Download Medical Terminology Word Parts Reference Guide and more Exams Medicine in PDF only on Docsity! P a g e 1 | 7 1 Word Parts Medical Terminology Final (Ivy Tech 101)2024 a- - ANS>> No, without, negative angi/o - ANS>> blood or lymph vessel bronch/o - ANS>> bronchial tube/bronchus -crasia - ANS>> mixture or blending ad- - ANS>> toward, to, in the direction of anti- - ANS>> against carcin/o - ANS>> cancerous cyan/o - ANS>> blue aden/o - ANS>> gland appendic/o - ANS>> apendix cardi/o - ANS>> heart cyst/o - ANS>> sac of fluid/ urinary bladder adenoid/o - ANS>> adenoids arter/o - ANS>> artery -cele - ANS>> hernia, swelling cyt/o - ANS>> cell aero- - ANS>> air, gas arthr/o - ANS>> joint -centesis - ANS>> surgical procedure causing puncture to draw out fluid dermat/o - ANS>> skin -algia - ANS>> pain, painful condition P a g e 2 | 7 2 ather/o - ANS>> plaque, pasty, gruelike substance chol/e - ANS>> bile, gall -desis - ANS>> surgical fixation of a bone or joint. to bind or put together. brady- - ANS>> slow colp/o - ANS>> vagina - specifically the cervix dextr/o - ANS>> right side -itis - ANS>> inflammation lith/o - ANS>> stone -megaly - ANS>> enlargement -necrosis - ANS>> tissue death kyph/o - ANS>> bent, hump -lithiasis - ANS>> presence of stones melan/o - ANS>> black, dark nephr/o - ANS>> kidney lord/o - ANS>> curve, swayback, bent men/o - ANS>> menstruation, menses neur/o - ANS>> nerve, nerve tissue laryng/o - ANS>> larynx, throat lymph/o - ANS>> lymph, lymphatic tissue metr/o - ANS>> uterus nulli- - ANS>> none leuk/o - ANS>> white -lysis - ANS>> breakdown, seperation, deconstruction, loosening P a g e 5 | 7 5 ten/o - ANS>> tendon, stretch out, extend, strain -rrhexis - ANS>> rupture sperm/o - ANS>> sperm gamet/o - ANS>> also sperm -therapy - ANS>> treatment scler/o - ANS>> sclera, white of eye, hard spondyl/o - ANS>> vertebrae, backbone thora/o - ANS>> chest -sclerosis - ANS>> abnormal hardening -stasis - ANS>> control, maintenance, of a constant level thorac/o - ANS>> chest cavity scoli/o - ANS>> curved, bent -stenosis - ANS>> abnormal narrowing tonsill/o - ANS>> tonsil, throat -oma - ANS>> tumor, neoplasm -osis - ANS>> abnormal condition, desease -pathy - ANS>> disease, suffering, feeling, emotion -plasty - ANS>> surgical repair oophor/o - ANS>> ovary -ostomy - ANS>> surgically creating an opening -pepsia - ANS>> digest, digestion pleur/o - ANS>> pleura, side of the body opt/o - ANS>> eye, vision P a g e 6 | 7 6 ot/o - ANS>> ear, hearing -pexy - ANS>> surgical fixiation -pnea - ANS>> breathing -otomy - ANS>> cutting, surgical incision -phagia - ANS>> eating, swallowing pneumon/o - ANS>> lung, air orch/o - ANS>> testicles ovari/o - ANS>> ovary pharyng/o - ANS>> throat, pharynx poly- - ANS>> many orchi/o - ANS>> testis -para - ANS>> to give birth phleb/o - ANS>> vein post- - ANS>> after, behind orchid/o - ANS>> testes path/o - ANS>> suffering, feeling, emotion -phonia - ANS>> sound, voice primi- - ANS>> first trache/o - ANS>> trachea, windpipe -tripsy - ANS>> to crush -trophy - ANS>> development, nourishment tympan/o - ANS>> tympanic membrane, eardrum ureter/o - ANS>> ureter P a g e 7 | 7 7 urethr/o - ANS>> urethra vas/o - ANS>> vessels zo/o - ANS>> animal life
