Chapter 4 - prefixes Flashcards
cibo
meals
carpo
wrist bone
ciso
to cut
costo
rib
cutaneo
skin
dactylo
fingers, toes
ducto
to lead, carry
flexo
to bend
furco
forking, branching
glosso
tongue
glyco
sugar
immuno
protection
morpho
shape, form
morto
death
nati
birth
necto
to bind, tie, connect
normo
rule, order
oxo
oxygen
pubo
pubis
sepso
infection
somno
sleep
sono
sound
theo
to put, place
thelo, thelio
nipple
thyro
thyroid gland
topo
place, position, location
toxo
poison
thacheo
windpipe, trachea
urethro
urethra
blast
embryonic, immature
-crine
to secrete
-drome
to run
-fusion
coming together, to pour
-gen
substance that produces
-lapse
to slide, fall, sag
-lysis
breakdown, destruction, separation
-meter
to measure
-mission
to send
-or
one who
-oxia
oxygen
-partum
birth, labor
-phoria
to bear, carry, feeling
-physis
to grow
-plasia
development, growth, formation
plasm
structure or formation
-pnea
breathing
-ptosis
falling, dropping, prolapse
rrhea
flow, discharge
-stasis
stopping, controlling
-trophy
development, nourishment
ad
towards
ana
up, appart
ante
before
auto
self, own
brady
slow
cata
down
con
with, together
contra
against
eu
good, normal
ex
out, outside, away from
in
not
in-
into, within
infra
beneath, under
inter
between
mal
bad
meta
beyond, change
pan
all
para
abnormal, beside, near
per
through
peri
surrounding