Medical Terminology Simplified

30 CHAPTER 2• Body Structure

Word Element Meaning Word Analysis

Suffixes

-ad toward medi/ad(MĒ-dē-ăd): toward the middle or center

medi/o-: middle

-logist specialist in the hist/o/logist(hĭs-TŎL-ō-jĭst): specialist in the study of tissue

study of hist/o: tissue

-logy study of cyt/o/logy(sī-TŎL-ō-jē): study of cells

cyt/o: cell

-lysis separation; cyt/o/lysis(sī-TŎL-ĭ-sĭs): destruction, dissolution, or separation of a cell

destruction; cyt/o: cell

loosening

Pronunciation Help Long sound a ̄in ra ̄te e ̄in re ̄birth ı ̄in ı ̄sle o ̄in o ̄ver u ̄in u ̄nite

Short sound a ̆in a ̆lone e ̆in e ̆ver ̆ıin ı ̆t o ̆in no ̆t u ̆in cu ̆t

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