1. Medical Terminology 2 Dr. Aidah Abu Elsoud Alkaissi
School of Nursing & Midwifery
An-Najah National University

2. Prefix
Meaning
Medical Terms
A-,an
No, not
anemia
A condition of “ no blood” .it is a decrease in the number of red blood cells or a decraese in their ability to carry oxygen because of less hemoglobin, a protein that helps carry oxygen in red blood cells
aut
self
autopsy
Viewing and examining a dead body with one´s own (self) eyes. The root OPS- (viewing) is imbeded in the suffix- opsy (process of viewing)
dia
Complete, through
diagnosis
Dia means complete
dys
Bad, painful, difficult, abnormal,
dysentery
The suffix y means condition or process
endo
within
Endocrine glands
Crin/o means to secrete (to form and give off)
Examples of endocrine glands are the thyroid gland, pituitary gland, adrenal gland, Ovaries, testes. All of these glands secrete hormones within the body and into the blood stream.

3. Endocardium. The valves and chambers within the heart are lined with endocardium

4. Prefix
Meaning
Medical Term
exo
ourside
Exocrine glands
Exe:sweat, tear, mammary (breast) glands, which secrete substances to the outside of the body
hyper
Excessive, more than normal, too much
hyperglycemia
Glyc/o means sugar, hyperglycemia may be a sign of diabetes mellitus “sweet”
hypo
Below,less than normal, under
hypoglycemia
This condition results from too much insulin in the blood stream. Symptoms are weakness, headache, and hunger
pro
Before, forward
Prostate gland
This exocrine gland “stands” (-state) before or in front of the urinary bladder in males
Re-
back
resection
- Section means cutting into an organ, but resection means removing some or all of an organ in the sense of cutting back or away.thelatin resection means “a trimming or pruning”
Retro-
behind
retrogastric
Sub.
Below, under
subhypatic
Trans
Across, through
transdermal
Transurethral:the urethra is a tube that leads from the urinary bladder to the outside of the body

5. Hyperglycemia and diabetes
Urethral resection of the prostate gland (TURP)
Please see page 19 in the textbook