 | Term | Definition |
| |
abdomin/o |
abdomen |
| |
adip/o |
fat |
| |
anter/o |
front |
| |
bol/o |
to cast (throw) |
| |
cervic/o |
neck (of the body or the uterus) |
| |
chondr/o |
cartilage (type of connective tissue) |
| |
chrom/o |
color |
| |
coccyg/o |
coccyx (tailbone) |
| |
crani/o |
skull |
| |
cyt/o |
cell |
| |
dist/o |
far, distant |
| |
dors/o |
back portion of the body |
| |
hist/o |
tissue |
| |
ili/o |
ilium (part of the pelvic bone) |
| |
inguin/o |
groin |
| |
kary/o |
nucleus |
| |
later/o |
side |
| |
lumb/o |
lower back (side and back between the ribs and the pelvis) |
| |
medi/o |
middle |
| |
nucle/o |
nucleus |
| |
pelv/i |
pelvis |
| |
poster/o |
back, behind |
| |
proxim/o |
nearest |
| |
sacr/o |
sacrum |
| |
sarc/o |
flesh |
| |
spin/o |
spine, backbone |
| |
thel/o |
nipple |
| |
thorac/o |
chest |
| |
trache/o |
trachea, windpipe |
| |
umbilic/o |
navel, umbilicus |
| |
ventr/o |
belly side of the body |
| |
vertebr/o |
vertebra, vertebrea, backbone, backbones |
| |
viscer/o |
internal organs |
| |
ana- |
up |
| |
cata- |
down |
| |
epi- |
above |
| |
hypo- |
below |
| |
inter- |
between |
| |
meta- |
change |
| |
-eal |
pertaining to |
| |
-iac |
pertaining to |
| |
-ior |
pertaining to |
| |
-ism |
process, condition |
| |
-ose |
pertaining to, full of |
| |
-plasm |
formation |
| |
-somes |
bodies |
| |
-type |
picture, classification |
