Medical Terminology - Lesson 6 - A thru H Prefixes & Suffixes
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| A, An | Without (anemia = without blood)
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| Ab | Away from (abduction = to rotate away from (in medicine))
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| Ad | Toward (adventure = toward a venture)
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| Algia | Pain (neuralgia = nerve pain)
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| Ante | Before; Wall part (antediluvian = before the biblical flood)
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| Anti | Against (antibiotic, antifreeze)
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| Bi | Two, double (bilateral, bilingual)
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| Brady | Slow (bradycardia = slow heartbeat)
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| Circum | Around (circumnavigate; circumrenal = around the kidney)
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| Co, Con | Together (coworker; concentric; congenital = with birth, or born with)
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| De | Down, Away from (dehydrate = away from hydration)
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| Desis | Binding; Fixation of (arthrodesis = surgical fixation of a joint)
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| Dia | Through (diagonal; diaplacental = through the placenta)
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| Dys | Difficult; Abnormal (dysfunctional; dysemia = abnormal blood)
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| Ecto | Outside (extocornea = outer layer of the cornea)
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| Ectomy | Excision (to cut out & remove) (tonsillectomy)
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| Endo | Within (endoskeleton = body support of inside skeleton; endogastric = within the stomach)
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| Epi | Outer, on top of, over (epicurean; epigastric = top of stomach)
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| Exo | Away from (exotic = away from the usual; exophthalmus = eyes bulging away from)
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| Extra | Outside, Beyond (extrasensory, extracurricular)
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| Ferro | Iron (ferrokinetics = study of iron metabolism)
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| Fore | Before, front, front-facing (forehead, forecast)
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| Form | Shape of (reniform = kidney-shaped)
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| Graphy | Writing, Record (telegraph = distance writing; graphospasm = writer's cramp)
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| Hemi | Half (hemisphere = half of a sphere; hemiparesis = paralysis to one half of the body)
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| Hydra, Hydro | Water (hydrophobia = fear of water; hydrate = increase water concentration and/or content)
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| Hyper | Above (also high, fast) (hypertension = high blood pressure; hyperactive)
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| Hypo | Below (also low, slow) (hypothermic = below optimal temperature)
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