Statistics for Medical Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes

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Definition	Prefix, Root, or Suffix	% Correct
anus	an/o	95%
not, without, less	-a, -an	93%
equal, like	is/o	93%
below normal, deficient	hypo-	70%
away from, cessation	de-	68%
above normal, excessive	hyper-	68%
again, backward	re-	68%
twice, double	bi-	65%
nose	rhin/rhino-	65%
toward, in the direction of	-ad	63%
increase, adherance, motion toward, very	ad-	63%
pertaining to	-al	63%
with, together, in association	co-	60%
skin	derm/dermis/dermato-	58%
inflammation	-itis	58%
muscle	my/myo-	58%
kidney	ren/reno-	58%
fat	lip/lipo-	55%
condition or process of	-y	55%
seperation, two	di-	53%
out of, away from	ex-	53%
blood	hem/hema/hemat/hemato-	53%
kidney	nephr/nephro-	53%
heart, esophageal opening of stomach	cardi/cardio-	50%
out, away	ec-	50%
upon	epi-	50%
milk	lact/lacti/lacto-	50%
death	necr/necro-	50%
urine	ur/uro-	50%
life	bio-	48%
water	hydr/hydro-	48%
bone	ost/oste/osteo-	48%
cell	cyt/cyto-	45%
outer, outside	ect-	45%
internal	endo-	45%
speech	log-	45%
bad	mal-	45%
smallness, one-millionth	micr/micro-	45%
disease	path/patho-	45%
after, behind, posterior	post-	45%
anterior, before	pre-	45%
before, forward	pro-	45%
one	-uni	45%
away from	ab	43%
pertaining to	-ac	43%
pain	-algia	43%
against, opposed to	anti-	43%
recording instrument	-graph	43%
tumor, bulk, volume	onco-	43%
bronchus	bronch/bronchi-	40%
colon	col/colo/colono-	40%
outer, outside	ecto-	40%
stomach	gastr/gastro-	40%
one who specializes in	-ist	40%
study of	-logy	40%
single	mon/mono-	40%
nerve	neur/neuri/neuro-	40%
egg	oo-/ovo-/ovulo-	40%
ear	ot/oto-	40%
through	per-	40%
surgical repair, reconstruction	-plasty	40%
beneath	sub-	40%
bladder or sac	cyst/cysti/cysto-	38%
origin or production	-gen	38%
woman	gyn/gyno- gyne/gyneco-	38%
liver	hepat/hepatico/hepato-	38%
within	intra-	38%
meninges	mening/meningo-	38%
alongside of, abnormal	para-	38%
foot	pod/podo-	38%
blood clot	thromb/thrombo-	38%
before	ante-	35%
joint, articulation	arth/arthro-	35%
self/same	aut/auto-	35%
chemistry, drug	chem/chemo-	35%
cranium, skull	crani/cranio-	35%
excision, removal	–ectomy	35%
recording	–gram	35%
one-half	hemi-	35%
pertaining to	-ic	35%
between, among	inter-	35%
larynx	laryng/laryngo-	35%
lymph	lymph/lympho-	35%
large	meg/mega-	35%
instrument used for measuring	-meter	35%
tumor	-oma	35%
bone	ossi-	35%
mind	psych/psyche/psycho-	35%
four	quadr/quadri-	35%
together	sy/syl-	35%
duct, blood vessel	vas-/vaso-	35%
exterior, outward	exo-	33%
new	neo-	33%
around, about	peri-	33%
exaggerated fear, sensitivity	phob/phobo-	33%
air, lung	pneum/pneuma-	33%
hardness	scler/sclero-	33%
one-half, partly	-semi	33%
heat	therm/thermo-	33%
cutting operation	-tomy	33%
slow	brady-	30%
cancer	carcin/carcino-	30%
color	chrom/chromato-	30%
bad, difficult	dys-	30%
process of recording	-graphy	30%
condition	–ia/iasis	30%
breast	mast/masto-	30%
muscle	muscul/musculo-	30%
straight, normal, correct	orth/ortho-	30%
ovary	ovari/ovario/ovi/ovo-	30%
hip bone	pelv/pelvi/pelvo-	30%
attraction for	–phil/philia	30%
place, topical	top/topo-	30%
toxin, poison	tox/toxi/toxico/toxo-	30%
trachea	trache/tracheo-	30%
bursa	burs/burso-	28%
with, together	cor-	28%
glucose	gluco-	28%
blood	hemo-	28%
white	leuk/leuko-	28%
fungus	myc/myco-	28%
sharp, acid, acute, oxygen	oxy-	28%
pharynx	pharyng/pharyngo-	28%
rib, pleura	pleur/pleura/pleuro-	28%
radiation, radius	radio-	28%
instrument for viewing	-scope	28%
thorax, chest	thorac/thoracico/thoraco-	28%
thyroid gland	thyr/thyro-	28%
ear drum	tympan/tympano-	28%
uric acid	uri/uric/urico-	28%
vesicle	vesic/vesico-	28%
air, gas	aer/aero-	25%
artery	arteri/arterio-	25%
enzyme	-ase	25%
arm	brachi/brachio-	25%
separation, taking apart	dis-	25%
vomit	-emesis	25%
blood condition	-emia	25%
red	erythr/erythro-	25%
sugar	glyc/glyco-	25%
uterus	hyster/hystero-	25%
ischium	ischi/ischio-	25%
stone, calculus	lith/litho-	25%
one who specializes in study or treatment of	-logist	25%
dissolution	lys-/lyso-/ -lytic	25%
large, long	macr/macro-	25%
black	melan/melanoma-	25%
anus, rectum	proct/procto-	25%
rectum	rect/recto-	25%
