PHP Medical Terminology

• Upward; backward; gain; excessive

  Ana-
• Negative; against; down

  Cata-
• Below; deficient

  Hyp/o-
• Above; excessive

  Hyper-
• Pertaining or referring to a gland

  Aden/o
• Pertaining or referring to fat

  Adip/o
• Life

  bi/o
• Stone-like; heel; calcium

  Calc/o
• Room; cell

  Cell/o
• Color

  Chrom/o
• Cell

  Cyt/o
• Skin

  Derm/o
• Fiber

  Fibr/o
• Begin; originate; produce

  gen/o
• Tissue

  Hist/o
• Nucleus

  Nucle/o
• Smell; odor; impulse

  osm/o
• Oxygen

  Ox/o
• Protein

  Prote/o
• Scale; skin

  Squam/o
• Hair

  Vill/i
• Cell

  -cyte
• Breakdown; split; dissolution

  -lysis
• Disease

  -pathy
• Eater

  -phage
• Like; affinity for

  -phil
• Fall; droop

  -ptosis
• Layer of cellular tissue

  -thelium
• Counteractive; against

  Anti-
• Base

  Bas-
• Two

  Bi-
• Center

  Centr-
• With; together

  Con-
• Down; lack of; opposite of

  De-
• Apart; not

  Dif-
• Outside

  Ecto-
• Amber; electrical

  Electro-
• Outside of; beyond

  Extra-
• Not; within

  In-
• Equal

  Iso-