Combining Form, Suff

Combining Form, Suffix, Prefix & Meaning

Combining Form,Suffix & Prefix a-, anababdomin/o -ac acanth/o acetabul/o acous/o acr/o acromi/o actin/o acu/o -acusis adaden/o adenoid/o adip/o adren/o adrenal/o aer/o afagglutin/o -agon agora-agra -al alb/o albin/o albumin/o alges/o -algesia -algia all/o Meaning no; not; without away from abdomen pertaining to spiny; thorny acetabulum (hip socket) hearing extremities; top; extreme point acromion (extension of shoulder bone) light sharp; severe; sudden hearing toward gland adenoids fat adrenal gland adrenal gland air toward clumping; sticking together to assemble, gather marketplace excessive pain pertaining to white white albumin (protein) sensitivity to pain sensitivity to pain pain other

alveol/o ambly/o -amine amni/o amyl/o an/o -an anaandr/o aneurysm/o angi/o anis/o ankyl/o anteanter/o anthrac/o anthr/o antianxi/o aort/o -apheresis aphth/o apoaponeur/o append/o appendic/o aque/o -ar -arche arter/o arteri/o arteriol/o arthr/o -arthria articul/o -ary asbest/o -ase

alveolus; air sac; small sac dim; dull nitrogen compound amnion (sac surrounding the embryo) starch anus pertaining to up; apart; backward; again, anew male aneurysm (widened blood vessel) vessel (blood) unequal stiff before; forward front coal antrum of the stomach against uneasy; anxious aorta (largest artery) removal ulcer off, away aponeurosis (type of tendon) appendix appendix water pertaining to beginning artery artery arteriole (small artery) joint articulate (speak distinctly) joint pertaining to asbestos enzyme

-asthenia atel/o ather/o -ation atri/o audi/o audit/o aur/o auricul/o autoaxill/o azot/o bacill/o bacteri/o balan/o bar/o bartholin/o bas/o bibi/o bil/i bilirubin/o -blast -blastoma blephar/o bol/o brachi/o brachybradybronch/o bronchi/o bronchiol/o bucc/o bunion/o burs/o byssin/o cac/o calc/o

lack of strength incomplete plaque (fatty substance) process; condition atrium (upper heart chamber) hearing hearing ear ear self, own armpit urea; nitrogen bacilli (bacteria) bacteria glans penis pressure; weight Bartholin glands base; opposite of acid two life bile; gall bilirubin embryonic; immature immature tumor (cells) eyelid cast; throw arm short slow bronchial tube bronchial tube bronchiole cheek bunion bursa (sac of fluid near joints) cotton dust bad calcium

calcane/o calci/o cali/o calic/o capillar/o capn/o -capnia carcin/o cardi/o carp/o catacaud/o caus/o cauter/o cec/o -cele celi/o -centesis cephal/o cerebell/o cerebr/o cerumin/o cervic/o -chalasia -chalasis cheil/o chem/o -chezia chir/o chlor/o chlorhydr/o chol/e cholangi/o cholecyst/o choledoch/o cholesterol/o chondr/o chore/o

calcaneus (heel bone) calcium calyx calyx capillary (tiniest blood vessel) carbon dioxide carbon dioxide cancerous; cancer heart wrist bones (carpals) down tail; lower part of body burn; burning heat; burn cecum (first part of the colon) hernia belly; abdomen surgical puncture to remove fluid head cerebellum (posterior part of the brain) cerebrum (largest part of the brain) cerumen neck; cervix (neck of uterus) relaxation relaxation lip drug; chemical defecation; elimination of wastes hand green hydrochloric acid bile; gall bile vessel gallbladder common bile duct cholesterol cartilage dance

chori/o chorion/o choroid/o chrom/o chron/o chym/o cib/o -cide -cidal cine/o cirrh/o cis/o -clasis -clast claustr/o clavicul/o -clysis coagul/o -coccus (-cocci, pl.) coccyg/o cochle/o col/o coll/a colon/o colp/o comat/o comi/o conconi/o conjunctiv/o -constriction contracor/o core/o corne/o coron/o corpor/o cortic/o

