Chapter 4 Prefixes Flashcards
Carp/o
Wrist bones
Cis/o
Cut
Cost/o
Rib
Cutane/o
Skin
Dactyl/o
Fingers, toes
Duct/o
Lead, carry
Flex/o
Bend
Furc/o
Branching
Gloss/o
Tongue
Glyc/o
Sugar
Immun/o
Protection
Morph/o
Shape, form
Mort/o
Death
Nat/i
Birth
Norm/o
Rule, order
Ox/o
Oxygen
Pub/o
Pubis
Seps/o
Infection
Somn/o
Sleep
Son/o
Sound
Tens/o
Force, strain, stretch
The/o
Put, place
Thel/o, theli/o
Nipple
Thyr/o
Thyroid gland; shield
Top/o
Place, position, location
Tox/o
Poison
Trache/o
Windpipe, trachea
Urethr/o
Urethra
-crine
Secrete
-drome
Run
-fusion
Coming together; to pour
-gen
Substance the produces
-lapse
Slide, fall, sag
-lysis
Breakdown, destruction, separation
-meter
Measure
-mission
To send
-or
One who
-oxia
Oxygen
-partum
Birth, labor
-phoria
Bear, carry; feeling (mental state)
-physis
Grow
-plasia
Development, formation, growth
-plasm
Structure or formation
-pnea
Breathing
-ptom
Happening, occurrence
-ptosis
Falling, drooping, prolapse
-stasis
Stopping, controlling
-trophy
Development
a-
No,not, without
ab-
away from
ad-
Toward
ana-
Up, apart
Ante-
Before, forward
Anti-
Against
auto-
Self, own
Bi-
Two
Brady-
Slow
Cata-
Down
Con-
With, together
Contra-
Against, opposite
De-
Down, lack of
Dia-
Through, complete
Dys-
Abnormal, bad difficult, painful
Ec-
Out, outside
endo-
In, within
Eu-
Good, normal
Hemi-
Half
Hyper-
Excessive, above
Sign
(Pertaining to signs and symptoms)
an objective finding that is perceived by an examiner
(Ex. Fever, rash, hyperglycemia)
Symptoms
a subjective change in condition as perceived by the patient
(Ex. Loss of appetite, fatigue, abdominal pain)
In-
Not
in-
Into, within
Infra-
Beneath, under
Inter-
Between
Macro-
Large
Intra-
In, within, into
Macro-
Large
Mal-
Bad
micro-
Small
pan-
All
Para-
Abnormal
Per-
Through
Peri-
Surrounding
Poly-
Many, much
Post-
After, behind
Pre-
Before, In front of
Pro-
Before, forward
Pros-
Before, forward
Re-
Back, again
Retro-
Behind, backward
Sub-
Under
Supra-
Above, upper
Syn-, -sym
Together, with
Tachy-
Fast
Trans-
Across, through
Uni-
One
Ultra-
Beyond, excess