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Medical Terminology
pre fix and suffix
Term | Definition |
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a-,an- | not, without |
brady- | slow |
-cele | swelling/hernia |
chole- | gall/bile |
contra- | against |
-desis | bonding or fusing |
dys- | difficult/painful |
-ectomy | excision |
-emia | blood |
endo | inner, inside of |
enter/0 | intestines |
gluco;glyco- | sugar |
herni/a | rupture |
hist/o | tissue |
-iasis | condition of |
laparo- | abdomen/abdominal wall |
mal- | bad,poor |
myel/0 | spinal cord,bone marrow |
-oma | toumor |
ortho- | straight |
-osis | abnormal condition |
stomy | creating an artificiatl opening |
otomy | incision into |
para | near, beside, alongside |
pathy | disease |
ped(greek) | child |
ped(latin) | feet |
peri | surrounding |
pnea | breathing |
poly | many |
rrhea | flow, discharge |
rrhage | bursting forth |
spondyl/o | vertebra |
trophy | development,nurishment,condition of |
vas/o | vessel |
Malacia | softing |
Lysis | setting free |
centesis | surgical puncture |
meta | beyond |
dynia | pain |
plasty | modling/shaping |
oid | like/resemble |
hypo | below/under |
hyper | above/over |
stasis | control flow |
ante | pre/before |
algia | pain |
inter | between |
intra | within |