spir/o

breath

splen/o

spleen

spondyl/o

vertebra

squam/o

scale

staped/o

stapes (middle ear bone)

staphyl/o

clusters, grapes

-stalsis

contraction

-stasis

control, stopping, not moving

stat-

stable, stationary, stop, immediately

steat/o

fat

sten/o

narrowed

-stenosis

condition of being narrowed

stere/o

solid, three-dimensional

stern/o

sternum, breastbone

ster/o

solid structure

steth/o

chest

-sthenia

strength

-stoma

mouth, small opening

stomat/o

mouth

-stomy

mouth, forming an opening

strept/o

twisted chains

-stringent

to draw tight, compress, bind, to cause pain

sub-

under, beneath, below

super-

above

supra-

above

sym-

union, together

syn-

union, together

syring/o

tube

system/o

system

tachy-

rapid

tars/o

tarsals (ankle bones)

-taxia

muscular coordination

tax/o

order, coordination

tele-

far, distant

tendin/o

tendon

tend/o

tendon

-tension

pressure

ter-

three (3)

terat/o

monster, malformed fetus

terti-

third (1/3)

test/o

testis, testicle

tetra-

four

thalam/o

thalamus

thalass/o

sea

thel/o

nipple

the/o

god

-therapy

treatment

therm/o

heat

thorac/o

chest, thorax

-thorax

chest

thromb/o

clot

thrombocyt/o

platelet, thrombocyte

thym/o

thymus

thyr/o

thyroid

thyroid/o

thyroid

tibi/o

tibia

-tic

pertaining to

-tion

act or state of

-tocia

childbirth, labor

-tome

instrument to cut