常见医学英语词根、词缀的含义
 
1. cyto means cell
 
2. myo- refers to your: muscle
 
3. neuro means: nerve
 
4. kary/o means nucleus
 
5. leuk/o means: white
 
6. erythro/o means: red
 
7. histo/o means: tissue
 
8. melano means: black
 
9. path/o means: disease
 
10. somat/o means: body
 
11. Endo means:  Within.
 
12.  Thromb/o means:  To clot.
 
13. Brady- means: Slow.
 
14. Salping/o means：Fallopian tube.
 
15. Onych/o means：Nail.
 
16. Tachy- (as in tachycardia) means: Fast or rapid
 
17.  andro means: male
 
18. viscer/o means: internal organs
 
19. cyano means：blue
 
20. gno/o means: knowledge
 
21. onc/o means: tumor
 
22. iatr/o means: physician, medicine
 
23. lip/o: means: fat
 
24. xantho means: yellow
 
25. eti/o (as in etiology): cause
 
26. dys- means: difficult
 
27. hypo- means: below, incomplete
 
28. chrom/o means: color
 
29. rhabd/o means: rod-shaped
 
30. sarco means: flesh, connective tissue