Common Prefixes, suffixes and combining forms Stedmans Skill Builders
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| ankyl/o | bent, crooked, stiff, fused, fixed, closed
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| auto-, aut- | self, same
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| bio | life
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| -centesis | puncture; surgical puncture to remove fluid
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| circum- | around, circular, circular movement
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| -clasia, -clasis, -clast | break, breaking
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| cry-, cry/o | cold
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| -desis | binding, stabilizing, fixation of a bone or join to, tie together; to bind, tie together
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| -ec | out, away, outside
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| -ectomy | removal of an anatomic structure, literally "to cut out"; excision, resection
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| electr/o | electric, electricity
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| -esthesia, esthes/o, esthesi/o | perception, feeling, sensitivity
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| herni/o | hernia, rupture, protrusion of a part of a structure through the tissues containing it
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| lith-, lith/o | stone, calculus, calcification
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| -lysis | dissolution (loosening)
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| mes, mes/o | middle, mean, intermediacy
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| -opsy;-opia; -opsia | vision, view of(Stedman's has excision or removal of)
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| -ostomy | artificial, nonphysiologic, or surgical opening; literally to "cut a new mouth"
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| -otomy | a cutting operation; literally "to cut into"
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| -pexy | fixation, usually surgical; to put in place
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| -plasty | surgical procedure for repair of a defect or restoration of form and/or function of a part
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| -rrhaphy | surgical suturing
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| -rrhexis | rupture
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| -scope | instrument for viewing, but meaning expanded to include other methods of examination
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| -scopy | action or activity that uses an instrument for viewing
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| -stasis | stop, stand, control; place
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| -stomy | artificial or surgical opening to form a mouth
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| sub- | beneath, below, less than normal or typical, inferior (i.e. worse)
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| sym-, syn- | together, with, joined
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| tom tom/o | to cut
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| -tome | a cutting instrument
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| -tomy | process of cutting, incision, a cutting operation
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| trans- | across, through, beyond
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| -tripsy | to crush, rubbing, crushing
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