Medical Terminology Chapter 1 Cheat Sheet by ashap

Adeno/o	Gland
Arthr/o	Joint
Bi/o/	Life
Carcin/o	Cancer, Cancerous
Cardi/o	Heart
Cephal/o	Head
Cerebr/o	Cerebrum (biggest part of brain)
Cis/o	to cut
Crin/o	to secrete
Cyst/o	Urinary Bladder, sac, cyst
Cyt/o	Cell
Derm/o	Skin
Dermat/o	Skin
Electr/o	Electr­icity
Encephal/o	Brain
Enter/o	Intestines
Erythr/o	Red
Gastr/o	Stomach
Glyc/o	Sugar
Gnos/o	Knowledge
Gynec/o	Woman, Female
Hemat/o	Blood
Hem/o	Blood
Hepat/o	Liver
Iatr/o	Treatment, Physician
Leuk/o	White
Log/o	Study of
Nephr/o	Kidney
Neur/o	Nerve
Onc/o	Tumor (cance­rous)
Opthalm/o	eye
Oste/o	bone
Path/o	disease
Ped/o	Child
Psych/o	Mind
Radi/o	X-rays
Ren/o	Kidney
Rhin/o	Nose
Sarc/o	Flesh
Sect/o	To Cut
Thromb/o	Clot, Clotting
Ur/o	Urinary Tract, Urine

-ac	pertaining to
-al	pertaining to
-algia	pain
-cyte	cell
-ectomy	excision, removal
-emia	blood condition
-genic	pertaining to, producing, produced by, or produced in
-globin	protein
-gram	record
-ic, -ical	pertaining to
-ion	process
-ist	specialist
-itis	inflam­mation
-logy	Study of
-oma	tumor, mass swelling
-opsy	process of viewing
-osis	condition, abnormal
-pathy	disease condition
-scope	instru­mental to visually examine
-sis	state of condition
-tomy	process of cutting, incision
-y	process condition

a-, an-	no, not, without
aut-, auto-	self, own
dia-	complete, through
endo-	within
epi	above, upon
Ex-, exo-	out, outside of, outward
hyper-	excessive, above, more than normal
hypo-	deficient, below, under, less than normal
in-	into, in
peri-	Surrou­nding, around
Pro-	before, forward
re-	back, backward, again
retro-	behind
sub-	below, under
trans-	across, through