chorion (outermost membrane of the fetus) chorion choroid layer of eye color time to pour meal killing pertaining to killing movement orange-yellow to cut to break to break enclosed space clavicle (collar bone) irrigation; washing coagulation (clotting) berry-shaped bacterium coccyx (tailbone) cochlea (inner part of ear) colon (large intestine) glue colon (large intestine) vagina deep sleep to care for together, with dust conjunctiva (lines the eyelids) narrowing against; opposite pupil pupil cornea heart body cortex, outer region

cost/o crani/o cras/o crin/o -crine -crit cry/o crypt/o culd/o -cusis cutane/o cyan/o cycl/o -cyesis cyst/o cyt/o -cyte -cytosis dacry/o dacryoaden/o dacryocyst/o dactyl/o dedem/o dent/i derm/o -derma dermat/o desicc/o -desis diadiaphor/o -dilation dipl/o dips/o dist/o dors/o dorsi-

rib skull mixture; temperament secrete secrete; separate to separate cold hidden cul-de-sac hearing skin blue ciliary body of eye; cycle; circle pregnancy urinary bladder; cyst; sac of fluid cell cell condition of cells; slight increase in numbers tear tear gland tear sac; lacrimal sac fingers; toes lack of; down; less; removal of people tooth skin skin skin drying to bind, tie together complete; through sweat widening; stretching; expanding double thirst far; distant back (of body) back

-dote -drome duct/o duoden/o dur/o -dynia dys-eal ececho-ectasia -ectasis ecto-ectomy -edema -elasma electr/o em-ema -emesis -emia -emic emmetr/o enencephal/o endoenter/o eosin/o epiepididym/o epiglott/o episi/o epitheli/o equin/o -er erg/o erythem/o erythr/o

to give to run to lead, carry duodenum dura mater pain bad; painful; difficult; abnormal pertaining to out; outside reflected sound stretching; dialation; expansion stretching; dialation; expansion out; outside removal; excision; resection swelling flat plate electricity in condition vomiting blood condition pertaining to blood condition in due measure in; within brain in; within intestines (usually small intestine) red; rosy; dawn-colored above; upon;/ on epididymis epiglottis vulva (external female genitalia) skin; epithelium horse one who work flushed; redness red

-esis esoesphag/o esthes/o esthesi/o -esthesia estr/o ethm/o eti/o eu-eurysm exexanthemat/o exoextrafacifasci/o femor/o -ferent fibr/o fibros/o fibul/o -fication -fida flex/o fluor/o follicul/o -form fung/i furc/o -fusion galact/o ganglion/o gastr/o -gen -genesis -genic ger/o

condition inward esophagus nervous sensation (feeling) nervous sensation nervous sensation female sieve cause good; normal widening out; away from rash out; away from outside face fascia (membrane supporting muscles) femur (thigh bone) to carry fiber fibrous connective tissue fibula process of making split to bend luminous follicle; small sac resembling; in the shape of fungus; mushroom forking; branching to pour; to come together milk ganglion; collection of nerve cell bodies stomach producing; forming producing; forming produced by or in old age

gest/o gester/o gingiv/o glauc/o gli/o -globin -globulin glomerul/o gloss/o gluc/o glyc/o glycogen/o glycos/o gnos/o gon/o gonad/o goni/o -grade -gram granul/o -graph -graphy gravid/o -gravida gynec/o hallucin/o hem/o hemat/o hemihemoglobin/o hepat/o herni/o -hexia hidr/o hist/o histi/o home/o hormon/o

pregnancy pregnancy gum gray glue; neuroglial tissue (supportive tissue of nervous system) protein protein glomerulus tongue glucose; sugar glucose; sugar glycogen; animal starch glucose; sugar knowledge seed sex glands angle to go record granule (s) instrument for recording process of recording pregnancy pregnant woman woman; female hallucination blood blood half hemoglobin liver hernia habit sweat tissue tissue sameness; unchanging; constant hormone

humer/o hydr/o hyperhypn/o hypohypophys/o hyster/o -ia -iac -iasis iatr/o -ic -ical ichthy/o -icle idi/o ile/o ili/o immun/o in-in, -ine -ine infrainguin/o insulin/o interintraiod/o ion/o -ion -ior ipsiirir/o irid/o is/o isch/o ischi/o