above, excessive	supra-	25%
animal, animal life	zo/zoo-	25%
gland	aden/adeno-	23%
fat	adip/adipo-	23%
cheek	bucc/bucco-	23%
green	chlor/chloro-	23%
against	contra	23%
cold	cry/cryo-	23%
fiber	fibr/fibro-	23%
in the form or shape of	-form	23%
movement	kin/kine/kinesi/kinesio-	23%
seizure	–lepsis/lepsy	23%
large	megal/megalo-	23%
a condition, disease or increase	-osis	23%
eating, devouring	–phage/phagia	23%
eating, devouring	phago-	23%
drug, medicine	pharmaco-	23%
paralysis	-plegia	23%
pore, pourous	por/poro-	23%
use of instrument for viewing	-scopy	23%
condition of	-sis	23%
fast	-tachy	23%
pain	alge/algesi-	20%
germ or bud	blast/blasto-	20%
head	cephal/cephalo-	20%
bile	chol-	20%
digit (finger or toe)	dactyl/dactylo-	20%
duodenum	duodeno-	20%
pertaining to	-eal	20%
tongue	gloss/glosso-	20%
condition, disease	-ism	20%
cornea (eye or skin)	kerat/kerato-	20%
tear	lacrim/lacrimo-	20%
bone marrow, spinal cord	myel/myelo	20%
resemblance to	-oid	20%
spleen	splen/spleno-	20%
together	syn-	20%
hearing	acous/acouso-	18%
blood vessel	angi-	18%
ears (aural)	-auri	18%
bacteria	bacteri/bacterio-	18%
killing, destroying	–cidal/cide	18%
good, well	eu-	18%
tissue	hist/histio/histo-	18%
after, behind	meta-	18%
ovary	oophor/oophoro-	18%
testis	orchi/orchido/orchio-	18%
all, entire	pan/pant/panto-	18%
disease	-pathy	18%
sound	phon/phono-	18%
light	phot/photo-	18%
multiplicity	poly-	18%
sigmoid, sigmoid colon	sigmoid/sigmoido-	18%
mouth	stom/stoma-	18%
in excess, above, superior	super-	18%
together	sym-	18%
pertaining to	-tic	18%
across, through, beyond	trans-	18%
process	-ation	15%
outside	extra-	15%
below	infra-	15%
lateral	latero-	15%
form, shape	morph/morpho-	15%
normal	normo-	15%
eye	oculo-	15%
vein	phleb/phlebo-	15%
formation, development	-plasia	15%
fever	pyro-	15%
twisted	scoli/scolio-	15%
extremity, topmost	acr, acro-	13%
gland	adren/adreno-	13%
pain	algio/algo-	13%
around, on all sides, both	ambi-	13%
eyelid	bleph/blepharo-	13%
surgical puncture for aspiration	–centesis	13%
cartilage, gristle, granule, granular	chondrio/chondro-	13%
ribs	costo	13%
circle, cycle	cycl-	13%
cell	-cyte	13%
right, on the right side	dextr/dextro-	13%
milk	–-galact/galacto-	13%
earth	geo-	13%
variant form of tongue, language	glott/glotto-	13%
iris	irid/irido-	13%
speech	logo-	13%
large	–megaly	13%
middle	mes/meso-	13%
process of measuring	-metry	13%
ear drum	myring/myringo-	13%
tooth	odont/odonto-	13%
defeciency	–penia	13%
diaphragm	phren/phreni-	13%
flowing, discharge	-rrhea	13%
spasm	spasmo-	13%
nipples	thel/thelo-	13%
cutting instrument	-tome	13%
blood vessel	vasculo-	13%
dryness	xer/xero-	13%
pertaining to	-ary	10%
pouching, hernia	-cele	10%
with, together	com-	10%
brain	-encephal/encephalo-	10%
small intestine	enter/entero-	10%
ilium	-ileo	10%
few, little	olig/oligo-	10%
eye	ophthalm/ophthalmo-	10%
thick	pachy-	10%
fixation	pexy-	10%
eating, devouring	phagy-	10%
burst forth	–rrhage	10%
narrowness, constriction	steno-	10%
tone, tension, pressure	-tono	10%
growth	-trophy	10%
fermentation, enzyme	zym/zymo-	10%
seperated from, derived from	apo	8%
around	circum-	8%
on the side	cis-	8%
binding	-desis	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%
together	sys-	8%
pressure (of blood)	–tension/–tensive	8%
hair, hairlike structure	trich/trichi/trichia/tricho-	8%
beyond, extensive	ultra-	8%
crooked, stiff	ankyl/ankylo-	5%
weakness	-asthenia	5%
sweat	hidr/hidro-	5%
treatment, physician	iatr/iatro-	5%
the nature of, resembling	-ite	5%
nucleus	karyo-	5%
movement	kino-	5%
smooth	lei/leio-	5%
light, slender	lepto-	5%
tongue	linguo-	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%
crushing	-tripsy	5%
small	-ula/ule	5%
vein	varic/varico-	5%
yellow, yellowish	xanth/xantho-	5%
hearing condition	-acusis	3%
seperation	dif-	3%
pain	-dynia	3%
expansion, dilation	–ectasis	3%
gullet	–esophageal/esophago-	3%
treatment	-iatry	3%
organized knowledge, treatment	-ics	3%
self, one's own	-idio	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%
force, energy	dynamo-	0%
stiff	edopotra-	0%
sensation	esthesio-	0%
jaw	gnath/gnatho-	0%
treatment	–iatrics	0%
small	-icle	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%