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Med Term's Prefixes
Medical terminology Prefixes 1-68
Question | Answer |
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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 |