humerus (upper arm bone) water above; excessive sleep sleep pituitary gland uterus; womb condition pertaining to abnormal condition physician; treatment pertaining to pertaining to dry; scaly small unknown; individual; district ileum ilium immune; protection; safe in; into; not a substance pertaining to below; inferior to; beneath groin insulin (pancreatic hormone) between within; into iodine ion; to wander process pertaining to same in iris (colored portion of eye) iris (colored portion of eye) same; equal to hold back; back ischium (part of hip bone)

-ism -ist -itis -ium jaund/o jejun/o kal/i kary/o kerat/o kernket/o kenton/o kines/o kinesi/o -kinesia -kinesis klept/o kyph/o labi/o lacrim/o lact/o lamin/o lapar/o -lapse laryng/o later/o leiomy/o -lemma -lepsy lept/o -leptic leth/o leuk/o lex/o -lexia ligament/o lingu/o lip/o

process; condition specialist inflammation structure; tissue yellow jejunum potassium nucleus horny, hard; cornea nucleus (collection of nerve cells in the brain) ketones; acetones ketones; acetones movement movement movement movement to steal humpback lip tear; tear duct; lacrimal duct milk lamina (part of vertebral arch) abdominal wall; abdomen to slide, fall, sag larynx (voice box) side smooth (visceral) muscle sheath, covering seizure thin, slender to seize, take hold of death white word; phrase word; phrase ligament tongue fat; lipid

-listhesis lith/o -lithiasis -lithotomy lob/o log/o -logy lord/o -lucent lumb/o lute/o lux/o lymph/o lymphaden/o lymphangi/o -lysis -lytic macromal-malacia malleol/o mamm/o mandibul/o -mania mast/o mastoid/o maxill/o meat/o medi/o mediastin/o medull/o mega-megaly melan/o men/o mening/o meningi/o ment/o

slipping stone; calculus condition of stones incision (for removal) of a stone lobe study of study of curve; swayback to shine lower back; loin yellow to slide lymph lymph gland (node) lymph vessel breakdown; separation; destruction; loosening to reduce, destroy; separate; breakdown large bad softening malleolus breast mandible (lower jaw bone) obsessive preoccupation breast mastoid process (behind the ear) maxilla (upper jaw bone) meatus (opening) middle mediastinum medulla (inner section); middle; soft, marrow large enlargement black menses; menstruation meninges (membranes covering the spinal cord and brain) meninges mind; chin

mesometametacarp/o metatars/o -meter metr/o metri/o mi/o micro-mimetic -mission mon/o morph/o mort/o -mortem -motor muc/o mucos/o multimut/a mutagen/o my/o myc/o mydr/o myel/o myocardi/o myom/o myos/o myring/o myx/o narc/o nas/o nat/i natr/o necr/o nect/o neonephr/o

middle change; beyond metacarpals (hand bones) metatarsals (foot bones) measure uterus (womb); measure uterus (womb) smaller; less small mimic; copy to send one; single shape; form death death movement mucus mucous membrane (mucosa) many genetic change causing genetic change muscle fungus wide spinal cord; bone marrow myocardium (heart muscle) muscle tumor muscle tympanic membrane (eardrum) mucus numbness; stupor; sleep nose birth sodium death to bind, tie, connect new kidney

neur/o neutr/o nid/o noct/i norm/o nos/o nucle/o nullinyct/o obstetr/o ocul/o odont/o odyn/o -oid -ole olecran/o olig/o om/o -oma omphal/o onc/o -one onych/o o/o oophor/o -opaque ophthalm/o -opia -opsia -opsy opt/o optic/o -or or/o orch/o orchi/o orchid/o -orexia

nerve neither; neutral; neutrophil nest night rule; order disease nucleus none night midwife eye tooth pain resembling little; small olecranon (elbow) scanty shoulder tumor; mass; fluid collection umbilicus (naval) tumor hormone nail (of fingers or toes) egg ovary obscure eye vision vision view of eye; vision eye; vision one who mouth testis testis testis appetite

