Chapter 1: Basic Word Structure

aden

gland

Arthr

joint

Bi

life

Carcin

cancer

Cardi

heart

cephal

head

Cerebr

brain

Cis

to cut

Crin

to secrete(to form and give off)

Cyst

urinary bladder; a sac or cyst (sac containing fluid)

Cyt

Cell

Derm

skin

Dermat

Skin

Electr

Electricity

Enter

Intestine (usually the small intestine)

Eryth

Red

Gastr

stomach

Glyc

sugar

Gnos

knowledge

Gynec

woman

Hemat

blood

Hem

blood

Hepat

liver

Iatr

treatment, physician

Leuk

white

Log

study of

nephr

kidney

neur

nerve

onc

tumor

opthalm

eye

oste

bone

path

disease

ped

child

psych

mind

radi

x-rays

ren

kidney

Rhin

nose

Sarc

flesh

Sect

to cut

Thromb

clot, clotting

Ur

urinary tract, urine

a-, an-

without

aut-, auto-

self, own

dia-

complete, through

endo-

within

epi-

above, upon

ex-, exo-

out, outside of, outward

hyper-

excess, above, more than normal

hypo-

deficient, below, under, less than normal

in-

into, in

peri-

surrounding, around

pro-

before, forward

re-

back, backward, again

retro-

behind

sub-

below, under

trans-

across, through

-ac

pertaining to

-al

pertaining to

-algia

pain

-cyte

cell

-ectomy

excision, removal

-emia

blood condition

-genic

pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in

-globin

protein

-gram

record

-ic, ical

pertaining to

-ion

process

-ist

specialist

-itis

inflammation

-logy

process of study

-oma

tumor, mass, swelling

-opsy

process of viewing

-osis

condition, usually abnormal (slight increase in numbers when used with blood cells)

-pathy

disease condition

-scope

instrument to visually examine

-scopy

process of visually examining

-sis

state of, condition

-tomy

process of cutting, incision

-y

process, condition