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Medical prefix p-z
Medical prefixes and suffixes for massage P-Z
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| beside, near: parathyroid | para- |
| disease: pathology | patho- |
| lack of: leukopenia | -penia |
| around: pericardium | peri- |
| paralysis: hemiplegia | -plegia |
| breathing: pneumothorax | pneumo- |
| foot: podiatrist, bipedal | pod-,ped- |
| formation: hemopoiesis | -poiesis |
| many: polyuria | poly- |
| before: premature | pre- |
| mind: psychology | psycho- |
| four: quadriceps | quadri- |
| straighten: rectus abdominis | rect- |
| kidney: renal | reno- |
| behind: retroperitoneal | retro- |
| half: semilunar | semi- |
| process: stenosis | -sis |
| body: psychosomatic | somato- |
| narrowing: stenosis | steno- |
| under: subdural hematoma | sub- |
| above: supraspinatus | super-,supra- |
| together: synergistic | syn- |
| fast: tachycardia | tachy- |
| heat: hypothermia | thermo- |
| chest: thoracic vertebrae | thoraco- |
| clot: thrombocyte | thrombo- |
| across: transverse | trans- |
| three: triceps | tri- |
| growth: hypertrophy | -trophy |
| one: unilateral | uni- |
| urine: dysuria | -uria,-uro |
| vessel: vasoconstriction | vaso- |
| organ: viscerotropic | viscero- |