Medical Terminology Handout - List 6

Chapter 3 pgs 77 -117

Combining Form / Meaning / Examples
Arteri/o / Arteriography
Arteritis
Ather/o / Atherosclerosis
atheroma
Axill/o / Axillary
Chem/o / Chemotherapy
Chemolysis
Chron/o / Chronic
chronotherapy
Col/o / Coloenteritis
colostomy
Cry/o / Cryosurgery
cryotherapy
mamm/o / mammary
mammogram
mast/o / mastectomy
mastitis
men/o / Menorrhea / menorrhagia
amenorrhea
mening/o / meningitis
meningoarteritis
my/o / myocardial
myoma
myel/o / myelogram
myeloencephalitis
necr/o / necrotic
necrosis
phleb/o / phlebitis
phlebotomist
pneumon/o / pneumonia
pneumonitis
pulmon/o / pulmonary
pulmonologist
radi/o / radiology
radiologist
septic/o / septic
septicemia
tonsill/o / Tonsillitis
Tonsillectomy
Vascul/o / vascular
vasculitis
Suffixes (Procedural)
-centesis / thoracentesis
amniocentesis
arthrocentesis
-plasty / mammoplasty
rhinoplasty
arthroplasty
-stomy / colostomy
tracheostomy
-therapy / radiotherapy
cryotherapy
Suffixes
-megaly / Cardiomegaly
hepatomegaly
-rrhea / Rhinorrhea
gonorrhea
-rrhage / Amniorrhage
hemorrhage
-sclerosis / Arteriosclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis
-cide
-cidal / Cryocide
-clast / Osteoclast

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