Ch. 4 Prefixes Flashcards by deby huynh

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Carp/o

A

wrist

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Cost/o

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rib

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Cutane/o

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skin

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Dactyl/o

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fingers, toes

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Duct/o

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to lead, carry

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Flex/o

A

to bend

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Gloss/o

A

tongue

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Nat/i

A

birth

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Norm/o

A

rule, order

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Pub/o

A

pubic bone

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Seps/o

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infection

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Somn/o

A

sleep

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The/o

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to put, place

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Thel/o; theli/o

A

nipple

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Top/o

A

place, position, location

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-blast

A

immature

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-crine

A

to secrete

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-drome

A

to run

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-fusion

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coming together; to pour

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-gen

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substance the produces

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-lapse

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to slide, lag, fall

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-mission

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to send

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-partum

A

birth, labour

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-phoria

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feeling; to bear, carry

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-physis

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to grow

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-plasia

A

development, formation, growth

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-plasm

A

structure or formation

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-pnea

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breathing

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-stasis

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controlling, stopping

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-trophy

A

development, nourishment

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Ab-

A

away from

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Ad-

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toward

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Ana-

A

up

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Ante-

A

before, forward

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Anti-

A

against

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Brady-

A

slow

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Cata-

A

down

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Con-

A

with, together

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Contra-

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against, opposite

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De-

A

down, lack of

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Ec-

A

out, outside

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Endo-

A

in, within

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Epi-

A

above, upon, on

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Eu-

A

good, normal

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Ex-

A

out, outside

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In- (insomniac)

A

not

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In- (incision)

A

into, within

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Infra-

A

beneath, under

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Inter-

A

between

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Meta-

A

change, beyond

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Neo-

A

new

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Pan-

A

all

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Para-

A

abnormal, beside, near

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Per-

A

through

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Peri-

A

surrounding

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Post-

A

after, behind

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Pre-

A

before, in front of

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Pros-

A

before, forward

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Pro-

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before, forward

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Retro-

A

behind, backward

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Supra-

A

above, upper

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Syn-; sym-

A

together with

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Syndrome

A

symptoms that occur together

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Symbiosis

A

condition of “life together”

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Symphysis

A

to grow together

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Tachy-

A

fast

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Ultra-

A

beyond, excess

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Antigen

A

foreign substance

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Antibody

A

protein substance produced by our body to fight foreign substances (antigens)

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Bilirubin

A

chemical pigment