Prefixes
Prefixes 2
Suffixes
Suffixes 2
Combining
Forms
Roots
Definition
100

sub-

What is below?

100

In-

What is in or into?

100

-logy

What is "the study of"?

100

-ia

What is a condition?

100

hemat/o

What is the blood?

100

Cardi

What is the heart?

100

appendicitis

What is inflammation of the appendix?

200

trans-

What is pertaining to across?

200

Describes in between.

What Inter-?

200

-ic, -al, -eal, -ar, -ary

What is pertaining to?

200

Describes a protein.

What is -globin?

200

/o

What is the most common combining vowel

200

Electr

What is Electricity

200

cardiomyopathy

What are diseases of the heart?

300

retro-

What is pertaining to behind?

300

ad-

What is toward the midline?

300

-scope

What is a visual examination instrument?

300

-gram

What is a record

300

crani/o

What is the cranium or skull?

300

Hemat

What is the blood?

300

laparoscopy

What is the use of a viewing instrument inserted into the abdomen?

400

a-

What is a "no"?

400

Away from.

What is Ab-?

400

A disease condition is described with this suffix.

-pathy

400

Describes the excessive discharge of blood.

What is -rrhagia or -rrhage?

400

nephr/o

What is the combining form for kidneys?

400

Nephr

What is the kidney?

400

arthrogram

What is a medical imaging procedure used to examine joints?

500

an-

What is "not" ?

500

epi-

What is above or upon?

500

-algia

What is pain?

500

-graphy

What is the process of recording?

500

gastr/o/enter/o

What is stomach and intestines?

500

Is the essential meaning of the word

What is the root?

500

neuralgia

What is nerve pain?

600

aut-

What is self?

600

Means bad or painful.

What is Mal-?

600

-cyte

What is a cell?

600

-lysis

What is the destruction, breakdown or separation of?

600

It is usually dropped when the suffix begins with this.

what is a vowel?

600

Leuk

What are white blood cells?

600

cephalgia

What is a headache?

700

dia-

What is complete or through?

700

pre-

What is before?

700

-ectomy

What is cutting out, removal or excision?

700

-uria 

What is a condition of the urine?

700

cepha/o

What is the head?

700

Ren

what is the kidney?

700

arthritis

What is inflammation of the joints

800

dys-

What is bad, painful, difficult or abnormal?

800

post-

What is behind or after?

800

-emia

What is a blood condition?

800

A surgical procedure or puncture to remove fluid.

What is -centesis

800

inter/o

What is intestines?

800

Lapar

What is the abdomen?

800

electrocardiogram

What is an EKC or ECG

900

endo-

what is within, in or inner?

900

Describes something that is outside of.

What is Ex- or Extra-?

900

-tomy

What is an incision?

900

-megaly

What is enlargement of?

900

carp/o

What are the carpals (wrist bones)?

900

Mamm

What is the breast?

900

cephalalgia

What is a headache?

1000

hypo-

What is under or below?

1000

re-, retro-

What is after or behind?

1000

-itis

What is inflammation

1000

-sclerosis

What is hardening of?

1000

derm/o

What is the skin?

1000

Necr

What is death of the cell or body?

1000

gastroenterology

What is the study of the stomach and intestines?

1100

pro-

What is forward?

1100

Describes something that comes before or is forward.

What is Ante-?

1100
-oma

What is a tumor?

1100

-therapy

What is treatment of?

1100

bi/o

What is life?

1100

Ur

What is urine? ex: urologist

1100

ophthalmalgia

What is pain in the eye?

1200

intra-

What is within?

1200

tachy-

What is fast?

1200

-osis

What is an abnormal condition?

1200

-stomy

What is a new opening?

1200

The combining form for cell.

What is Cyt/o?

1200

Thorac

What is the thorax or chest?

1200

fracture

What is a broken bone?

1300

Describes excessive, too much or above.

What is Hyper-?

1300

Describes slow movement.

What is Brady-?

1300

-scopy

What is a visual examination of?

1300

-plasty

What is a surgical repair or correction?

1300

Describes a gland.

What is Aden/o?

1300

Spir

What is breathe or breathing?

1300

esophagogastroscopy

What is a visual examination of the esophagus and stomach?

1400

peri-

What is surrounding or outer?

1400

meso-

What is middle of?

1400

Describes producing, originating or causing.

What is -genic?

1400

Describes a malignant tumor.

What is a -sarcoma?

1400

vir/o

What is virus?

1400

Sarc

What is flesh or connective tissue?

1400

cytology

What is the study of the cell?

1500

ecto-

What is outside of?

1500

pachy-

What is thick?

1500

-opsy

What is to view?

1500

-plasia

What is a formation, development or growth?

1500

tympan/o

What is the eardrum or middle ear?

1500

Ungu

What is the nail?

1500

endocarditis

What is inflammation of the inner lining of the heart?

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