CFs 1
carcin/o
What is cancerous or cancer?
This is the foundation of a medical term.
What is Word Root?
electr/o
What is electricity?
a-, an-
What is no, not, without?
-ac, -al, ic, ical
What is pertaining to?
cardi/o
What is heart?
This is the ending of a medical term
What is a suffix?
gynec/o
What is woman, female?
hyper-
What is excessive, above, more than normal?
-logy
what is study of?
cyt/o
What is cell?
This is the beginning of a medical term
What is prefix?
psych/o
What is mind?
peri-
What is surrounding, around?
-itis
What is inflammation?
opthalm/o
What is eye?
This vowel is used to link a word root to a suffix or another word root.
What is combining vowel?
leuk/o
What is white?
retro-
What is behind?
-genic
What is pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in?
crin/o
What is secrete?
How a medical term is translated
What is from the suffix, to the beginning of the term and across it?
thromb/o
What is clot or clotting?
dia-
What is through, complete?
-ectomy
What is excision, removal?