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Med Term IV-DPT
Prefixes and Combining Forms
| 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 | shield (the thyroid gland resembled a shield to those who named it...) |
| top/o | place; position; location |
| tox/o | poison |
| trache/o | trachea; windpipe |
| urethr/o | urethra |
| -blast | embryonic; immature |
| -cyesis | pregnancy |
| -drome | to run |
| -fusion | coming together; 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) |
| -physis | to grow |
| -plasia | development; formation |
| -plasm | development; formation |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -ptosis | droop, sag, prolapse |
| -rrhea | flow; discharge |
| -stasis | stop, control; place |
| -trophy | nourishment, development |
| a-, an- | no, not, without |
| ab- | away from |
| ad- | toward |
| ana- | up, apart |
| ante- | before, forward |
| antepartum | before labor |
| anti- | against |
| antispepsis | anti-infection |
| auto- | self, own |
| bi- | two |
| brady- | slow |
| bradycardia | slow heartrate |
| cata- | down |
| con- | with, together |
| contra- | against, opposite |
| de- | down, lack of |
| dehydration | lack of water |
| dia- | through, complete |
| dys- | bad, painful, difficult |
| dyspnea | painful/ difficult breathing |
| ec- | out, outside |
| ecto- | out, outside |
| en- | in, within |
| endo- | in, within |
| epi- | upon, on, above |
| eu- | good, normal |
| euphoria | (exaggerated) feeling of well-being |
| euthyroid | normal thyroid function |
| ex- | out, away from |
| hemi- | half |
| hyper- | excessive, above |
| hypo- | deficient, under |
| in- | not |
| insomniac | not sleeping... |
| in- | into, within |
| incision | to cut into |
| infra- | beneath |
| inter | between |
| intra- | into, within |
| macro- | large |
| mal- | bad |
| malaise | feeling bad |
| meta- | beyond, change |
| micro- | small |
| neo- | new |
| pan- | all |
| pancytopenia | deficiency of erthrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes. |
| para- | abnormal, beside, near |
| per- | through |
| percutaneous | through the skin |
| peri- | surrounding |
| poly- | many, much |
| polyneuritis | inflammation of many nerves |
| post- | after, behind |
| pre- | before, in front of |
| pro- | before, forward |
| prodrome | before illness. (prodromal symptoms appear before the actual illness.. and signal its onset) |
| pseudo- | false |
| pseudocyesis | false pregnancy |
| re- | back, again |
| relapse | return of symptoms after recover |
| retro- | behind, backward |
| sub- | under |
| supra- | above, upper |
| syn-, sym- | together, with (ex: symphysis) |
| syn- | together, with |
| tachy- | fast |
| tachycardia | rapid heartbeat |
| trans- | across, through (ex: transfusion) |
| ultra- | beyond, excess |
| uni- | one |
| unilateral | one side |
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