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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. |