Medical prefix

Layman's term

Medical prefix

Layman's term

pan -

all

salpingo-

tube

para -

beside

sebum

wax, suet

part -

birth, labour

semin -

seed

ped -, pod-

foot

sial -

saliva

paed -

child

soma -

body

peri -

around

splen -

spleen

pharyng -

pharynx

spondyl -

spine

phleb -

vein

squam -

scaly

phrenic -

diaphragm

stoma -

mouth

pleur -

pleura of lung

stric -

narrowing

pneumo -

lung

sub -

below

Poly -

many

super -

above

post -

behind

supra -

above

pre -

before

tachy -

rapid

pro -

forward

thel -

nipple

procto -

rectum

therm -

heat

pseudo -

false

thorac -

thorax

psycho -

mind,soul

thrombo -

clot

pulm -

lung

trache -

trachea

pyelo -

bowl of kidney

trachel -

neck

pyo -

pus

trans -

across

ren -

kidney

vas -

vessel

retro -

backward

vesic -

bladder, sac

rhin -

nose

viscera -

organ