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LOM Chapter 4
Combining forms, prefixes and suffixes
Combining form, suffix, prefix | meaning |
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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 |
seps/o | infection |
somn/o | sleep |
son/o | sound |
the/o | to put, place |
thel/o | nipple |
thyr/o | shield. (The shape of the thyroid gland resembled a shield to those who named it.) |
top/o | place, position, location |
tox/o | poison |
trache/o | windpipe, trachea |
urethr/o | urethra |
-blast | embryonic, immature |
-cyesis | pregnancy |
-drome | to run |
-fusion | to pour |
-gen | producing, forming |
-lapse | to slide, fall, sag |
-lysis | breakdown, separation, loosening |
-meter | to measure |
-mission | to send |
-or | one who |
-partum | birth, labor |
-phoria | to bear, carry; feeling; mental state |
-plasia | development, formation |
-plasm | development, formation |
-pnea | breathing |
-ptosis | droop, sag, prolapse |
-rrhea | flow, discharge |
-stasis | stop, control; place |
-trophy | nourishment, development |
a- | no, not, without |
an | no, not, without |
ab- | away from |
ad- | toward |
ana- | up, apart |
ante- | before, forward |
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 |
ec- | out, outside |
ecto- | out, outside |
en- | in, within |
endo- | in, within |
epi- | upon, on, above |
eu- | good, normal |
ex- | out, away |
hemi- | half |
hyper- | excessive, above |
hypo- | deficient, under |
in- | not |
in- | into |
infra- | beneath |
inter- | between |
intra- | into, within |
macro- | large |
mal- | bad |
meta- | change, beyond |
micro- | small |
neo- | new |
pan- | all |
para- | near, beside, abnormal |
per- | through |
peri- | surrounding |
poly- | many, much |
post- | after, behind |
pre- | before, forward |
pseudo- | false |
re- | back, again |
retro- | behind, baclward |
sub- | under |
supra- | above, upper |
syn- | together, with |
sym- | together, with |
trachy- | fast |
trans- | across, through |
ultra- | beyond, excess |
uni- | one |