orth/o -ose -osis -osmia ossicul/o oste/o -ostosis ot/o -otia -ous ov/o ovari/o ovul/o ox/o -oxia oxyoxysm/o pachypalat/o palpebr/o panpancreat/o papill/o parpara-para -parous parathyroid/o -paresis -pareunia -partum patell/a patell/o path/o -pathy pector/o ped/o pelv/i

straight full of; pertaining to; sugar condition, usually abnormal smell ossicle (small bone) bone condition of bone ear ear condition pertaining to egg ovary egg oxygen oxygen swift; sharp; acid sudden heavy; thick palate (roof of the mouth) eyelid all pancreas nipple-like; optic disc (disk) other than; abnormal near; beside; abnormal; apart from; along the side of to bear, bring forth (live births) to bear, bring forth parathyroid glands slight paralysis sexual intercourse birth; labor patella patella disease disease; emotion chest child; foot pelvic bone; hip

pend/o -penia -pepsia perperiperine/o peritone/o perone/o -pexy phac/o phag/o -phage -phagia phak/o phalang/o phall/o pharmac/o pharmaceut/o pharyng/o phas/o -phasia phe/o -pheresis phil/o -phil -philia phim/o phleb/o phob/o -phobia phon/o -phonia -phor/o -phoresis -phoria phot/o phren/o -phthisis

to hang deficiency digestion through surrounding perineum peritoneum fibula fixation; to put in place lens of eye eat; swallow eat; swallow eating; swallowing lens of eye phalanges (fingers and toes) penis drug drug throat (pharynx) speech speech dusky; dark removal like; love; attraction attraction for attraction for muzzle vein fear fear voice; sound voice; sound to bear carrying; transmission to bear, carry; feeling (mental state) light diaphragm; mind wasting away

-phylaxis physi/o -physis phyt/o -phyte pil/o pineal/o pituitar/o -plakia plant/o plas/o -plasia -plasm -plastic -plasty ple/o -plegia -plegic pleur/o plex/o -pnea pneum/o pneumon/o pod/o -poiesis -poietin poikil/o pol/o poliopolypolyp/o pont/o -porosis postposter/o -prandial -praxia pre-

protection nature; function to grow plant plant hair pineal gland pituitary gland plaque sole of the foot development; formation development; formation; growth formation pertaining to formation surgical repair more; many paralysis; palsy paralysis; palsy pleura plexus; network (of nerves) breathing lung; air; gas lung; air; gas foot formation substance that forms varied; irregular extreme gray matter (of brain or spinal cord) many; much polyp; small growth pons (a part of the brain) condition of pores (spaces) after; behind back (of body); behind meal action before; in front of

presby/o primiproproct/o prosprostat/o prot/o prote/o proxim/o prurit/o pseudopsych/o -ptosis -ptysis pub/o pulmon/o pupill/o purul/o py/o pyel/o pylor/o pyr/o pyret/o pyrex/o quadrirachi/o radi/o radicul/o rerect/o ren/o reticul/o retin/o retrorhabdomy/o rheumat/o rhin/o rhytid/o

old age first before; forward anus and rectum before; forward prostate gland first protein near itching false mind droop; sag; prolapse; fall spitting pubis (anterior part of hip bone) lung pupil (dark center of the eye) pus pus renal pelvis pylorus; pyloric sphincter fever; fire fever fever four spinal column; vertebrae x-rays; radioactivity; radius (lateral lower arm bone) nerve root back; again; backward rectum kidney network retina behind; back; backward straited (skeletal) muscle watery flow nose wrinkle

roentgen/o -rrhage -rrhagia --rrhaphy -rrhea -rrhexis rrhythm/o sacr/o salping/o -salpinx sarc/o scapul/o -schisis schiz/o scint/o scirrh/o scler/o -sclerosis scoli/o -scope -scopy scot/o seb/o sebace/o sect/o semisemin/i seps/o sial/o sialaden/o sider/o sigmoid/o silic/o sinus/o -sis -sol somat/o -some

