Body Parts/Organs
This term means “stomach.”
What is gastro?
This prefix means “between” or “among.”
What is inter-?
This suffix means “condition” or “disease.”
What is -osis?
This root word means “blood.”
What is hemo or hema?
This term means study of the skin.
The medical term for “brain.”
What is cephalo or cerebro?
This prefix means “under” or “below.”
What is hypo-?
This suffix means “surgical repair.”
What is -plasty?
This root means “lung.”
What is pulmo or pulmon?
This term means high blood sugar.
What is hyperglycemia?
This term refers to “bone.”
What is osteo?
This prefix means “two” or “double.”
What is bi-?
This suffix means “tumor” or “mass.”
What is -oma?
This root means “bone.”
What is osteo?
This term means surgical removal of the appendix.
What is appendectomy?
The term for “eye.”
What is ophthalmo?
This prefix means “around” or “about.”
What is peri-?
This suffix means “to suture” or “stitch.”
What is -rrhaphy?
This root means “intestine.”
What is entero?
This term means inflammation of a joint.
This root means “liver.”
What is hepato?
This prefix means “self” or “own.”
What is auto-?
This suffix means “specialist” or “one who studies.”
What is -logist?
This root means “gallbladder.”
What is cholecyst?
This term means disease of the heart muscle.
What is cardiomyopathy?