MEDTERM PREFIX

• What is medical terminology?

  It’s a language used to describe

  Anatomy

  Structures

  Conditions

  Diagnosis

  Procedures

  Treatments
• Prefix - beginning ( descriptive )

  • is not always present but when it is, it forms the beginning of the word. Location, direction, number, quantity , amount, size, color.
• Root middle (subject)

  -the easiest to think of the root is it is the subject and it often pertains to a body part or system.
• Suffix ending (meaning )

  -which forms the end of the word, gives meaning to the medical word. Disease, disorder, condition, procedures, process, specialty or test.
• HEMO - BLOOD
• HEMATEMESIS - VOMITING WITH BLOOD
• HEMPTYSIS - SPIT WITH BLOOD
• HEMATOCHEZIN - POOP WITH BLOOD
• HEMATUSIA - PEE WITH BLOOD
• CC - CHIEF COMPLAINT
• R/O - RULE OUT
• t/c - to consider
• S/P - STATUS POST
• MONO - ONE   e.g monocle ( single eyeglass )
• UNI - ONE  e.g   unicycle (single wheel )
• BI/ DI/ DIPLO - TWO   e.g bicycle , biceps ( two muscles/ parts)
• TRI - THREE   e.g.  tricycle , triceps (three muscles or parts)
• QUAD - FOUR   e.g.       QUADRILATERAL , quadriceps ( four parts/ muscles)
• AB - AWAY       
• AD - TOWARDS
• TRANS - THROUGH
• MESO - MIDDLE
• MEDIO/A - MIDDLE
• LATERO - LATERAL
• PARA - NEARBY
• JUXTA - NEXT TO
• INTER - BETWEEN            
• AMBI / AMPHI - BOTH    e.g  AMPHIBIAN ( both water and land )
• IPSI - SAME
• CONTRA - AGAINST    
• A/ AN - ABSENT/LACKING  e.g.  anoxia ( absence of oxygen in the tissue / organs )
• PAN - ALL e.g.  pancytopenia  ( deficiency of all 3 cellular components of blood)
• OMNI - ALL e.g. omnivore (which eat all food types including plant and animal origin)
• MULTI - MANY   e.g.  MULTIPLE (MANY)
• POLY - MANY   e.g.  POLYGON (which shape has multiple sides)
• MICRO - SMALL     e.g.  MICROSCOPE
• MACRO - LARGE               
• MEGALO - LARGE    e.g.  MEGAPHONE
• OLIGO - FEW
• CHROMO/ CHROMATO - COLOR