Medical Terminology List 8

scapul/o scapula (shoulder blade) –Scapulalgia Pain in the shoulder blade –Scapular Pertaining to the shoulder blade

son/o Sound –Sonogram –Sonography –Sonorous

thyroid/o Thyroid gland –Hyperthyroidism –Hypothyroidism –Thyroidectomy –Thyroid gland –Parathyroid

top/o to put, place, position –Topical –Topography –Topalgia

troph/o development, nourishment –Trophic –Trophology –trophopathy

inter- between –Intervertebral –Intermuscular –Internal –Internatal –Interspinal

Intra with in –intracranial –Intrauterine –Intravenous –Intramuscular –Intrapartum –Intrapsychic –Intrathoracic

If you give an injection of pain medication into the muscle (IM). Would you say it was an –Intermuscular injection –Intramuscular injection

mal- Bad –Malignant –Malodorous –Malnutrition –Malpractice

meta- change, beyond –Metastasis –Metabolism

neo- New –Neonatal –Neoplasm –Neoplastic

para- beside, near, along the side –Paralysis –Paraplegia –Parathyroid –parathyroid hormone

peri- Surrounding –Perianal –Periosteum

poly- many, much –polydipsia –Polyuria –Polyneuropathy –Polyphagia

post- after, behind –Postmortem –Postpartum

pre- Behind –Precancerous –Prenatal

pro- before, forward –prolapse

-ine pertaining to

-lapse to fall, slide –Prolapse

-mission to send –Remission –Admission

-mortem Death –Postmorteum

-ous pertaining to –Malodorous

-partum Birth –Postpartum

-phagia to eat, swallow –Dysphagia –Aphagia –Polyphagia

-phasia to speak –Aphasia –Dysphasia –bradyphasia