amni/o

Amnion (amniotic sac)

-centesis

Surgical puncture

cervic/o

neck; cervix uteri (neck of uterus)

colp/o

vagina

vagin/o

vagina

-scopy

visual examination

-cele

hernia; swelling

galact/o

milk

lact/o

milk

-rrhea

discharge, flow

-gen

forming, origin, producing

gynec/o

woman, female

hyster/o

uterus (womb)

uter/o

uterus (womb)

mamm/o

breast

-gram

record; writing

-pexy

fixation (of an organ)

mast/o

breast

men/o

menses, menstruation

-rrhagia

bursting forth (of)

-endo

in, within

nat/o

birth

pre-

before, in front of

-oophor

ovary

ovari/o

ovary

-rrhexis

rupture

-rrhaphy

suture

perine/o

perineum

salping/o

tube (usually fallopian or eustachian tubes)

vulv/o

vulva

episi/o

vulva

-arche

beginning

-pseudo

false

-cyesis

pregnancy

-gravida

pregnant woman

primi-

first

multi-

many, much

-para

to bear (offspring)

-salpinx

tube (usually fallopian or eustachian tubes)

hemat/o

blood

-tocia

childbirth, labor

dys-

bad, painful, difficult

-version

turning

-retro

backward, behind

-tomy

incision

metr/o

uterus (womb), measure

-ptosis

downward displacement, prolapse

-ine

pertaining to/relating to

gravid

pregnant

hem/o

blood

-emia

blood

-emesis

vomitting

muc/o

mucus

-oid

resembling

-graphy

process of recording

andr/o

male

balan/o

glans penis

gonad/o

gonads, sex glands

orcho/o

orchi/o

orchid/o

testis/testes

test/o

testis/testes

-tropin

stimulate

crypt-

hidden

-ism

-ia

condition

spermat/o

spermatozoa, sperm cells

sperm/o

spermatozoa, sperm cells

a-

without, not

-cide

killing

vas/o

vessel, vas deferens, duct

varic/o

a dialated vein

vesicul/o

seminal vesicle