x-rays bursting forth (of blood) bursting forth (of blood) suture flow; discharge rupture rhythm sacrum fallopian tube; auditory (eustachian) tube fallopian tube; oviduct flesh (connective tissue) scapula; shoulder blade to split split spark hard sclera (white of eye); hard hardening crooked; bent instrument for visual examination visual examination darkness sebum sebum to cut half semen; seed infection saliva salivary gland iron sigmoid colon glass sinus state of; condition solution body body

somn/o -somnia son/o -spadia -spasm sperm/o spermat/o sphen/o spher/o sphygm/o -sphyxia splanchn/o spin/o spir/o splen/o spondyl/o squam/o -stalsis staped/o staphyl/o -stasis -static steat/o -stenosis ster/o stere/o stern/o steth/o -sthenia -stitial stomat/o -stomia -stomy strept/o styl/o subsubmaxill/o -suppression

sleep sleep sound to tear; cut sudden contraction of muscles spermatozoa; sperm cells spermatozoa; sperm cells wedge; sphenoid bone globe-shaped; round pulse pulse viscera (internal organs) spine (backbone) to breathe spleen vertebra (backbone) scale contraction stapes (middle ear bone) clusters; uvula to stop; control; place pertaining to stopping; controlling fat, sebum tightening; stricture solid structure; steroid solid; three-dimensional sternum (breastbone) chest strength to set; pertaining to standing or positioned mouth condition of the mouth new opening (to form a mouth) twisted chains pole or stake under; below mandible (lower jaw bone) to stop

suprasymsynsyncop/o syndesm/o synov/o syring/o tachytars/o tax/o tel/o tele/o ten/o tendin/o -tension terat/o test/o tetrathalam/o thalass/o the/o thec/o thel/o therapeut/o -therapy therm/o thorac/o -thorax thromb/o thym/o -thymia -thymic thyr/o thyroid/o tibi/o -tic toc/o

above, upper together; with together; with to cut off, cut short; faint ligament synovia; synovial membrane; sheath around a tendon tube fast tarsus; hindfoot or ankle (7 bones between the foot and the leg) order; coordination complete distant tendon tendon pressure monster; malformed fetus testis (testicle) four thalamus sea put; place sheath nipple treatment treatment heat chest chest; pleural cavity clot thymus gland mind (condition of) pertaining to mind thyroid gland; shield thyroid gland tibia (shin bone) pertaining to labor; birth

-tocia -tocin tom/o -tome -tomy ton/o tone/o tonsill/o top/o tox/o toxic/o trache/o trans-tresia tritrich/o trigon/o -tripsy troph/o -trophy -tropia -tropic -tropin tympan/o -type -ule uln/o ultra-um umbilic/o ungu/o uniur/o ureter/o urethr/o -uria urin/o -us

labor; birth (condition of) labor; birth (a substance for) to cut instrument to cut process of cutting tension to stretch tonsil place; position; location poison poison trachea (windpipe) across; through opening three hair trigone (area within the bladder) to crush nourishment; development nourishment; development to turn turning stimulate; act on tympanic membrane (eardrum); middle ear classification; picture little; small ulna (medical lower arm bone) beyond; excess structure; tissue; thing umbilicus (navel) nail one urine; urinary tract ureter urethra urination; condition of urine urine structure; thing

uter/o uve/o uvul/o vag/o vagin/o valv/o valvul/o varic/o vas/o vascul/o ven/o; ven/i vener/o ventr/o ventricul/o venul/o -verse -version vertebr/o vesic/o vesicul/o vestibul/o viscer/o vit/o vitr/o vitre/o viv/o vol/o vulv/o xanth/o xen/o xer/o xiph/o -y zo/o

uterus (womb) uvea, vascular layer of eye (iris, choroid, ciliary body) uvula vagus nerve vagina valve valve varicose veins vesel; duct; vas deferens vessel (blood) vein venereal (sexual contact) belly side of body ventricle (of heart or brain) venule (small vein) to turn to turn vertebra (backbone) urinary bladder seminal vesicle vestibule of the inner ear internal organs life vitreous body (of the eye) glass life to roll vulva (female external genitalia) yellow stranger dry sword condition; process animal life

Created by: NaeNae on 2007-03-11

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