Basic Medical terminologies

• Medical terminology is derived primarily from the classic Greek and Latin languages.
• Medical terms consist of combinations of three major word parts: prefixes, word roots, and suffixes
• -a


  -ae
• -ax

  -aces
• -en

  -ina
• -ex, ix

  -ices
• -is

  -es
• -ma


  -mata
• -nx

  -nges
• -on

  a
• -um

  -a
• -us

  -i
• -y

  -ies
• orthopnea -
• ab-

  away from
• ac-

  pertaining to
• acous-

  hearing
• ad-


  toward
• af-


  to, toward
• alb-


  white
• ambi-

  both
• ana-

  up
• aniso-

  unequal
• ante-


  before
• anti-, contra-

  against
• auto-

  self
• blasto-


  growth
• brachy-


  short
• brady-


  slow
• circum-, peri-

  arpund
• cyan-

  blue
• dia-

  complete, through
• ec-


  out, away
• ecto-, exo-


  outside
• edem-


  swelling
• endo-, intra-


  inside, within
• epi-


  on, over
• erythr-


  red
• eu-


  good, normal
• fore-


  before, infront