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Chapter 1 prefixes
| A | Without |
| Ab | Away from |
| Anti | Against |
| Cac | Bad |
| Centi | One hundred, one hundredth |
| Dia | Through |
| Hetero | Different |
| Mal | Bad |
| Micro | Small |
| Mill | One thousandth |
| Multi | Many, much |
| Para | Beside |
| Pro | Before |
| Syn | Together |
| Dis | Apart |
| Epi | Upon |
| Ex | Out |
| In | In, into |
| Adhes | Stuck to |
| Axill | Armpit |
| Centr/i | Center |
| Chem/o | Chemical |
| Format/o | A shaping |
| Gene | Formation, produce |
| Kil/o | A thousand |
| Macr/o | Large |
| Necr/o | Death |
| Norm | Rule |
| Onc/o | Tumor |
| Organ/o | Organ |
| Pyr | Fever |
| Pyr/o | Heat, fire |
| Radi/o | Ray, xray |
| Scop | To examine |
| Sept | Putrefication |
| Therm/o | Hot, heat |
| Tuss | Cough |
| Infect | To infect |
| Dem | People |
| Eti/o | Cause |
| Cis | To cut |
| Malign | Bad kind |
| Maxim | Greatest |
| Minimum | Least |
| Palm | Palm |
| Prophylact | Gaurding |
| auto | Self |
| eu | Good, normal |
| ex exo | Out, away from |
| hetero | Different |
| homeo | Similar, same, likeness, constant |
| hidro | Sweat |
| hydro | Water |
| pseudo | False |
| sym syn | Together, with |
| de | Down, away from |
| ep epi | Upon, over, above |
| circum peri | Around |
| extra | Outside, beyond |
| inter | Between |
| intra | Within, into |
| para | Beside, alongside |
| supra | Above, beyond, superior |
| ambi | Both |
| bi | Two, double |
| poly | Many |
| semi hemi | Half |
| Sign | Any objective clinical evidence of an illness or disordered function of the body. |
| Symptom | Any perceptible change in the function of the body that indicates disease. |