Medical Terminology

• kary/o


  Root word meaning 'Nucleus of the cell
• hist/o

  Root word meaning 'tissue
• hemato or hemo


  Root word meaning 'blood
• -blast


  Suffix meaning 'Bud, sprout
• -cyte


  Suffix meaning 'cell
• cyt/o

  Root word meaning 'cell/cytoplasm
• dermat/o


  Root word meaning 'skin
• derm/o


  Root word meaning 'skin
• cutane/o

  Root word meaning 'skin
• chondro/o

  Root word meaning 'cartilage
• adip/o

  Root word meaning 'fat
• arthro/


  Root word meaning 'joint
• aden/o


  Root word meaning 'glands
• viscer/o


  Root word meaning 'Pertaining to internal organs
• cyst/o

  Root word meaning 'Sack or bladder
• coccyg/o

  Root word meaning 'coccyx (tailbone)
• sacr/o

  Root word meaning 'sacrum
• ili/o


  Root word meaning 'ilium (hip bone)
• carp/o

  Root word meaning 'wrist bones
• dactyl/o

  Root word meaning 'fingers/toes
• lumb/o

  Root word meaning 'Lower back (loin)
• spin/o

  Root word meaning 'spine (backbone)
• vertebr/o


  Root word meaning 'vertebra (backbone)
• ren/o

  Root word meaning 'kidney
• nephr/o

  Root word meaning 'kidney
• enter/o


  Root word meaning 'intestine (usually small)
• gastr/o

  Root word meaning 'stomach
• hepat/o

  Root word meaning 'liver
• ventro/o


  Root word meaning 'belly side of body
• abdomin/o

  Root word meaning 'belly, abdomen
• cardi/o

  Root word meaning 'heart
• cost/o

  Root word meaning 'rib
• thorac/o


  Root word meaning 'chest
• thel/o

  Root word meaning 'nipple
• trache/o


  Root word meaning 'Trachea (windpipe)
• cervic/o

  Root word meaning 'Neck (or neck of uterus)
• gloss/o

  Root word meaning 'tongue
• -stomy


  Suffix meaning 'new opening, mouth
• rhin/o

  Root word meaning 'nose
• ophthalm/o


  Root word meaning 'eyes