Medical Word Elements (Body Structure ch. 4)

• cell


  cty/o
• tissue


  hist/o
• nucleus


  kary/o
• nucleus

  nucle/o
• anterior, front

  anter/o
• tail


  caud
• head

  cephal
• far, farthest


  dist/o
• lower, below


  infer/o
• back (of the body)

  dors/o
• side, to one side


  later/o
• middle


  medi/o
• back (of the body), behind, posterior

  poster/o
• near, nearest

  proxim/o
• belly, belly side


  ventr/o
• white

  albin/o
• white

  leuk/o
• color

  chrom/o
• yellow


  cirrh/o
• yellow

  jaund/o
• yellow

  xanth/o
• blue


  cyan/o
• red

  erythr/o
• black


  melan/o
• gray; gray of matter (of the brain or spinal cord)


  poli/o
• radiation, x-ray; radius (lower arm bone on thumb side)


  radi/o
• to cut

  tom/o
• internal organs

  viscer/o
• pertaining to

  -ar
• pertaining to

  -ic
• process of recording

  -graphy
• below, under


  infra-
• around


  peri-
• upper, above

  super-
• excess, beyond

  ultra-