Prefix
a- or an-
What is -ism
What is chem/o
Colostomy
Create a surgical opening in the colon?
stomach
gastr/o?
brady-
What is slow?
-cyte
What is cell
Nose
What is rhin/o?
hemiplegia
Paralysis of half the body
blood
hemat/o
dys-
What is painful, difficult, abnormal?
Destruction
What is -lytic?
What is cardi/o?
hypodermal
kidney
nephr/o
anti-
What is against?
-rrhage
What is abnormal flow
Dermat/o
What is skin?
biology
What is the study of life?
lung
pulmon/o
intra-
Disease
What is -pathy
small intestine
What is enter/o?
Cardiomegaly
enlarged heart
nerve
neur/o