Chapter 4 - Prefixes Flashcards

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Ab-

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Away from

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A-, an-

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No, not, without

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Ad-

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Toward

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Ana-

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Up, apart

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Ante-

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Before, forward

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Anti-

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Against

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Auto-

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Self, own

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Bi-

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Two

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Brady-

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Slow

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Cata-

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Down

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Con-

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With, together

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Contra-

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Against, opposite

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De-

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Down, lack of

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Dia-

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Through, complete

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Dys-

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Bad, painful, difficult, abnormal

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Ec-, ecto-

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Out, outside

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Endo-

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In, within

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Epi-

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Upon, on, above

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Eu-

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Good, normal

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Ex-

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Out, outside, away from

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Hemi-

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Half

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Hyper-

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Excessive, above

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Hypo-

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Deficient, under

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In-

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Not, into, within

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Infra-

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Beneath, under

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Inter-

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Between

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Intra-

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In, within, into

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Macro-

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Large

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Mal-

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Bad

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Meta-

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Beyond, change

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Micro-

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Small

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Neo-

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New

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Pan-

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All

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Para-

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Abnormal, beside, near

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Per-

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Through

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Peri-

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Surrounding

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Poly-

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Many, much

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Post-

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After, behind

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Pre-

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Before, in front of

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Pre-

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Before, forward

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Describe prodromal

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Signs and symptoms (rash, fever) appear before the actual illness (chickenpox) and signal its onset. Altered mood, fatigue, flashes of light, or stuff muscles may occur before the actual headache.

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Pros-

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Before, forward

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Re-

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Back, again

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Retro-

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Behind, backward

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Sub-

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Under

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Supra-

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Above, upper

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Syn-, sym-

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Together, with

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Tachy-

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Fast

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Trans-

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Across, through

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Ultra-

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Beyond, excess

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Uni-

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One