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
Q
-physis
A
to grow
26
Q
-plasia
A
development, formation, growth
27
Q
-plasm
A
structure or formation
28
Q
-pnea
A
breathing
