Statistics for Medical Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes

Click here to take the quiz!

General Stats
Answer Stats
Score Distribution
Your Score History

General Stats

This quiz has been taken 67 times
The average score is 77 of 346

Answer Stats

Definition	Prefix, Root, or Suffix	% Correct
anus	an/o	95%
not, without, less	-a, -an	92%
equal, like	is/o	92%
below normal, deficient	hypo-	69%
away from, cessation	de-	67%
above normal, excessive	hyper-	67%
again, backward	re-	67%
twice, double	bi-	64%
nose	rhin/rhino-	64%
toward, in the direction of	-ad	62%
increase, adherance, motion toward, very	ad-	62%
pertaining to	-al	62%
with, together, in association	co-	59%
skin	derm/dermis/dermato-	56%
inflammation	-itis	56%
muscle	my/myo-	56%
kidney	ren/reno-	56%
fat	lip/lipo-	54%
condition or process of	-y	54%
seperation, two	di-	51%
out of, away from	ex-	51%
blood	hem/hema/hemat/hemato-	51%
kidney	nephr/nephro-	51%
heart, esophageal opening of stomach	cardi/cardio-	49%
out, away	ec-	49%
upon	epi-	49%
milk	lact/lacti/lacto-	49%
death	necr/necro-	49%
urine	ur/uro-	49%
life	bio-	46%
water	hydr/hydro-	46%
bone	ost/oste/osteo-	46%
cell	cyt/cyto-	44%
outer, outside	ect-	44%
internal	endo-	44%
speech	log-	44%
bad	mal-	44%
smallness, one-millionth	micr/micro-	44%
disease	path/patho-	44%
after, behind, posterior	post-	44%
anterior, before	pre-	44%
before, forward	pro-	44%
one	-uni	44%
away from	ab	41%
pertaining to	-ac	41%
pain	-algia	41%
against, opposed to	anti-	41%
recording instrument	-graph	41%
tumor, bulk, volume	onco-	41%
bronchus	bronch/bronchi-	38%
colon	col/colo/colono-	38%
outer, outside	ecto-	38%
stomach	gastr/gastro-	38%
one who specializes in	-ist	38%
study of	-logy	38%
single	mon/mono-	38%
nerve	neur/neuri/neuro-	38%
egg	oo-/ovo-/ovulo-	38%
ear	ot/oto-	38%
through	per-	38%
surgical repair, reconstruction	-plasty	38%
foot	pod/podo-	38%
beneath	sub-	38%
blood clot	thromb/thrombo-	38%
bladder or sac	cyst/cysti/cysto-	36%
origin or production	-gen	36%
woman	gyn/gyno- gyne/gyneco-	36%
liver	hepat/hepatico/hepato-	36%
within	intra-	36%
meninges	mening/meningo-	36%
alongside of, abnormal	para-	36%
mind	psych/psyche/psycho-	36%
duct, blood vessel	vas-/vaso-	36%
before	ante-	33%
joint, articulation	arth/arthro-	33%
self/same	aut/auto-	33%
chemistry, drug	chem/chemo-	33%
cranium, skull	crani/cranio-	33%
excision, removal	–ectomy	33%
recording	–gram	33%
one-half	hemi-	33%
pertaining to	-ic	33%
between, among	inter-	33%
larynx	laryng/laryngo-	33%
lymph	lymph/lympho-	33%
large	meg/mega-	33%
instrument used for measuring	-meter	33%
tumor	-oma	33%
bone	ossi-	33%
four	quadr/quadri-	33%
together	sy/syl-	33%
cancer	carcin/carcino-	31%
exterior, outward	exo-	31%
breast	mast/masto-	31%
muscle	muscul/musculo-	31%
new	neo-	31%
around, about	peri-	31%
exaggerated fear, sensitivity	phob/phobo-	31%
air, lung	pneum/pneuma-	31%
hardness	scler/sclero-	31%
one-half, partly	-semi	31%
heat	therm/thermo-	31%
cutting operation	-tomy	31%
slow	brady-	28%
color	chrom/chromato-	28%
bad, difficult	dys-	28%
process of recording	-graphy	28%
condition	–ia/iasis	28%
straight, normal, correct	orth/ortho-	28%
ovary	ovari/ovario/ovi/ovo-	28%
