Prefixes
Means excessive, above or more than normal.
What is HYPER-?
It means the process of study.
What is -LOGY?
It means STOMACH.
What is GASTRO?
Small part attached to the beginning of a term.
What is a prefix?
Doctor who takes care of patients with heart attacks.
What is a cardiologist?
Means SURROUNDING or AROUND.
What is PERI-?
It means RECORD.
What is -GRAM?
It means HEAD.
What is CEPHAL/O?
It is a word ending.
What is a suffix?
Doctor who you see after a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
What is a psychiatrist?
It means above or upon.
What is EPI-?
It means TUMOR, MASS or SWELLING.
What is -OMA?
It means SKIN.
What is DERMO or DERMATO?
It is the foundation of the word.
What is the ROOT?
Doctor you see if you are diagnosed with renal failure.
What is a nephrologist?
It means BEHIND.
What is RETRO-?
It means PAIN
What is -ALGIA.
It means NERVE.
The order you read meaning of a medical term.
What is suffix first?
Doctor you see if you have ovarian cysts.
It means NO, NOT or WITHOUT.
What is A- or AN-?
It means INFLAMMATION.
What is -ITIS?
It means DISEASE.
It links the root to the suffix or the root to another root.
What is a combining vowel?
Doctor you see if you have inflammatory bowel disease.
What is a gastroenterologist?