Suffix
Prefix
Root Words
Medical Terms
Miscellaneous
100

Instrument to cut

-tome

100

Bad; painful; difficult

Dys-

100

bronchi/o; bronch/o

bronchus

100

without oxygen

anoxia

100

aer/o

air

200

dilation; expansion

-ectasis

200

In; within

Endo-

200

air; lung

pneum/o; pneumon/o

200

pain in the pleura

pleurodynia

200

liver

hepat/o

300

hernia; swelling

-cele

300

Large

macro-

300

tonsill/o

tonsils

300

Specialist in the study of the lungs

Pulmonologist

300

-rrhagia

bursting forth

400

formation; growth

-plasm

400

New

neo-

400

larynx (voice box)

laryng/o

400

Forming an opening in the trachea

Tracheostomy

400

py-

pus

500

excision; removal

-ectomy

500

Good; normal

Eu-

500

nas/o; rhin/o

nose

500

pertaining to within the trachea

endotracheal

500

-rrhaphy

suture (stiches)