Appendix B – English Terms
English Word
Medical Term
Abnormal condition
Abnormal condition (produced by something
specified)
above, upon
above
adrenal glands
after, behind
against
air
air, lung
anterior, front
anus, rectum
aorta
appendix
around, beside, near
around
artery
atrium
back, behind, posterior
bad, painful, difficult
before
behind, post
below, under
between
bile, gall
bile duct
birth
black
bladder
blood
blood clot
blood vessel
blue
bone
bone marrow, spinal cord
brain
breastbone
breathing
bronchus
bursting forth
calcaneum
calcium
calculus, stone
-osis
-iasis
episupraadren/o, adrenal/o
postantiaer/o
pneum/o, pneumon/o
anter/o
proct/o
aort/o
append/o
paraperiateri/o
atri/o
poster/o
dysprepostsub-, hypointerchol/e
choledoch/o
nat/o
melan/o
vesic/o, cyst/o
hem/o, hemat/o, -emia
thromb/o
hemangi/o, vascul/o
cyan/o
oste/o
myel/o
encephal/o
stern/o
-pnea
bronch/o, bronchi/o
-rrhage, -rrhagia
calcane/o
calc/o
-lith, lith/o
cancer
carpus
cartilage
cell
cerebrum
cerebellum
chest
choroid
colon
condition
cornea
cranium
crushing
cut into, incision
death
decrease
difficult
destruction, loosening, separation
digestion
dilation, expansion
discharge, flow
double, 2
dropping, falling, prolapse
dry
duodenum
ear
eardrum
eat, swallow
electric
enlargement
esophagus
Eustachian tube
excessive
excision, removal
expansion
extremities
eye
eyelid
falling, prolapse
far, farthest
fat
fear
femur
fibula
finger or toe
fixation
carcin/o
carp/o
chondr/o
cyt/o, -cyte
cerebr/o
cerebell/o
thorac/o
choroid/o
col/o, colon/o
-ia, -ism
kerat/o
crani/o
-tripsy
-tomy
necr/o
-penia
dys-lysis
-pepsia
-ectasis
-rrhea
bi-, dipl/o
-ptosis
xer/o
duoden/o
ot/o
myring/o
-pahgia
electr/o
-megaly
esophag/o
salping/o
hyper-ectomy
-ectasis
acr/o
ophthalm/o
blephar/o
-ptosis
dist/o
adip/o, lip/o
-phobia
femor/o
fibul/o
phalang/o
-pexy
formation, growth
forming, producing
four
front, anterior
fungus
gallbladder
glomerulus
glucose, sugar
gluelike
good, normal
process of recording
gum
hair
half
hardening
head
heart
hernia, swelling
heat
humerus
ileum
in
incision, cut into
inflammation
instrument to cut
instrument to view
intestine
involuntary contraction, twitching
iris
jaw
jejunum
joint
kidney
knee cap
larynx
little, scanty
liver
loin
lymph
lymph vessel
many, much
meninges
metacarpus
mouth
mucus
muscle
-plasm, -plasia
-gen, -genesis
quadrianter/o
myc/o
cholecyst/o
glomerul/o
gluc/o, glyc/o
-glia
eu-graphy
gingiv/o
trich/o
hemisclero
cephal/o
cardi/o
-cele
therm/o
humer/o
ile/o
en-tomy
-itis
-tome
-scope
enter/o
-spasm
irid/o
maxill/o
jejun/o
arthr/o
nephr/o, ren/o
patell/o
laryng/o
olig/o
hepat/o
lumbar
lymph/o
lymphangi/o
polymening/o, meningi/o
metacarp/o
or/o
muc/o
my/o
nail
narrowing, stricture
near, nearest
nerve
new
night
nose
not
pain
pancreas
paralysis
pelvis
pertaining to
pharynx
pleura
poison
polyp
process of recording
pus
radiation, x-rays
rapid
record
rectum
red
removal, excision
renal pelvis
retina
ribs
rupture
sacrum
saliva, salivary glands
sclera of the eye
self
sigmoid colon
skin
skull
slow
small
softening
specialist in the study of
specialist
speech
spine
stomach
stone, calculus
straight
onych/o
-stenosis
proxim/o
neur/o
neonoct/o
nas/o, rhin/o
an-, a-algia, -dynia
pancreat/o
-plegia
pelv/o, pelv/I
-al, -ic, -ous, -ary, -ar
pharyng/o
pleur/o
toxic/o, tox/o
polyp/o
-graphy
py/o
radi/o
tachy-gram
rect/o
erythr/o
-ectomy
pyel/o
retin/o
cost/o
-rrhesis
sacr/o
sial/o
scler/o
autosigmoid/o
cutane/o, dermat/o, derm/o, -derma
crani/o
brady-ole, -ule, micro-malacia
-logist
-ist
-phasia
spin/o
gastr/o
lith, -lith
orth/o
study
surgical puncture
surgical repair
suture
swallow, eat
sweat
swelling
teeth
thirst
three
through
thymus gland
thyroid gland
tibia
tongue
trachea
treatment
tumor
under, beneath
upon, above
ureter
urethra
urine, urination
urine
vein
ventricle
vertebrae
vision
visual examination
vessel
vomiting
water
white
within
without, not
x-rays
yellow
-logy
-centesis
-plasty
-rrhaphy
-phagia
hidr/o
-edema
dent/o, odont/o
-dipsia
tridiathym/o
thyroid/o, thyr/o
tibi/o
lingu/o
trache/o
-therapy
-oma
sub-, hypoepiureter/o
urethr/o
-uria
ur/o
ven/o, pheb/o
ventricul/o
spondyl/o, verterbr/o
-opia
-scopy
angi/o
-emesis
hydr/o
leuk/o
intra-an, -a
radi/o
xanth/o