CHAPTER 3: POSITION OR DIRECTION (Prefix)

Question 1

away from

Answer 1

ab-

Question 2

toward

Answer 2

ad-

Question 3

before in time or in place

Answer 3

ante-, pre-

Question 4

around

Answer 4

circum-, peri-

Question 5

against or opposed

Answer 5

contra-

Question 6

through

Answer 6

dia-

Question 7

out, without, away from

Answer 7

ecto-, ex-, exo-, extra-

Question 8

inside

Answer 8

en-, end-, endo-

Question 9

above, on

Answer 9

epi-

Question 10

beneath, under

Answer 10

hypo-, infra-, sub-

Question 11

between

Answer 11

inter-

Question 12

same

Answer 12

ipsi-

Question 13

middle

Answer 13

meso-, mid-

Question 14

near, beside, or abnormal

Answer 14

para-

Question 15

through or by

Answer 15

per-

Question 16

after, behind

Answer 16

post-

Question 17

behind, backward

Answer 17

retro-

Question 18

above, beyond

Answer 18

super-, supra

Question 19

joined, together

Answer 19

sym-, syn-

Question 20

across

Answer 20

trans-

Question 21

means to carry away by force or to draw away from a given position.

Answer 21

abduct

Question 22

• now called chemical dependancy.
• one is “drawn toward” a habit-forming drug.
• one has a compulsive physiologic need for a certain drug.

Answer 22

addiction

Question 23

is an outer room that is generally entered before a more important room.

Answer 23

anteroom

Question 24

pertain to the area in front of (literally, “before in place”) the kidney.

Answer 24

prerenal

Question 25

is the outer boundary or the line that is drawn around the outside of an area.

Answer 25

perimeter

Question 26

is the line that is drawn around a circle.

Answer 26

circumference

Question 27

means affecting the opposite side

Answer 27

contralateral

Question 28

passes through the center of the circle

Answer 28

diameter

Question 29

is to carry or send away to another place.

Answer 29

export

Question 30

the skeletons of some animals, such as insects, are on the outer surface and are called…

Answer 30

exoskeleton

Question 31

means outside a nucleus

Answer 31

extranuclear

Question 32

means to close up inside ;something, hold in, or include.

Answer 32

enclose

Question 33

means within the trachea.

Answer 33

endotracheal

Question 34

if often inscribed on the tombstone or above the grave of the person buried there.

Answer 34

epitaph

Question 35

means pertaining to the area below the skin.

Answer 35

hypodermic

Question 36

injection places a small amount of medication below the skin layer into the subcutaneous tissue.

Answer 36

subcutaneous injection

Question 37

is a space of time between events.

Answer 37

interval

Question 38

activities are those within a college engaged in by members of a college

Answer 38

intracollegiate

Question 39

means pertaining to or affecting the same side of the body

Answer 39

ipsilateral

Question 40

is the middle of three tissue layers that form during the development of an embryo.

Answer 40

mesoderm

Question 41

two lines run beside each other

Answer 41

parallel lines

Question 42

is to excrete fluid through the pores of the skin

Answer 42

perspire

Question 43

means allowing certain substance to pass through

Answer 43

perspire

Question 44

is to assign a date to something after the date it actually occurred, such as when one postdates a check.

Answer 44

postdates

Question 45

means lying or occurring behind the nose

Answer 45

postnasal

Question 46

means extending back to a prior time or condition

Answer 46

retroactive

Question 47

means looking backward in time or surveying the past

Answer 47

retrospection

Question 48

means on a or near the surface

Answer 48

superficial

Question 49

pertains to a location above each kidney

Answer 49

suprarenal

Question 50

is a set of symptoms that occur together and collectively characterize a particular disease or condition.

Answer 50

syndrome

Question 51

two organisms of different species beneficially live together

Answer 51

symbiosis

Question 52

is one that can be absorbed through (or across) unbroken skin, such as the nitroglycerin patch to relieve angina pectoris, chest pain caused by heart disease.

Answer 52

transdermal