Prefixes
sub-
What is below?
-logy
What is "the study of"?
Hemat/o
What is the blood?
Cardi
What is the heart?
appendicitis
What is inflammation of the appendix?
trans-
What is pertaining to across?
-gram
What is a record
/o
What is the most common combining vowel
Electr
What is Electricity
cardiomyopathy
What are diseases of the heart?
retro-
What is pertaining to behind?
-ac
What is pertaining to
Crani/o
What is the cranium or skull?
Hemat
What is the blood?
laparoscopy
What is the use of a viewing instrument inserted into the abdomen?
a-
What is a "no"?
-ic
What is pertaining to
Nephr/o
What is the combining form for kidneys?
Nephr
What is the kidney?
arthrogram
What is a medical imaging procedure used to examine joints?
an-
What is "not" ?
-scope
What is a visual examination instrument
Gastr/o/enter/o
What is stomach and intestines
Is the essential meaning of the word
What is the root?
neuralgia
What is nerve pain?
aut-
What is self?
-al
What is pertaining to?
It is usually dropped when the suffix begins with this.
what is a vowel?
Leuk
What are white blood cells?
cephalgia
What is a headache?
dia-
What is complete or through?
-algia
What is pain?
Cepha/o
What is the head?
Ren
what is the kidney?
arthritis
What is inflammation of the joints
dys-
What is bad, painful, difficult or abnormal?
-cyte
What is a cell?
Inter/o
What is intestines?
Lapar
What is the abdomen?
electrocardiogram
What is an EKC or ECG
endo-
what is within?
-ectomy
What is cutting out, removal or excision?
Hemat/o
What is the combining form for blood?
Mamm
What is the breast?
cephalalgia
What is a headache?
hypo-
What is under or below?
-tomy
What is an incision?
Derm/o
What is the skin?
Necr
What is death of the cell or body?
gastroenterology
What is the study of the stomach and intestines?
pro-
What is forward?
-emia
What is a blood condition?
Bi/o
What is life?
Ur
What is urine? ex: urologist
ophthalmalgia
What is pain in the eye?