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Med. Term. Ch 4
Prefixes
Question | Answer |
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Carp/o | Wrist Bones |
Cib/o | Meals |
Cis/o | To Cut |
Cost/o | Rib |
Cutane/o | Skin |
Dactyl/o | Fingers, Toes |
Duct/o | To lead, carry |
Flex/o | To bend |
Furc/o | Forking, Branching |
Gloss/o | Tongue |
Glyc/o | Sugar |
Immun/o | Protection |
Morph/o | Shape, Form |
Mort/o | Death |
Nat/i | Birth |
Nect/o | To bind, tie, connect |
Norm/o | Rule, order |
Ox/o | Oxygen |
Pub/o | Pubis |
Seps/o | Infection |
Somn/o | Sleep |
Son/o | Sound |
The/o | To put, place |
Thel/o | Nipple |
Thyr/o | Thyroid Gland |
Top/o | Place, position |
Tox/o | Poison |
Trache/o | Trachea |
Urethr/o | Urethra |
-blast | Immature cell |
-crine | To secrete |
-cyesis | Pregnancy |
-drome | To run |
-fusion | Coming together |
-gen | Substance that produces |
-lapse | To slide, fall |
-lysis | Breakdown, Destruction |
-meter | To measure |
-mission | To send |
-mission | To send |
-or | One who |
-partum | Birth, labor |
-phoria | To bear, carry |
-physis | To grow |
-plasia | Development |
-plasm | Structure, Formation |
-oxia | Oxygen |
-phasia | Development, growth |
-pnea | Breathing |
-ptosis | Falling, Drooping |
-rrhea | Flow, discharge |
-stasis | Stopping, controlling |
-trophy | Development |
A-, an- | No, Not, Without |
Ab- | Away from |
Ad- | Toward |
Ana- | Up, apart |
Ante- | Before |
Anti- | Against |
Auto- | Self, Own |
Bi- | Two |
Brady- | Slow |
Cata- | Down |
Con- | With, Together |
Contra- | Against, Opposite |
De- | Down, Lack of |
Dia- | Through, Complete |
Dys- | Bad, Painful, Difficult, Abnormal |
Ec-,Ecto- | Out, outside |
En-,endo- | In, within |
Epi- | Upon, Above |
Eu- | Good, Normal |
Ex- | Out. Outside, away from |
Hemi- | Half |
Hyper- | Excessive |
Hypo- | Deficient |
In- | Into, within |
Infra- | Beneath, Under |
Inter- | Between |
Intra- | In, within, into |
Macro- | Large |
Mal- | Bad |
Meta- | Change |
Micro- | Small |
Neo- | New |
Pan- | All |
Para- | Beside, Near |
Per- | Through |
Peri- | Around |
Poly- | Many, Much |
Post- | After, Behind |
Pre- | Before, in front of |
Pro- | Before, forward |