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NTI Medical Terms
Medical prefixes, stems, and suffixes for NTI
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a, an | absent, deficient |
| ab | away from |
| ad | toward |
| ambi | both |
| aniso | unequal |
| ante | before |
| ant(i) | against |
| auto | self |
| baso | blue |
| bi | two |
| bio | life |
| brady | slow |
| circum | around |
| co, com, con | with, together |
| contra | against |
| de | down, from |
| di | two |
| dia | through |
| dipl | double |
| dis | apart, away from |
| dys | bad, difficult, improper |
| e, ecto, ex | out from |
| end(o) | inside, within |
| enter(o) | intestine |
| epi | upon, after |
| equi | equal |
| glyco | sweet |
| hemi | half |
| hyper | above, excessive |
| hypo | under, deficient |
| infra | beneath |
| inter | among, between |
| intra | within |
| iso | equal |
| kilo | one thousand |
| macro | large |
| mal | bad, abnormal |
| medi | middle |
| mega | huge, great |
| melan | black |
| meta | after, next |
| micro | small, one-millionth |
| milli | one-thousandth |
| mon(o) | one, single |
| morph | shape |
| necro | dead |
| neo | new |
| neutro | neutral, neither |
| olig | few |
| orth | straight, normal |
| pan | all |
| para | beside, accessory to |
| per | through |
| peri | around |
| phago | to eat |
| poly | many |
| post | after |
| pre, pro | before |
| pseudo | false |
| psycho(o) | mind |
| py(o) | pus |
| quad(r) | four |
| retro | backward |
| semi | half |
| steno | narrow |
| sub | under |
| super, supra | above |
| syn | together |
| tachy | rapid, fast |
| therm | heat |
| trans | through |
| tri | three |
| uni | one |
| adeno | gland |
| alg | pain |
| arter | artery |
| arthr | joint |
| audio | hearing |
| brachi | arm |
| bronch(i) | air tube in lungs |
| card | heart |
| calc | stone |
| carcin | cancer |
| caud | tail |
| ceph(al) | head |
| chol | bile, gall bladder |
| chondr | cartilage |
| chrom | color |
| cran | skull |
| cut | skin |
| cyan | blue |
| cyst | bladder, bag |
| cyt(o) | cell |
| dactyl | finger |
| dent, dont | tooth |
| derm | skin |
| edema | swelling |
| erythro | red |
| febr | fever |
| gastro(o) | stomach |
| genito | reproductive |
| gloss | tongue |
| hem(a), haem | blood |
| hepat(o) | liver |
| histo | tissue |
| hystero | uterus |
| iatro | physician |
| lip | fat |
| lith | stone |
| mening | membrane covering brain |
| morph | shape, form |
| myel | marrow |
| myo | muscle |
| nephro | kidney |
| neur | nerve |
| onc | tumor, cancer |
| ophthal | eye |
| os | mouth |
| os, osteo | bone |
| oto | ear |
| path | disease |
| phleb | vein |
| phob | fear |
| phot | light |
| pneum | air, lung |
| pod | foot |
| pulm | lung |
| ren | kidney |
| rhin | nose |
| scler | hard |
| sep | poison |
| soma(t) | body |
| sperm | seed |
| stoma | mouth, opening |
| thorac | chest |
| tome | knife |
| tox(ic) | poison |
| ur(o), uria | urine |
| vas | vessel |
| ven | vein |
| algia | pain |
| blast | primitive, germ |
| centesis | puncture, aspiration |
| cide | death, killer |
| ectomy | excision, cut out |
| emesis | vomiting |
| emia | in/of the blood |
| genic | origin, producing |
| ia | state, condition |
| iasis | process, condition |
| iole | small |
| itis | inflammation |
| lysis | free, breaking down |
| oid | resembling, similar to |
| (o)logy | study of |
| oma | tumor |
| osis | state, condition, increase |
| ostomy | create an opening |
| otomy | cut into |
| opathy, pathia | disease |
| penia | lack of |
| phil | affinity for, liking |
| phyte | plant |
| plastic, plastia | to form or mold |
| poiesis | to make |
| rrhage | excessive flow |
| rrhea | flow |
| scope, scopy | view |
| stasis | same, standing still |
| troph(y) | nourishment |
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