Medical Prefixes
Ab-
What is away from?
Derm
What is skin?
-otomy
What is to cut into?
Medical term for the color white
What is Leuk/o?
Nephro
What is kidney?
Ex-
What is outside?
Osteo
What is bone?
-ectomy
What is to cut out or remove?
Enlargement of the liver
What is hepatitis?
Pulmo/o
What is lung?
Ad-
What is toward or in the direction of?
Path/o
What is disease?
-osis
What is abnormal condition?
Intra-
What is within, intro?
Phleb/o
What is vein?
Eu-
What is normal, healty?
What is Marrow, spinal cord?
-plasia
What is development, growth, or formaion?
-lysis
What is to breakdown?
Arthr/o
What is joint?
Endo-
What is within, inside of?
Sten/o
What is narrow?
-rrhea
What is fluid discharge?
What is the medical suffix for X-ray or radiographic image?
What is -gram?
Cyt/o
What is cell?
Pseudo-
What is false?
What is vessel?
-stasis
What is to stop?
Medical term for red
What is erythr(o)?
Cephal/o
What is head?
Dys-
What is difficult, painful, or abnormal?
Carcin/o
What is cancer?
-plegia
What is paralysis?
What is plasm(o)?
Lithi/o
What is stone?