Word Parts
The part of a word that usually indicates a body part.
What is a word root?
First step in defining a medical term.
What is define the suffix?
Suffix that means “inflammation.”
What is -itis?
The prefix that means "within".
What is intra-?
The combining form for “blue.”
What is cyan/o?
This part of the word is always at the beginning and can modify the meaning.
What is a prefix?
The combining form for "nerve".
What is neur/o?
The meaning of the suffix -ectomy.
What is surgical removal?
The opposite of “hyper-”.
What is hypo-?
Erythr/o refers to this color.
What is red?
The vowel that joins a root with a suffix starting with a consonant.
What is a combining vowel?
The term gastroenteritis includes inflammation of these two body parts.
What are the stomach and intestines?
Suffix that turns a root into a noun meaning “specialist.”
What is -ist or -er?
The prefix that means “one thousandth”
What is milli-?
A leukocyte is what kind of cell?
What is a white blood cell?
The form of a root that includes the combining vowel.
What is a combining form?
The word cardiomegaly refers to this condition.
What is an enlarged heart?
Meaning of the suffix in the word gastrectomy.
What is removal?
In endogenous, this prefix means “inside or inner.”
What is endo-?
Meaning of melanosis.
What is a condition of black pigmentation?
The suffix in the term hepatitis.
What is -itis?
In oste/o/arthr/itis, this rule explains why the combining vowel is kept between two roots.
What is the rule that combining vowels link two roots even if the second begins with a vowel?
The suffix in dyspepsia tells you the word describes this.
What is a condition?
The prefix meaning “around” used in pericardium.
What is peri-?
Poliomyelitis refers to inflammation of what?
What is the gray matter of the spinal cord?