Bone/Muscle
Roots
Skin
Suffixes
Prefixes
100

The surgeon creates a hole in the skull to access the brian

What is a craniotomy?
100

patho/o

What is disease?

100

Itching skin

What is puritus?
100

inflammation

What is -itis?
100

Slow

What is -brady?

200

Bone pain

What is ostalgia?

200

crani/o

What is skull?

200

Alopecia

What is hair loss?

200

-dynia

What is pain?

200

Hyper-

What is increased?

300

Loss of muscle tissue

What is atrophy?

300

Arth/o

What is joint?

300
Dermatalgia

What is skin pain?

300

-ac

What is pertaining to?
300
Not

What is a-?

400

Inability to control movement

What is dyskinesia?

400

lip/o

What is fat?
400

Surgical removal of lesion

What is an extensional biopsy?

400

tissue

What is -ium?

400

Against

What is contra-?

500

Inflammation of SC tissue and fascia marked by tissue death

What is necrotizing fasciitis?

500

Leuko

What is white?
500

Most deadly form of skin cancer

What is malignant melanoma?

500

-ectomy

What is to cut out?

500

Ante-

What is before?