Suffix: Medical Specialists
What is one who?
-er
-ist
What is the heart?
cardi/o
What is pertaining to obstetrics?
obstetric
obstetrical
What is excision?
-ectomy
What is a vessel?
angi/o
What is a practitioner?
-iatrician
What is the skin?
dermat/o
What is pertaining to the stomach?
gastric
What is surgical repair?
-plasty
What is life or living?
bi/o
Who is one who studies or is a specialist?
-logist
What is the mind?
psych/o
What is pertaining to the ear?
otic
What is an instrument used for cutting?
-tome
What is the liver?
hepat/o
What is the study or science of?
-logy
What is the nose?
rhin/o
What is pertaining to pediatrics or the health of children?
pediatric
What is an incision?
-tomy
What is a muscle?
muscul/o
my/o
What is pertaining to?
-ac
-al
-ic
-cal
What is new, birth?
ne/o, nat/o
What is pertaining to the female reproductive tract?
gynecologic
gynecological
What is the formation of an opening?
-stomy
What is the brain?
cerebr/o
encephal/o