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Ch.2 Pre/Root/Suffix

Ch.2 prefixes, root words, suffixes

TermDefinition
2.2 angi blood vessel
2.2 cardi heart
2.2 vas vessel
2.2 ven vein
2.3 abdomin abdomen
2.3 colo colon (large intestine)
2.3 dent teeth
2.3 enter intestines
2.3 gastr stomach
2.3 gingiv gums
2.3 gloss tongue
2.3 hepat liver
2.3 lingua tongue
2.3 naso nose
2.3 proct rectum
2.3 pneum lungs
2.3 pulm lung
2.3 stomat mouth
2.4 hem blood
2.4 phleb vein
2.4 throm blood clot
2.5 derm skin
2.5 trich hair
2.5 vesic blister
2.6 arth joint
2.6 brach arm
2.6 cervic neck
2.6 cost rib
2.6 crani skull
2.6 lamin vertebrae (backbones)
2.6 my muscle
2.6 oste bone
2.6 pod foot
2.6 rhin nose
2.7 cephal head
2.7 cerebr cerebrum (part of brain)
2.7 encephal brain
2.7 mening meninges (brain covering)
2.7 myel spinal cord
2.7 myring eardrum
2.7 neur nerve
2.7 ocul eye
2.7 ophtalm eye
2.7 ot ear
2.8 adip fat
2.8 anter in front of
2.8 aut self
2.8 bio life
2.8 carcin cancer
2.8 cry cold
2.8 dextr to the right
2.8 dors back
2.8 erythr red
2.8 gluc, glyc sugar
2.8 herni rupture
2.8 hist tissue
2.8 hydr water
2.8 lact milk
2.8 later side
2.8 lip fat
2.8 leuk white
2.8 lev to the left
2.8 lith stone
2.8 macr large
2.8 med middle
2.8 melan black
2.8 micr small
2.8 narc sleep
2.8 necr dead
2.8 onc tumor
2.8 path disease
2.8 ped child
2.8 pseud false
2.8 psych mind
2.8 py pus
2.8 pyr fever, heat
2.8 seps, sept, septic infection
2.8 sten narrowed
2.8 tom section
2.8 therm heat
2.9 a-,an- w/o
ab- away, from
ad- toward
amb- walk
ambi- both
ante- b/f
anti- against
bi- 2, twice, 2x
brady- slow
circum- around
contra- against
de- down
dis- away from
dys- painful, abnormal
endo- w/in, inside
epi- above, on
eu- normal, good
ex-, extra- outside of
fore- in front of
hemi- half
hyper- above, excessive, increased
hypo- below, decreased
infra- beneath
inter- btwn, among
juxta- next to, near by
mal- bad
mega- big, exceptionally large
meso- middle
meta- over, beyond
mono- 1
multi- many
neo- new
nulli- none
olig- less than normal
peri- around
poly- many
post- after, behind
pre-, pro- before, in front of
presby- older age
primi- first
quadri- four
retro- behind, in back of
sub- under
super-, supra- above-, excess
sym-, syn- together, with
tachy- fast
trans- across
tri- three
ultra- beyond, excess
uni- one
-age related to
-cidal capable of killing
-form shape
-fuge driving away
-icial pertaining to
ion process
-opia vison
-phylaxis protection, prevention
-pnea breathing
-uria urine
-algia pain
-asthenia weakness
-dysnia pain
-emesis vomiting
-emia blood in
-ia, -ism condition
-aisis presence of, formation of
-itis inflammation
-malacia weakening of, softening of
-mania abnormal desire for
-megaly enlargement
-oma tumor
-osis abnormal state
-pathy disorder, disease
-paresis paralysis
-penia deficiency, decrease
-phagia eating, swallowing
-phobia fear, fear of
-plasia formation of
-plegia paralysis
-ptosis drooping, falling
-rrhage excessive flow
-rrhea flow, disharge
-centesis surgical procedure
-cise cut, removal
-ectomy removal, excision
-gram; -graph, -graphy record of, picture of
-lysis removal, freeing from, disintegrating
-ostomy forming an opening
-otomy cutting into
-plasty surgical repair, reformation
-scopy instrumental view of
-stasis stopping or controlling
-tomy incision
-tripsy crushing
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