Prefixes
hemi- / semi-
half, one side
-algia / -odynia
pain
abdomin/o , celi/o
Abdomen
chondr/o
cartilage
ren/o
kidney
sub-
below, under
-ary / -ar / -al / -ac / -ory
Pertaining to
arter/o, arteri/o
Artery
glyc/o , gluc/o
glucose, sugar
sept/o
septum, partition, dividing wall
super- / supra-
Above
-megaly
enlargement
arthr/o
Joint
hepat/o
liver
stoma, stomat/o
mouth
ante-
before
-o/sis
condition of
bronch/i, bronch/o
bronchus
leukocyt/o
white blood cell
thromb/o
blood clot
poly-
many, much
-paresis
partial paralysis, weakness
bucc/o
cheek
lysis
separation, loosening, dissolving, destruction
tox/o, toxic/o
trans-
through
-pathy
disease, any disease of
chron/o
Time
ptosis
dropping, downward displacement, prolapse
trich/o
hair
retro-
behind, backward
-pexy
surgical fixation
blephar/o
*Double Points*
Eyelid
somat/o
body
schisis
fissure
pseudo-
false
-ptosis
dropping, downward displacement, prolapse
erythr/o-
red blood cell
gravida
pregnant woman
xen/o
*Double Points
Foreign, strange