Medical Terminology
Unit Four
 
Root or affix
Definition
angi/o vessel
arter/i/o artery
blast/o embryo
blephar/o eyelid
fibr/o fiber
hem/o, hemat/o blood
hyster/o uterus
kinesi/o motion
lys/o destruction
melan/o black
my/o muscle
nephr/o kidney
neur/o nerve
oophor/o ovary
peps/o, peps/ia digestion
pne/o air, breathing
pneum/o, pneumono lung
pyel/o kidney
salping/o fallopian tube
scler/o tough, hard
spermat/o sperm
ureter/o ureter
urethr/o urethra
ur/o urine
a-, an- without
brady- slow
dys- difficult or without pain
tachy- fast
-blast embryonic
-ia noun ending
-orrhaphy suture
-orrhagia hemorrhage
-pexy fixing, fixation
-ptosis drooping
-spasm twitching
-sperm sperm
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