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Prefixes and Suffixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a | without or lack of |
| angi | vessel |
| ante | before |
| brady | slow |
| tracy | rapid |
| chole | bile or gall |
| contra | against |
| dys | difficult, faulty or painful |
| epi | upon |
| extra | outward |
| gluco | glucose |
| hema | blood |
| hypo | under or below |
| hyper | increase or above |
| juxta | near, close by or adjoning |
| lipo | fat |
| mamm | breast |
| mast | breast, nipple, mammory gland |
| medi | middle |
| oligo | few, scanty, slight or little |
| osteo | bone |
| para | near, beside, beyond, around, similar or abnormal |
| phleb | vein |
| pleur | side, rib or membrane covering lungs |
| rhin | nose |
| sanguin | blood |
| sarco | fleshy |
| semi | half |
| sub | under, less or beneath |
| thromb | to clump together or clot |
| troph | development or nourishment |
| syn | together |
| algia | pain |
| ectomy | excision or removal |
| itis | inflammation |
| gram | to record |
| ia | referst to, condition, or state of |
| logy | doctrine, theory or science |
| lysis | destruction, breakdown or declining |
| oma | tumor or swelling |
| pathy | disease of a specified part or kind |
| plasty | reconstruction |
| plegia | paralysis |
| stomy | surgical procedure establishing a usually permanent opening |
| acromial | shoulder |