Medical Terminology (BIO 110) – 400+ Terms & Abbreviations – Prefixes, Suffixes, Root Words, Conditions

Medical Terminology


-algia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pain, Suffering, Painful Condition


-cele - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Hernia, Tumor, Swelling


-cyte - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cell


-desis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To Bind, Tie Together


-ectomy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Surgical Removal, Cutting Out


-ectasis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Stretching, Dilation, Enlargement


-esthesia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sensation, Feeling


-itis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Inflammation

,-lysis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Breakdown, Separation, Setting Free, Destruction,

Loosening


-malacia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Abnormal Softening


-megaly - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Enlargement


-necrosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Tissue Death


-oma - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Tumor, Neoplasm


-ostomy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Surgical Creation Of An Opening To The Body

Surface


-otomy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cutting, Surgical Incision


-pathy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Disease, Suffering, Feeling, Emotion


-plasty - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Surgical Repair


-plegia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Paralysis


-pnea - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Breathing


-rrhagia, -rrhage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bleeding, Abnormal Excessive Fluid

Discharge

, -rrhea - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Flow Or Discharge


-rrhexis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rupture


-sclerosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Abnormal Hardening


-stenosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Abnormal Narrowing


-uria - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Urination, Urine


albin/o- - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔White


ankly/o- - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Crooked, Bent, Stiff


arthr/o- - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Joint


brady- - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Slow


cervic/o- - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Neck, Cervix


chondr/o- - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cartilage


coron/o- - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Coronary, Crown


cost/o- - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rib


crani/o- - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Skull




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