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Word-Parts-Lecture-Supplement

The document provides a comprehensive list of medical suffixes, prefixes, and roots along with their meanings to aid in memorization. It suggests creating flashcards for effective learning of these word parts. Each section categorizes the components into suffixes, prefixes, and common roots, facilitating better understanding of medical terminology.

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Word-Parts-Lecture-Supplement

The document provides a comprehensive list of medical suffixes, prefixes, and roots along with their meanings to aid in memorization. It suggests creating flashcards for effective learning of these word parts. Each section categorizes the components into suffixes, prefixes, and common roots, facilitating better understanding of medical terminology.

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Word Parts Lecture Supplement – Suffixes

To facilitate memorization, I suggest making flashcards for all the following word parts.

Suffix Meaning Suffix Meaning Suffix Meaning Suffix Meaning

-ac pertaining to -ole small -cele hernia -ptosis drooping

-al pertaining to -ule small -emia blood condition -rrhage excessive flow

-ar pertaining to -ula small -iasis presence of -rrhagia excessive flow

-ary pertaining to -tomy incision -itis inflammation -rrhea flow


loosen, break
-eal pertaining to -iatrics medical science -lysis -rrhexis rupture
down
abnormal involuntary
-ic pertaining to -iatry medical science -malacia -spasm
softening contraction
specialist in
-tic pertaining to -iatrist -megaly enlargement -centesis puncture
medicine of
-ous pertaining to -ist specialist -oid resembling -gram written record
specialist in the instrument to
-ia condition -logist -oma tumor -graph
study of record
process of
-ism condition -logy study of -osis condition -graphy
recording
instrument to
-ium tissue, structure -algia pain -pathy disease -meter
measure
condition, process of
-y -dynia pain -penia deficiency -metry
procedure measuring
instrument to
-scope -desis binding, fixation -pexy surgical fixation -rrhaphy suture
look
process of creation of an
-scopy -ectomy removal -plasty reconstruction -stomy
looking opening
Word Parts Lecture Supplement – Prefixes

To facilitate memorization, I suggest making flashcards for all the following word parts.

Prefix Meaning Prefix Meaning Prefix Meaning Prefix Meaning

a- not re- again extra- outside hyper- over

an- not ab- away en- in, inside hypo- under

anti- against ad- toward endo- in, inside macro- large

contra- against circum- around intra- in, inside micro- small

down, away
de- peri- around epi- upon mono- one
from

ante- before dia- through sub- beneath uni- one

pre- before trans- through inter- between oligo- few

before, on
pro- e- out bi- two pan- all
behalf of

brady- slow ec- out hemi- half poly- many

tachy- fast ex- out semi- half multi- many

post- after ecto- outside extra- outside con- with, together

syn- with, together sym- with, together dys- bad eu- good
Word Parts Lecture Supplement – Common Roots

To facilitate memorization, I suggest making flashcards for all the following word parts.

Root Meaning

gen/o creation, cause

hydr/o- water

morph/o change

myc/o fungus

necr/o death

orth/o straight

path/o suffering, disease

phag/o eat

plas/o formation

py/o pus

scler/o hard

sten/o narrowing

troph/o nourishment, development

xen/o foreign

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