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medical terminology prefixes
Question | Answer |
---|---|
ab- | away from |
ad- | to;toward |
ante- | before |
astr- | star |
auto- | self |
brady- | slow |
ect- | outside;outer |
en- | within;in |
endo- | within;inner |
epi- | above;upon |
ex- | out;outer |
hemi- | half |
infra- | below;inferior |
inter- | between;among |
intra- | within |
iso- | same;equal |
retro- | behind, backward |
tri- | three |
uni- | one |
carcin- | cancerous |
meta- | change, after, beyond |
pan- | all |
para- | near, beside |
peri- | around, surrounding |
sub- | below, under |
super- | above, over, excess |
supra- | above, on top of |
syn- | together, with, union |
a-, an-, ana- | no, not, without |
anti- | against |
contra- | against, opposite |
milli- | one thousandth |
dys- | difficult,painful |
hyper- | above, excessive |
hypo- | deficient, below |
mal- | bad, poor, abnormal |
macro- | large |
micro- | small |
multi- | many |
neo- | new |
poly- | many |
post- | after |
pre- | before |
semi- | half |
tachy- | fast |
non- | not |
bi- | two,double, both |
centi- | hundred hundredth |
dec - | ten |
quadr- | four |