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med term Susanna
suffixes and prefixes--medical
Question | Answer |
---|---|
inter | between, among |
pre- | before |
malacia | abnormal softening |
brady- | slow |
sub- | below |
-ectomy | surgical removal |
hyper- | excessive, increased |
-emia | blood, blood condition |
-necrosis | tissue death |
post- | after |
-cyte | cell |
-itis | inflammation |
super-, supra- | above, excessive |
-ectasis | stretching, enlargement |
-megaly | enlargement |
tachy- | fast. rapid |
intra- | within, inside |
-lysis | breakdown, separation, setting free,destruction, loosening |
-desis | surgical fixation of bone or joint, to bind, tie together |
hemi- | half |
dys- | bad, difficult, painful |
ante- | before, toward |
neo- | new, strange |
poly- | many |
peri- | surrounding, around |
per- | excessive, through |
anti- | against, counter |