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Med Term's Prefixes
Medical terminology Prefixes 1-68
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adip- | fat- adipose tissue |
| Amyl- | starch- amylolysis |
| An- | without- anaerobic-without oxygen |
| Ana- | up- anabolic |
| Angio/vaso- | Blood or lymph vessels- angioplasty/vasomotor (?vasosmamn?) |
| Append- | to hang something- appendicular |
| Auri/Oto- | Ear- Auricular/Otoclerosis |
| Ax- | the axis- axillary or axial skeleton |
| Blephar- | eyelid- blepharoplasty means eyelid surgery |
| Brachi- | arm- brachial plexus |
| Brachy- | short- brachycardia |
| Brady- | slow- bradycardia |
| Bronch- | airway- bronchitis means inflammation of airway |
| Bucc- | cheek- buccal means pretains to cheek |
| Cardio- | heart- cardiogram-recording of the heart |
| Carp- | wrist- carpals or carpometacarpal joint |
| Cephal- | head- cephalic/cephalad |
| Chondra- | cartliage- chondroblast/chondroclast |
| Cost/pleur- | chest/ribs- intercostal; pleural |
| Crani- | skull- cranium |
| Cysto/vesic- | bladder/vessels- cystitis/vesical |
| Cyt- | cell- cytology-study of cells |
| Dactyl- | finger/toe- dactylitis |
| De- | away from; down; not- dehydration |
| Derm- | skin- dermis |
| Dors- | Back- Dorsal |
| Endo- | inside/within- endocrine; endoplasmic |
| Epi- | upon, over at, addition to, after- epithelial; epidermis |
| Exo- | out, outside of/exterior, without- exocrine |
| Extra- | Outside of, beyond, withouth- extracellular |
| Gastr/Lapar- | stomach, abdominal wall; flank- Gastric, Laparoscapy |
| Glyco- | sugar- glycogenisis, glycogen |
| Hema/Sangui- | blood- hematoma, hemaphelic, hematology |
| Hepat- | liver- hepatic, hepatatisis |
| Homeo- | likeness; resemlance; constant unchanging state- hommeostasis |
| Hydro- | water-Hydrogen, hydrothearphy |
| Hyper- | above; excessive; beyond- hypertension |
| Hypo- | less than; below or under; beneath; deficient- hypotension |
| Inter- | between; in the midst- intercostals |
| Intra- | within; in; into-inside |
| Iso- | equal-isometric |
| Lacri- | Hears- lacriduct, lacrial |
| Lact- | milk- lactation; lactos |
| Lingu/Gloss | tongue- linqual; glossotomy |
| Lip- | fat- lipids, lipedema |
| Macro- | large- Macroscopic, Macrophage |
| Mammo/Masto- | breast- Mammogram, mastctamy, mammatitomy |
| Melan- | black- melanoma-means black tumor |
| Myo- | muscle- myosin, myositis |
| Nephr/Ren- | kidney- nephropathy the disease of the kidney. renal |
| Oculo/Ophthalm- | eye- oculomotor, oculonasal, ophalmist |
| Odont- | tooth; teeth- odontalgia- pain in tooth |
| Oophor/Oo- | Ovary; egg, ovum- oophorectomy the removal of ovary. oocyte the egg |
| Oss- | bone- ossicle a small bone |
| Para- | beside- parathryroid |
| Patho- | disease- pathology |
| Ped/Pod- | foot- pedicure; podiagist |
| Peri- | around- pericardium |
| Phleb/Ven- | vein- phlebatomy. venous; venopucture |
| Pseudo- | false- pseudoarthrosis a false joint |
| Rhino- | nose- rhinoplasty |
| Stoma- | mouth-stomatitis |
| Thorac/Stern- | chest-thoracic; sternum |
| Thromb- | blood clot-thrombous |
| Trache- | trachea; windpipe, neak region- tracheitis, tracheaostomy |
| Uter/Salphing- | uterus-uteral; fillopian tube-salphingectomy |
| Vagin/Colp- | vagina- vaginal, colposcopy the visual expection of the vigina |
| Tachy- | fast- trachycardia |
| Micro- | small |
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