Prefixes
Mega-
What is large, great?
What is nerve?
-ology
What is "the study of"?
Optometrist
What is a specialist who provides eye care?
Cyan/o
What is blue?
Arteri/o
What is artery?
-itis
What is inflammation?
Palpitation
Leuk/o
What is white?
Ab-
What is away from, negative, absent?
Osteo/o
What is bone?
-algia
What is pain?
Sinusitis
What is inflammation of the sinuses?
Erythr/o
What is red?
Ad-
What is toward, to, in the direction of?
Py/o
What is pus?
-emia
What is blood?
Otoscope
What is an instrument used to visually examine the ear canal?
Melan/o
What is black?
Sinistr/o-
What is left side?
Myc/o
What is fungus?
-esthesia
What is sensation?
Regurgitation
What is the return of swallowed food into the mouth?
Poli/o
What is grey?