Medical Terminology Prefixes and Suffixes

• Ventricul/o

  Ventricle
• Troph/o

  Development; nourishment
• Traumat/o

  Trauma; injury; wound
• The/o

  Sheath (meninges)
• Thalam/o

  Thalamus
• Tempor/o

  The temples
• Tax/o

  Coordination; order
• Syncop/o

  To cut off; cut short; faint
• Synaps/o, Synapt/o

  Point of contact; to join
• Somat/o

  Body
• Schiz/o

  Split
• Radicul/o

  Nerve root
• Psych/o

  Mind
• Pont/o

  Pons
• Poli/o

  Gray matter
• Pol/o

  Extreme
• Phren/o

  Mind
• Phob/o

  Fear
• Phase

  Speech
• Neuro

  Nerve
• Mening/o, Meningio

  Meninges
• Medull/o

  Medulla oblongata
• Flex/o

  Word
• Lamin/o

  Lamina (thin plate or layer; arch)
• Isch/o

  Back; to hold back
• Intra-

  Within; into
• Hemi-

  Half
• Epi-

  On; over; upon
• En-

  In; within
• Dys-

  Painful; difficult
• Con-

  Together; with
• Bi-

  Two; both
• Hypn/o

  Sleep
• Hydr/o

  Water
• Gli/o

  Blue
• Esthes/o, Esthesi/o

  Nervous sensation
• Encephal/o

  Brain
• Dur/o

  Dura mater
• Crani/o

  Skull
• Contus/o

  To bruise