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Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine.
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This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
AffixMeaningOrigin Language And EtymologyExample (s)a-, an-not, without ( alpha privative )Greek ἀ-/ἀν- ( a-/an- ), not, ...analgesic, apathy, anencephalyab-from; away fromLatinabduction, abdomenabdomin-of or relating to the abdomenLatin abdōmen, abdomen, fat around the ...abdomen, abdominal-acpertaining to; one afflicted withGreek -ακός ( -akós )cardiac, celiacMedical Abbreviations for iPhone; Medical abbreviations on mediLexicon; Medical acronyms and abbreviations on allacronyms.com; Over 20,000 medical abbreviations sorted into specialist categories; Medical abbreviations in various categories such as Physiology, Oncology, Laboratory and more
Medical abbreviations are a shorthand way of writing and talking by medical professionals (people who work to help sick people) to hurry explanation of diseases (sickness), patients, or medicines (drugs). This shorthand can include shortening (making less lengthy) of longer disease names, by cutting the word down to its base (the Latin or Greek ...
