Appendix B English Terms English Word Abnormal condition Abnormal condition (produced by something specified) above, upon above adrenal glands after, behind against air air, lung anterior, front anus, rectum aorta appendix around, beside, near around artery atrium back, behind, posterior bad, painful, difficult before behind, post below, under between bile, gall bile duct birth black bladder blood blood clot blood vessel blue bone bone marrow, spinal cord brain breastbone breathing bronchus bursting forth calcaneum calcium calculus, stone Medical Term -osis -iasis episupraadren/o, adrenal/o postantiaer/o pneum/o, pneumon/o anter/o proct/o aort/o append/o paraperiateri/o atri/o poster/o dysprepostsub-, hypointerchol/e choledoch/o nat/o melan/o vesic/o, cyst/o hem/o, hemat/o, -emia thromb/o hemangi/o, vascul/o cyan/o oste/o myel/o encephal/o stern/o -pnea bronch/o, bronchi/o -rrhage, -rrhagia calcane/o calc/o -lith, lith/o
cancer carpus cartilage cell cerebrum cerebellum chest choroid colon condition cornea cranium crushing cut into, incision death decrease difficult destruction, loosening, separation digestion dilation, expansion discharge, flow double, 2 dropping, falling, prolapse dry duodenum ear eardrum eat, swallow electric enlargement esophagus Eustachian tube excessive excision, removal expansion extremities eye eyelid falling, prolapse far, farthest fat fear femur fibula finger or toe fixation carcin/o carp/o chondr/o cyt/o, -cyte cerebr/o cerebell/o thorac/o choroid/o col/o, colon/o -ia, -ism kerat/o crani/o -tripsy -tomy necr/o -penia dys- -lysis -pepsia -ectasis -rrhea bi-, dipl/o -ptosis xer/o duoden/o ot/o myring/o -pahgia electr/o -megaly esophag/o salping/o hyper- -ectomy -ectasis acr/o ophthalm/o blephar/o -ptosis dist/o adip/o, lip/o -phobia femor/o fibul/o phalang/o -pexy
formation, growth forming, producing four front, anterior fungus gallbladder glomerulus glucose, sugar gluelike good, normal process of recording gum hair half hardening head heart hernia, swelling heat humerus ileum in incision, cut into inflammation instrument to cut instrument to view intestine involuntary contraction, twitching iris jaw jejunum joint kidney knee cap larynx little, scanty liver loin lymph lymph vessel many, much meninges metacarpus mouth mucus muscle -plasm, -plasia -gen, -genesis quadrianter/o myc/o cholecyst/o glomerul/o gluc/o, glyc/o -glia eu- -graphy gingiv/o trich/o hemisclero cephal/o cardi/o -cele therm/o humer/o ile/o en- -tomy -itis -tome -scope enter/o -spasm irid/o maxill/o jejun/o arthr/o nephr/o, ren/o patell/o laryng/o olig/o hepat/o lumbar lymph/o lymphangi/o polymening/o, meningi/o metacarp/o or/o muc/o my/o
nail onych/o narrowing, stricture -stenosis near, nearest proxim/o nerve neur/o new neonight noct/o nose nas/o, rhin/o not an-, a- pain -algia, -dynia pancreas pancreat/o paralysis -plegia pelvis pelv/o, pelv/i pertaining to -al, -ic, -ous, -ary, -ar pharynx pharyng/o pleura pleur/o poison toxic/o, tox/o polyp polyp/o process of recording -graphy pus py/o radiation, x-rays radi/o rapid tachyrecord -gram rectum rect/o red erythr/o removal, excision -ectomy renal pelvis pyel/o retina retin/o ribs cost/o rupture -rrhesis sacrum sacr/o saliva, salivary glands sial/o sclera of the eye scler/o self autosigmoid colon sigmoid/o skin cutane/o, dermat/o, derm/o, -derma skull crani/o slow bradysmall -ole, -ule, microsoftening -malacia specialist in the study of -logist specialist -ist speech -phasia spine spin/o stomach gastr/o stone, calculus lith, -lith straight orth/o
study -logy surgical puncture -centesis surgical repair -plasty suture -rrhaphy swallow, eat -phagia sweat hidr/o swelling -edema teeth dent/o, odont/o thirst -dipsia three trithrough diathymus gland thym/o thyroid gland thyroid/o, thyr/o tibia tibi/o tongue lingu/o trachea trache/o treatment -therapy tumor -oma under, beneath sub-, hypoupon, above epiureter ureter/o urethra urethr/o urine, urination -uria urine ur/o vein ven/o, pheb/o ventricle ventricul/o vertebrae spondyl/o, verterbr/o vision -opia visual examination -scopy vessel angi/o vomiting -emesis water hydr/o white leuk/o within intrawithout, not -an, -a x-rays radi/o yellow xanth/o