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Prefixes
Health Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hydro | Fluid, water |
| Inter | Between |
| Intra | Within |
| Iso | Equal |
| Mal | ill, bad |
| Meta | After, Beyond, Change |
| Multi | Many, more, more than one |
| Neo | New or abnormal |
| Poly | many, much |
| Post | After, Behind |
| Pro | Before, in-front of, forward |
| Retro | Behind, backward |
| Sub | Under, below, Beneath |
| Supra | Above, on the top side |
| Tachy | Fast |
| Trans | Across, over |
| Ab | away from midline |
| Acu | needle |
| Anti | against |
| Auto | self |
| Bi | two, both, double |
| Dys | abnormal, bad, painful |
| Hemi | Half |
| Hetero | Opposite, different |
| A, An | Without, none |
| Ad | Toward/near midline |
| Acro | Extremities |
| Ambi | on both sides |
| Bio | Life |
| Brady | slow |
| Circum | Around, encircling |
| Contra | against |
| Dys | Difficult, painful, bad, abnormal |
| Endo | Within |
| Homo | same, similar |
| Hyster | uterus |
| Men | Menstruation |
| Quadri | four |
| Re | Back, Again |
| Super | Above, beyond |
| Tri | Three |
| Epi | Upon , over, above, too much, over, beyond |
| Hypo | Less than, under, below, deficient |