nt Te el il | NS Appendix A PREFIXES, COMBINING FORMS, AND SUFFIXES Pertaining to ia abnormal concition, disease -iasis abnormal condition, disease ion condition ism condition, state of -osis abnormal condition, disease pertaining to al pertaining to ar pertaining to -ary pertaining to eal pertaining to jal pertaining to sical pertaining to -a noun ending Noun Endings sie pertaining to -ae plural noun ending ine pertaining to -e noun ending ior pertaining to “1 plural noun ending ory pertaining to -um singular noun ending, ous pertaining to -us singular noun ending tle pertaining to -y noun ending Abnormal Conditions ago abnormal condition, disease -esis abnormal condition, disease 531 ‘ree E-Book Store532 A ‘APPENDIX A, zo, not, without, away from, negative noun ending away from, negative, absent abdomen capable of, able to premature expulsion of a nonviable ferus abrad/o, abras/e rub or scrape off abrupt/o broken away from abs- away from abscess/o collection of pus, going away absorpt/o suck up, suck in -ac pertaining to acanth/o spiny, thomy acetabul/o acetabulum (hip socket) -aclous characterized by acne/o point or peak acous/o, acoust/o hearing, sound acquir/o get, obtain acr/o extremities (hands and feet), top, extreme point acromi/o acromion, point of shoulder blade actino light acu/o sharp, severe, sudden acult/o, acut/o sharp, sharpness acust/o, -acusia, hearing, sense of hearing -acusis ad- toward, (0, n the direction of aden/o gland adenoid/o adenoids adhes/o stick to, cing to adip/o fat adnex/o bound to adren/o, adrenal/o adrenal glands aer/o air, gas acsthet/o sensation, sense of perception af. toward, to affect/o ‘exert influence on agglutin/o clumping, stick together aggress/o attack, step forward ago abnormal condition, disease agor/a marketplace agra ‘excessive pain, seizure, attack of severe pain -alse comfort, ease val pertaining to albji, alb/o, albin/o albumin/o alge, algo, alg/o, algesi/o -algesia, -algesie -algia align/o aliment/o all/o, all alopec/o alveol/o ambi- ambly/o ambul/o, ambulat/o ametr/o amine amni/o amph- amputo, amputat/o amyl/o anjo ancy andr/o aneurysm/o angi/o angin/o anis/o ankyl/o anomal/o ante. anter/o anthrac/o anti- anxi/o, anxiet/o aort/o ap- -apheresis aphth/o apic/o ap, apo- aplast/o protein relationship to pain painful, pain sense pain, suffering, painful condition ‘bring into line or correct position to nourish other, different from normal, reversal baldness, mangy alveolus, air sac, small sac both sides, around or about, double ull, dim walk ut of proportion nitrogen compound amnion, fetal membrane around, on both sides, doubly ccut away, cut off a part of the body starch no, not, without up, apart, backward, excessive anus, ring characteristic of, pertaining to state of male, masculine blood or Iymph vessel, angina, choking, strangling unequal cxooked, bent, stil inregularity befor, in front of, forward before, front coal, coal dust against anxiety, anxious, uneasy aorta toward, to removal ulcer apex separation, away from, opposed, detached defective development, lack of development sat Free E-Book Storea PREFIXES, COMBINING FORMS, AND SUFFIXES 533 aponeur/o apoplect/o append/o, ‘appendic/o aquii, aqu/o, aque/o arachn/o arc/o arche areat/o areol/o arrect/o arter/o, arteri/o asplt/o, aspirat/o asthen-, -asthenia asthmat/o astr/o at atel/o ather/o athet/o ation atop/o atres/i atri/o attenuat/o aud-, audi/o, audit/o ‘aur/i, aur/o auscult/a, auscult/o aut/o axill/o B acill/o bacteri/o balan/o aponeurosis (type of tendon) a stroke appendix water perzaining spiderweb, spider bow, arc, or arch beginning cccurring in patches circumscribed areas litle open space connected with "prigh,ited up, raised artery joint joint pertaining to toward, to asbestos to breathe in ‘weakness, ack of strength sasping, choking star, star-shaped toward, to incomplete, imperfect plague, fay substance uncontrolled state or action sxrange, out of place without an opening atcium diluted, weakened at, hearing, the sense of hearing car, hearing listen self noun ending axis, main stem armpit zod-shaped bacterium (plural, bacteria) bacteria (singular, bacterium) glans penis bar/o bartholin/o bas/o bie bi/o bifid/o bifureat/o bulA bilirubin/o bin- blast blephar/o borborygm/o brachi/o brachy- brady- brevii, brev/o bronch/i, bronchi/o, bronch/o bronchiol/o brux/o buee/o burs/o Cc cadaver/o caleane/o ales calel-, cale/o caleul/o cali/o, calic/o call/, callos/o cealor/i canalicul/o canth/o capill/o capit/o capn/o capsul/o carb/o carbunel/o carcinjo cardio, card/o cari/o carot/o carpio cartilagio pressure, weight Bartholin’s gland base, opposite of acid twice, double, two life split, divided into two parts divide or fork into two branches bile, gall bilirubin two. ‘embryonic, immature, formative element eyelid rumbling sound short slow short bronchial tube, bronchus bronchiole, bronchiolus gzind cheek ‘bursa, sac of fluid near joint dead body, corpse calcaneus, heel bone calcium, lime, the heel calcium, stone, litte stone ‘cup, calyx hard, hardened and thickened heat litde canal or duet ‘comer of the eye hair head carbon dioxide, sooty or