Anatomy & Physiology Medical Prefixes and Suffixes

Correct, e.g., orthopedics.

Abnormal increase in production, e.g., leukocytosis.

Bone, e.g., osseous tissue.

Bone, e.g., osteoblasts.

Creation of an artificial opening, e.g., ileostomy.

Cut into or incision, e.g., appendectomy.

Oxygen, e.g., anoxia.

Feel or touch, e.g., palpate.

Beside, e.g., parathyroid glands.

Disease, e.g., pathogen, pathology, pathophysiology.

Disease, e.g., cardiomyopathy.

Chest, e.g., pectoralis major.

Child, e.g., pediatrician.

Foot, e.g., pedicle.

Surrounding, e.g., pericardial, perianal, periaortic.

To eat, e.g., phagocytosis, phagocyte.

Love or tendency toward, e.g., hydrophilic.

Vein, e.g., phlebitis, phlebotomy.

Nature, e.g., physician.

To drink, e.g., pinocytosis.

Substance, e.g., cytoplasm.

Rib, e.g., pleural membrane, pleural fluid.

Breath, e.g., pneumonia.

Foot, e.g., podiatrist.

Many, e.g., polyunsaturated, polydactyly.

After, e.g., posttraumatic stress, postnasal drip.

Before, e.g., premature, prenatal.

Rectum, e.g., proctological exam, proctologist.

False, e.g., pseudostratified epithelium, pseudodementia.

Mind, e.g., psychiatrist.

Gatekeeper, e.g., pyloric sphincter.

Fever or fire, e.g., pyrogens.

Straight, e.g., abdominus rectus.

Kidney, e.g., renal failure, renin.

Back or behind, e.g., retro-virus, retrosternal.