Combining Forms
Terms Pertaining to the Body as a Whole
Terms Pertaining to the Body as a Whole II
Suffixes
Prefixes
100
bi/o
What is life
100
adip/o
What is fat
100
kary/o
What is nucleus
100
-algia
What is pain
100
tachy-
What is fast
200
iatr/o
What is treatment or physician
200
anter/o
What is front
200
later/o
What is side
200
-dynia
What is pain
200
peri-
What is surrounding
300
path/o
What is disease
300
chondr/o
What is cartilage
300
medi/o
What is middle
300
-ectomy
What is excision, removal, resection
300
ex-
What is out, outside, away from
400
cis/o
What is to cut
400
dist/o
What is far or distant
400
poster/o
What is back, behind.
400
-malacia
What is softening
400
infra-
What is beneath, under
500
sect/o
What is to cut
500
hist/o
What is tissue
500
viscer/o
What is internal organs
500
-penia
What is deficiency
500
macro-
What is large
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