Medical Terminology Simplified

Glossary of Medical Word Elements • APPENDIX A 557

Medical Word Medical Word

Element Meaning Element Meaning

vascul/o vessel (usually blood or lymph)

ven/o vein

ventr/o belly, belly side

ventricul/o ventricle (of the heart or brain)

-version turning

vertebr/o vertebra (backbone)

vesic/o bladder

vesicul/o seminal vesicle

vest/o clothes

viscer/o internal organs

vitr/o vitreous body (of the eye)

vitre/o glassy

vol/o volume

vulv/o vulva

X, Y, Z

xanth/o yellow

xen/o foreign, strange

xer/o dry

xiph/o sword

-y condition; process

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