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CH 4 LOM
Prefixes
Question | Answer |
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Cis/o | to cut |
Cutane/o | skin |
Duct/o | to lead, carry |
Flex/o | bend |
Glyc/o | sugar |
Immun/o | protection |
Morph/o | shape, form |
Ox/o | oxygen |
Tox/o | poison |
-blast | immature |
-fusion | coming together |
-gen | producing, forming |
-phoria | feeling (mental state) |
-plasm | development, formation |
-pnea | breathing |
-rrhea | discharge |
abduction | taking away (away from body) |
adduction | adding (towards the body) |
anti | against |
ante | before |
inter | between |
infra | around |
intra | into |
a-,an- | no, not, without |
ab- | away from |
ad- | toward |
ante- | before, forward |
anti- | against |
auto- | self, own |
bi- | two |
brady- | slow |
de- | down, lack of |
dia- | through, complete |
dys- | bad, painful, difficult, abnormal |
ec-,ecto- | out, outside |
en-,endo- | out, outside |
epi- | upon, on, above |
hemi- | half |
hyper- | excessive, above |
hypo- | defficient, under |
inter- | between |
intra- | into, within |
mal- | bad |
micro- | small |
neo- | new |
peri- | surrounding |
poly- | many, much |
post- | after, behind |
pre- | before, in front of |
pseudo- | false |
re- | back, again |
retro- | behind, backward |
sub- | under |
supra- | above, upper |
tachy- | fast |
trans- | through, across |
uni- | one |
ectopic pregnancy | embryo implants outside uterus |
prolapse | on organ or tissue slides forward or downward |