Quick Medical Terminology
Chapter One
Basic Word Roots
and Common Suffixes
In Unit 1 you will work with basic word roots and a handful of common
suffixes.(These are listed in the Mini-Glossary, below.) You'll examine
many compound medical terms and discover meanings for all the parts.
You'll practice adding various endings to roots and combining forms. By
study and practice you'll make more than 30 meaningful medical terms.
Mini-Glossary
acr/o (extremities) eti/o (cause)
cardi/o (heart) gastr/o (stomach)
cyan/o (blue) gram/o (record)
cyt/o (cell) leuk/o (white)
dermat/o, derm/o (skin) megal/o (enlarged)
duoden/o (duodenum) path/o (disease)
electr/o (electrical)
-algia (pain) -ology (study of)
-ectomy (excision of) -osis, -a, -y (condition
-itis (inflammation of) of, usually abnormal) ... read full excerpt from Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide ebook
