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Medical Prefixes and Suffixes Study Notes

• CARCIN/O-:

  • Means "crab-like."

• CARDI/O-:

  • Refers to the "heart."

• CARP/O-:

  • Denotes the "wrist."

• CATA-:

  • Indicates "breakdown" or "down."

• CATARACT-:

  • Means "waterfall" or "cloudiness."

• CATARRH-:

  • Signifies "to flow down."

• CATHETER/O-:

  • Refers to "to let down into" (typically used in medical procedures).

• CAUD/O-:

  • Denotes "tail" or "toward tail."

• CAUST/O-:

  • Means "burn" or "heat."

• CAUTER/O-:

  • Refers to "to burn" or "to heat."

• CAV-:

  • Indicates "hollow."

• CEBO-:

  • Means "meal" or "food."

• CEC/O-:

  • Refers to a "blind pouch."

• -CELE-:

  • Signifies "swelling" or "tumor."

• CELI/O-:

  • Relates to "abdomen" or "belly."

• CELLUL/O-:

  • Indicates "chambers."

• CEMENT/O-:

  • Means "hard."

• -CENTESIS-:

  • Refers to "surgical puncture to drain fluid."

• CENTI-:

  • Represents "one-hundredth part" (100).

• CENTR/I-:

  • Denotes "center."

• CEPHAL/O-:

  • Refers to the "head."

• -CEPT-:

  • Means "receiver."

• CEREBR/O-:

  • Indicates the "brain."

• CERU-:

  • Refers to "wax."

• CERV/I-:

  • Means "neck."

• CHALAZ/IO-:

  • Denotes "hailstone."

• CHANCR/O-:

  • Signifies "ulcer" (sore).

• CHEIL/O-:

  • Refers to "lip."

• CHIRO-:

  • Means "hand."

• CHLOR/O-:

  • Indicates "green."

• CHOLANGIO-:

  • Refers to "bile duct."

• CHOLE-:

  • Means "bile" or "gall."

• CHOLECYST/O-:

  • Denotes "gallbladder."

• CHOLEDOCH/O-:

  • Refers to "gallbladder duct" (canal).

• CHOLERA-:

  • Indicates "biliary acute diarrhea."

• CHONDR/O-:

  • Means "cartilage."

• CHROM/O-:

  • Refers to "colored."

• CHYME-:

  • Indicates "juice."

• -CICATRIX-:

  • Refers to a "scar."

• -CID-:

  • Means "to kill."

• CIL/I-:

  • Indicates "eyelash-like."

• CINE/O-:

  • Refers to "movement filming."

• CIRCUM-:

  • Means "around."

• CIRRH/O-:

  • Indicates "yellow-orange."

• -CIS-:

  • Means "cut" or "to cut."

• -CLAST-:

  • Denotes "breakdown."

• CLAVICUL/O-:

  • Refers to "collarbone."

• CLEIDO-:

  • Means "clavicle" or "collarbone."

• CLINO-:

  • Indicates "bent."

• -CLYSIS-:

  • Signifies "irrigation" or "injection."