Ch. 4 Prefixes Flashcards
1
Q
Carp/o
A
wrist
2
Q
Cost/o
A
rib
3
Q
Cutane/o
A
skin
4
Q
Dactyl/o
A
fingers, toes
5
Q
Duct/o
A
to lead, carry
6
Q
Flex/o
A
to bend
7
Q
Gloss/o
A
tongue
8
Q
Nat/i
A
birth
9
Q
Norm/o
A
rule, order
10
Q
Pub/o
A
pubic bone
11
Q
Seps/o
A
infection
12
Q
Somn/o
A
sleep
13
Q
The/o
A
to put, place
14
Q
Thel/o; theli/o
A
nipple
15
Q
Top/o
A
place, position, location
16
Q
-blast
A
immature
17
Q
-crine
A
to secrete
18
Q
-drome
A
to run
19
Q
-fusion
A
coming together; to pour
20
Q
-gen
A
substance the produces
21
Q
-lapse
A
to slide, lag, fall
22
Q
-mission
A
to send
23
Q
-partum
A
birth, labour
24
Q
-phoria
A
feeling; to bear, carry
25
-physis
to grow
26
-plasia
development, formation, growth
27
-plasm
structure or formation
28
-pnea
breathing
29
-stasis
controlling, stopping
30
-trophy
development, nourishment
31
Ab-
away from
32
Ad-
toward
33
Ana-
up
34
Ante-
before, forward
35
Anti-
against
36
Brady-
slow
37
Cata-
down
38
Con-
with, together
39
Contra-
against, opposite
40
De-
down, lack of
41
Ec-
out, outside
42
Endo-
in, within
43
Epi-
above, upon, on
44
Eu-
good, normal
45
Ex-
out, outside
46
In- (insomniac)
not
47
In- (incision)
into, within
48
Infra-
beneath, under
49
Inter-
between
50
Meta-
change, beyond
51
Neo-
new
52
Pan-
all
53
Para-
abnormal, beside, near
54
Per-
through
55
Peri-
surrounding
56
Post-
after, behind
57
Pre-
before, in front of
58
Pros-
before, forward
59
Pro-
before, forward
60
Retro-
behind, backward
61
Supra-
above, upper
62
Syn-; sym-
together with
63
Syndrome
symptoms that occur together
64
Symbiosis
condition of "life together"
65
Symphysis
to grow together
66
Tachy-
fast
67
Ultra-
beyond, excess
68
Antigen
foreign substance
69
Antibody
protein substance produced by our body to fight foreign substances (antigens)
70
Bilirubin
chemical pigment
