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Chabner, Chapter 4

Language of Medicine, Chapter 4, Prefixes

Word	Meaning
carp/o	wrist bones
cost/o	rib
cutane/o	skin
dactyl/o	fingers, toes
duct/o	ducts or tubes
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
norm/o	rule, order
ox/o	oxygen
pub/o	pubis (pubic bone)
seps/o	infection
somn/o	sleep
son/o	sound
thyr/o	thyroid gland
top/o	place, position
tox/o	poison
urethr/o	urethra
-blast	embryonic, immature
-cyesis	pregnancy
-gen	producing, forming
-lapse	to slide, fall, sag
-meter	to measure
-mission	to send
-ore	one who
-partum	birth, labor
-phoria	feeling
-physis	to grow
-plasia, -plasm	development, formation
-pnea	breathing
-ptosis	droop, sag
-rrhea	flow, discharge
-stasis	stop, control
-trophy	nourishment, development
ab-	away from
ad-	toward
ante-	before, forward
anti-	against
auto-	self, own
bi-	two
brady-	slow
con-	with, together
contra-	against, opposite
de-	down, lack of
dia-	through, complete
dys-	bad, painful
ec-, ecto-	out, outside
eu-	good, normal
hemi-	half
infra-	beneath
inter-	between
macro-	large
mal-	bad
meta-	beyond, change
micro-	small
neo-	new
pan-	all
para-	abnormal, beside, near
per-	through
peri-	surrounding
poly-	many, much
post-	after, behind
pre-	before, in front of
pro-	before, forward
pseudo-	false
retro-	behind, backward
sub-	under
supra-	above, upper
syn-, sym-	together, with
tachy-	fast
trans-	through
ultra-	beyond, excess
uni-	one

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Chabner, Chapter 4

Language of Medicine, Chapter 4, Prefixes