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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 |