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Welcome to the MTWorld free information page on common medical root words. This page on medical root words is designed to be as comprehensive as possible and is provided as a free resource for medical transcriptionists but can also be useful for non medical transcriptionists and anyone in a related healthcare or medical career field. We hope you find our common medical root word page useful.

Root Words	Meaning	Example
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Macr	abnormal largeness	macromolecular
Mamm	breast	mammary
Mandibul	mandible (lower jawbone)	mandibular
Mast	breast	mastitis
Mastoid	mastoid	mastoidotomy
Maxilla	maxilla (upper jawbone)	maxillary
Meat	meatus (opening)	meatus
Melan	black	melanoma
Men	menstruation	menstrual
Mening	meninges	meningitis
Menisci	meniscus (crescent)	meniscus
Ment	mind	mental
Metr	uterus	metroptosis
Mon(o)	one	monoparesis
Morph(o)	form; shape	morphology
Muc	mucus	mucosal
My	muscle	myasthenia
Myc	fungus	mycete
Myel	bone marrow; spinal cord	myeloma
Myelon	bone marrow; spinal cord	myelonic
Myos	muscle	myostroma

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