hip bone	pelv/pelvi/pelvo-	28%
attraction for	–phil/philia	28%
place, topical	top/topo-	28%
toxin, poison	tox/toxi/toxico/toxo-	28%
trachea	trache/tracheo-	28%
ear drum	tympan/tympano-	28%
artery	arteri/arterio-	26%
arm	brachi/brachio-	26%
bursa	burs/burso-	26%
with, together	cor-	26%
vomit	-emesis	26%
glucose	gluco-	26%
blood	hemo-	26%
white	leuk/leuko-	26%
dissolution	lys-/lyso-/ -lytic	26%
black	melan/melanoma-	26%
fungus	myc/myco-	26%
sharp, acid, acute, oxygen	oxy-	26%
pharynx	pharyng/pharyngo-	26%
rib, pleura	pleur/pleura/pleuro-	26%
anus, rectum	proct/procto-	26%
radiation, radius	radio-	26%
instrument for viewing	-scope	26%
thorax, chest	thorac/thoracico/thoraco-	26%
thyroid gland	thyr/thyro-	26%
uric acid	uri/uric/urico-	26%
vesicle	vesic/vesico-	26%
air, gas	aer/aero-	23%
enzyme	-ase	23%
separation, taking apart	dis-	23%
blood condition	-emia	23%
red	erythr/erythro-	23%
sugar	glyc/glyco-	23%
uterus	hyster/hystero-	23%
ischium	ischi/ischio-	23%
stone, calculus	lith/litho-	23%
one who specializes in study or treatment of	-logist	23%
large, long	macr/macro-	23%
paralysis	-plegia	23%
rectum	rect/recto-	23%
above, excessive	supra-	23%
animal, animal life	zo/zoo-	23%
gland	aden/adeno-	21%
fat	adip/adipo-	21%
cheek	bucc/bucco-	21%
head	cephal/cephalo-	21%
green	chlor/chloro-	21%
against	contra	21%
cold	cry/cryo-	21%
fiber	fibr/fibro-	21%
in the form or shape of	-form	21%
cornea (eye or skin)	kerat/kerato-	21%
movement	kin/kine/kinesi/kinesio-	21%
seizure	–lepsis/lepsy	21%
large	megal/megalo-	21%
bone marrow, spinal cord	myel/myelo	21%
resemblance to	-oid	21%
a condition, disease or increase	-osis	21%
eating, devouring	–phage/phagia	21%
eating, devouring	phago-	21%
drug, medicine	pharmaco-	21%
pore, pourous	por/poro-	21%
use of instrument for viewing	-scopy	21%
condition of	-sis	21%
fast	-tachy	21%
pain	alge/algesi-	18%
bacteria	bacteri/bacterio-	18%
germ or bud	blast/blasto-	18%
bile	chol-	18%
killing, destroying	–cidal/cide	18%
digit (finger or toe)	dactyl/dactylo-	18%
duodenum	duodeno-	18%
pertaining to	-eal	18%
good, well	eu-	18%
tongue	gloss/glosso-	18%
tissue	hist/histio/histo-	18%
condition, disease	-ism	18%
tear	lacrim/lacrimo-	18%
ovary	oophor/oophoro-	18%
testis	orchi/orchido/orchio-	18%
light	phot/photo-	18%
spleen	splen/spleno-	18%
mouth	stom/stoma-	18%
together	syn-	18%
across, through, beyond	trans-	18%
hearing	acous/acouso-	15%
blood vessel	angi-	15%
process	-ation	15%
ears (aural)	-auri	15%
outside	extra-	15%
below	infra-	15%
after, behind	meta-	15%
form, shape	morph/morpho-	15%
eye	oculo-	15%
all, entire	pan/pant/panto-	15%
disease	-pathy	15%
vein	phleb/phlebo-	15%
sound	phon/phono-	15%
formation, development	-plasia	15%
multiplicity	poly-	15%
fever	pyro-	15%
twisted	scoli/scolio-	15%
sigmoid, sigmoid colon	sigmoid/sigmoido-	15%
in excess, above, superior	super-	15%
together	sym-	15%
pertaining to	-tic	15%
eyelid	bleph/blepharo-	13%
surgical puncture for aspiration	–centesis	13%
cartilage, gristle, granule, granular	chondrio/chondro-	13%
ribs	costo	13%
cell	-cyte	13%
right, on the right side	dextr/dextro-	13%
iris	irid/irido-	13%
lateral	latero-	13%
large	–megaly	13%
