?
400
ket/o, keton/o
What is ketones, acetones?
400
meat/o
What is meatus, opening?
400
-ectomy
What is removal, excision, resection?
400
-ptosis
What is droop, sag, prolapse, protrude?
400
retro-
What is behind, back, backward?
500
olig/o
What is scanty?
500
trigon/o
What is trigone, area within the bladder?
500
-ectasis
What is dilation, widening?
500
-tripsy
What is to crush?
500
peri-
What is surrounding?
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