Suffix
Prefix
Root
Definition
Basic Word Structure
100
Ectomy
What is surgical removal?
100
Re
What is back or again?
100
cardi
What is heart?
100
Record of electricity in the heart
What is electrocardiogram?
100
Foundation of the word
What is the root?
200
Gram
What is record?
200
pre
What is before?
200
cyt
What is cell?
200
Adenology
What is study of glands?
200
Beginning of the term
What is prefix?
300
oma
What is tumor?
300
Rhin
What is nose?
300
ophthalm
What is eye?
300
inflammation of the liver
What is hepatitis?
300
Ending of term
What is suffix?
400
algia
What is pain?
400
hyper
What is excessive or more than normal?
400
bronch (i,o)
What is air tubes in lungs?
400
Condition of white blood cells
What is leukemia?
400
links the root to the suffix or the root to another root
What is combining vowel?
500
natal
What is birth?
500
radi
What is x-ray?
500
lact
What is milk?
500
record of mammary glands
What is mammogram?
500
combination of the root and the combining vowel
What is combining form?