process of measuring	-metry	13%
ear drum	myring/myringo-	13%
normal	normo-	13%
defeciency	–penia	13%
diaphragm	phren/phreni-	13%
flowing, discharge	-rrhea	13%
nipples	thel/thelo-	13%
blood vessel	vasculo-	13%
dryness	xer/xero-	13%
extremity, topmost	acr, acro-	10%
gland	adren/adreno-	10%
pain	algio/algo-	10%
around, on all sides, both	ambi-	10%
pertaining to	-ary	10%
pouching, hernia	-cele	10%
circle, cycle	cycl-	10%
brain	-encephal/encephalo-	10%
small intestine	enter/entero-	10%
milk	–-galact/galacto-	10%
earth	geo-	10%
variant form of tongue, language	glott/glotto-	10%
speech	logo-	10%
middle	mes/meso-	10%
tooth	odont/odonto-	10%
few, little	olig/oligo-	10%
eye	ophthalm/ophthalmo-	10%
thick	pachy-	10%
fixation	pexy-	10%
eating, devouring	phagy-	10%
burst forth	–rrhage	10%
spasm	spasmo-	10%
narrowness, constriction	steno-	10%
cutting instrument	-tome	10%
growth	-trophy	10%
around	circum-	8%
on the side	cis-	8%
with, together	com-	8%
binding	-desis	8%
ilium	-ileo	8%
structure, tissue	-ium	8%
softenng	–malacia	8%
mucus	myx/myxo-	8%
fingernail, toenail	onych/onycho-	8%
bony	-osseo	8%
pertaining to	-ous	8%
addition of oxygen	oxo-	8%
light	phos-	8%
diaphragm	phrenico/phreno-	8%
old age	presby/presbyo-	8%
falling, downward placement	-ptosis	8%
discharge	–rrhagia	8%
muscular, flesh like	-sarco	8%
vertebra	spondyl/spondylo-	8%
stop, stand	-stasis	8%
pressure (of blood)	–tension/–tensive	8%
tone, tension, pressure	-tono	8%
hair, hairlike structure	trich/trichi/trichia/tricho-	8%
beyond, extensive	ultra-	8%
fermentation, enzyme	zym/zymo-	8%
seperated from, derived from	apo	5%
weakness	-asthenia	5%
sweat	hidr/hidro-	5%
the nature of, resembling	-ite	5%
nucleus	karyo-	5%
smooth	lei/leio-	5%
light, slender	lepto-	5%
slight paralysis	-paresis	5%
air, lung	pneumat/pneumato-	5%
pelvis	pyel/pyelo-	5%
pus	pyo-	5%
spine	rachi/rachio	5%
tube	salping/salpingo-	5%
left, left side	sinistr/sinistro-	5%
creation of opening	–stomy	5%
together	sys-	5%
crushing	-tripsy	5%
small	-ula/ule	5%
vein	varic/varico-	5%
yellow, yellowish	xanth/xantho-	5%
hearing condition	-acusis	3%
crooked, stiff	ankyl/ankylo-	3%
pain	-dynia	3%
expansion, dilation	–ectasis	3%
gullet	–esophageal/esophago-	3%
treatment, physician	iatr/iatro-	3%
organized knowledge, treatment	-ics	3%
movement	kino-	3%
tongue	linguo-	3%
pain	odyn/odyno-	3%
plural of tumor	-omata	3%
lens-shaped	phaco-	3%
rod shaped, straighted	rhabd/rhabdo-	3%
surgical suturing	–rrhaphy	3%
rupture	-rrhexis	3%
saliva, salivary gland	sial/sialo-	3%
childbirth	toco-	3%
joint	aticul/aticulo-	0%
down	cata-	0%
tear	dacrio-	0%
seperation	dif-	0%
force, energy	dynamo-	0%
stiff	edopotra-	0%
sensation	esthesio-	0%
jaw	gnath/gnatho-	0%
treatment	–iatrics	0%
treatment	-iatry	0%
small	-icle	0%
self, one's own	-idio	0%
spasm, contraction	-ismus	0%
humped	kyph/kypho-	0%
production	–poiesis	0%
split, cleft	-schisto	0%
split, cleft, division	schiz/schizo-	0%
food, grain	-sito	0%
body, bodily	somat- somatico- somato-	0%
semen, spermatozoa	sperma- spermato- spermo-	0%
viscera	splanchn- splanchni- splanchno-	0%
dripping, trickling	-staxis	0%
strength, force, power	stheno-	0%
mouth	stomat/stomato-	0%
tension	-tony	0%