Chapter One

• Eponyms 


  Words formed from a person's name
• Prefix

  Word part at the beginning of a word that indicates number, location, time, or status.
• Root

  Word part that gives the essential meaning of the word
• A root cannot stand alone, a suffix must be added to complete the term.
• Combining vowel


  A single vowel, usually o, that is added to the end of a root to make a word easier to pronounce.
• A combining vowel is used when a suffix begins with a consonant or when two or more roots are joined.
• Combining form

  The combination of the root and the combining vowel.
• Suffix


  A word part found at the end of a word that indicates a procedure, condition, disease, or disorder.
• Pre-


  Before
• Preoperative


  Before or preceding an operation
• Peri-


  Around
• Perioperative


  Pertaining to the period around an operation or the period before, during, and after an operation.
• Post-


  After
• Postoperative


  After an operation
• Arthroscope


  An instrument used to visually examine the joint
• Gastritis


  Inflammation of the stomach
• Gastr/o


  Stomach
• Enter/o


  Small intestine
• Gastroenteritis


  Inflammation of the stomach and small intestine
• Traumatic


  Pertaining to injury
• Uria


  Urination
• Ab-


  Away from
• Abduction


  To take away from the midine
• Emetic


  Pertaining to vomiting
• Dys-


  Difficult, painful, bad
• Dysphagia


  Difficulty eating or swallowing
• Endo-


  Within or inside
• Endoparasite


  An organism that lives within the body of the host
• Hyperglycemia


  Elevated amounts of blood glucose
• Inter-


  Between
• Intercostal


  Between the ribs
• Poly-


  Many or excessive
• Polyuria


  Excessive amount or frequency of urination
• Sub-


  Below, under, less
• Sublingual


  Under the tongue
• An- or A-


  Without or no
• Atraumatic


  Without injury
• Anuria


  Absence of urine
• Ad-


  Toward
• Adduction


  Move toward the midline