Combining Forms
Medi/o
What is middle?
Cardi/o
What is heart?
The central part of a medical term usually indicating a body part
What is the root word?
The front of the body
What is anterior?
Objective observations, that are observed and noted by the profession who examines the patient
What are signs?
Inherited, passed on from one’s parents
What is genetic?
Log/o
What is study of?
Anter/o
What is front?
Indicates location, time or number
What is prefix
Near the midline or center of body
What is medial?
Not objective or measurable
What are symptoms?
A disease that has an unknown etiology
What is idiopathic?
Thorac/o
What is chest?
Infer/o
What is below?
Attached to the end of a root word
What is the suffix?
Way from point of origin
What is distal?
Use of a stethoscope to listen to sound within body cavities
What is auscultation?
An injury or condition that originates within the body?
What is endogenous?
Cost/o
What is rib?
Path/o
What is disease?
A vowel attached to the end of the root word
What is the combining vowel?
Located closer to the top of the head; situated above another body part
What is superior?
The identification of a health condition
What is diagnosis?
An infection or disease that arises as a complication of medical or surgical intervention
What is iatrogenic?
Viscer/o
What is internal organs?
Dors/o
What is back of the body?
A root word plus a combining vowel
What is the combining form?
Relating to, or situated near the tail or inferior end of the body
What is caudal?
Use of smell to detect abnormalities
What is olfaction?
The study of the causes of pathological conditions?
What is etiology?