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Med. Term. Ch 4
Prefixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Carp/o | Wrist Bones |
| Cib/o | Meals |
| Cis/o | To Cut |
| Cost/o | Rib |
| Cutane/o | Skin |
| Dactyl/o | Fingers, Toes |
| Duct/o | To lead, carry |
| 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 |
| Nect/o | To bind, tie, connect |
| Norm/o | Rule, order |
| Ox/o | Oxygen |
| Pub/o | Pubis |
| Seps/o | Infection |
| Somn/o | Sleep |
| Son/o | Sound |
| The/o | To put, place |
| Thel/o | Nipple |
| Thyr/o | Thyroid Gland |
| Top/o | Place, position |
| Tox/o | Poison |
| Trache/o | Trachea |
| Urethr/o | Urethra |
| -blast | Immature cell |
| -crine | To secrete |
| -cyesis | Pregnancy |
| -drome | To run |
| -fusion | Coming together |
| -gen | Substance that produces |
| -lapse | To slide, fall |
| -lysis | Breakdown, Destruction |
| -meter | To measure |
| -mission | To send |
| -mission | To send |
| -or | One who |
| -partum | Birth, labor |
| -phoria | To bear, carry |
| -physis | To grow |
| -plasia | Development |
| -plasm | Structure, Formation |
| -oxia | Oxygen |
| -phasia | Development, growth |
| -pnea | Breathing |
| -ptosis | Falling, Drooping |
| -rrhea | Flow, discharge |
| -stasis | Stopping, controlling |
| -trophy | Development |
| A-, an- | No, Not, Without |
| Ab- | Away from |
| Ad- | Toward |
| Ana- | Up, apart |
| Ante- | Before |
| Anti- | Against |
| Auto- | Self, Own |
| Bi- | Two |
| Brady- | Slow |
| Cata- | Down |
| Con- | With, Together |
| Contra- | Against, Opposite |
| De- | Down, Lack of |
| Dia- | Through, Complete |
| Dys- | Bad, Painful, Difficult, Abnormal |
| Ec-,Ecto- | Out, outside |
| En-,endo- | In, within |
| Epi- | Upon, Above |
| Eu- | Good, Normal |
| Ex- | Out. Outside, away from |
| Hemi- | Half |
| Hyper- | Excessive |
| Hypo- | Deficient |
| In- | Into, within |
| Infra- | Beneath, Under |
| Inter- | Between |
| Intra- | In, within, into |
| Macro- | Large |
| Mal- | Bad |
| Meta- | Change |
| Micro- | Small |
| Neo- | New |
| Pan- | All |
| Para- | Beside, Near |
| Per- | Through |
| Peri- | Around |
| Poly- | Many, Much |
| Post- | After, Behind |
| Pre- | Before, in front of |
| Pro- | Before, forward |