smoky appearance lite box carbon ccarbuncle heart rottenness, decay stupor, sleep wrist bones cartilage, gristle sat Free E-Book Store534 ‘APPENDIX A, bit of flesh down, lower, under 4 breaking down cathart/o cleansing, purging cathet/o insert, send down, caud/o lower part of bot caus/o, eaust/o burning, burn cauter/o, caut/o heat, bum cavit, eavio hollow, cave cavern/o containing hollow spaces cxc/o cecum cele hernia, tumor, swelling eeli/o, eel/o abdomen, belly eement/o ‘cementum, a rough stone cent. undred contests surgical puncture to remove uid cephal/o head cerebell/o cerebellum cerebr/o cerebrum, brain cerumin/o ccerumen, earwax cerviclo neck, cervix (neck of uterus) chell/o Lip or lips cheir/o hand chem/i, chem/o, drug, chemical chemic/o chir/o hand chlor/o green chlorhydr/0 hydrochloric acid chol/e bile, gall cholangi/o bile duet cholecyst/o gallbladder choledoch/o ‘common bile duct cholesterol/o cholesterol chondr/i, chondr/o cartilage chord/o spinal cord, cord chori/o, chorion/o chorion, membrane choroid/o choroid layer of eye chrom/o, color chromat/o chron/o time chym/o 10 pour, juice cibjo meal cieatric/o sear ida pertaining to killing cide ‘causing death ello eyelashes, microscopic hair like projections cine- relationship to movement cire/i ring or circle circulat/o cireum- circumeis/o cireumserib/o cireh/o eis/o casi, -clast claudicat/o dlaustr/o dlav/i lavicul/o, cleid/o dlitor/o -clonus elus/o lysis coagul/o, coagulat/o coaret/0, coarctat/o coee/t, coee/o, coceyg/o cochle/o coher/o, cohes/o coit/o col/o coll/a colon/o colp/o ccolumn/o comat/o comminut/o communic/o compatibil/o concav/o concentr/o concept/o conch/o concuss/o condyl/o confus/o coni/o conjunctiv/o consci/o consolid/o circulate, go around in a cele around, about cutting around confined, limited in pace orangeyelow, tawny cut break down limping barrier key clave, collar bone clr olen action shut or close inigacon, washing together, with dloting, coagulation press together, narrow spherical bacteria ‘coceyx, tailbone spiral, snail, snail shell ling, stick together ‘a coming together colon, large intestine ‘glue colon, large intestine vagina pillar together, with deep sleep break into pieces share, to make common sympathize with together, with hollow condense, intensify, remove excess water ‘become pregnant shell shaken together, violently agitated knuckle, knob confusion, disorder dust conjunctiva, joined together, connected aware, awareness become firm oF solid sat Free E-Book Storea PREFIXES, COMBINING FORMS, AND SUFFIXES 535 constipat/o constrict/o contact/o contagi/o contaminat/o contine/o, continent/o ‘contra: contracept/o contus/o convalesc/o convex/o convolut/o convuls/o copi/o copulat/o cor/o cord/o cordi/o coreio cori/o coron/o ‘corp/t, corpor/o corpuscul/o cort- corticio costo cox/o crani/o -erasia creatin/o crepit/o, erepitat/o crin/o, -erine cris/o, criticio seit exylo cerypt/o cubit/o culd/o cult/o cuss cusp eutane/o cyan/o cyel/o eyesis cysts, cyst eyst/o pressed together, crowded together dave tightly together touched, infected infection, unclean, touching of something render unclean by contact, pollute keep in, contain, hold bck, retain against, counter, opposite prevention of conception bruise recover, become strong, arched, vaulted colled, twisted pull together plensful joining together, linking pupil cord, spinal cord heart pupil skin, leather body Title body covering cortex, outer region Hb hip, hip joine skull ‘a mixture or blending creatinine crackling, rattling secrete tuming point to separate cold hidden elbow cul-de-sac, blind pouch cultivate hearing point, pointed flap skin blue ciliary body of eye, cycle pregnancy bladder, bag, urinary bladder, eyst, sac of uid eyt/o, cyte -eytie -cytosis D dacry/o dacryocyst/0 dactyl/o ae. debrid/e deca, deci decidu/o decubit/o defec/o, defecat/o defer/o degenerat/o deglutit/o delirifo dett/o delus/o -dema dem/i, dem/o demi. dendr/o dent/i, dent/o depilate/o depress/o dermat/o, derm/o desic/o desis deteriorat/o dextr/o ai. dia. laphor/o diaphragmat/o ai idym/o Aiffus/o digest/o digitio dilat/o, dilatat/o -dilation ailut/o diphther/o dipl/o ole/o cell pertaining to a cell, condition of cells tear, lacrimal duet (tear duct) lacrimal sac (tear sac) fingers, toes down, lack of, from, not, removal open a wound ten, tenth shedding, falling off lying down. to free from waste, clear carrying down or out ‘gradual impairment, breakdown, diminished function ‘swallow ‘wandering in the mind Greek letter delta, tlangular shape delude, mock, cheat swelling (fluid) people, population, half branching, resembling a tree tooth, teeth hair removal press down, lower, pressed or sunk down skin drying to bind, tie together ‘worsening or gradual impairment right side ‘wlee, twofold, double through, between, apart, complete sweat iaphragm, wall across standing apart, expansion testes, wins, double pour out, spread apart divide, distribute Anger or toe spread out, expand, ‘widening, stretching, expanding dissolve, separate ‘membrane double sat Free E-Book Store536 APPENDIX A dips/o, dipsia thirst dis. negative, apart, absence of dislocat/o