Chapter 4 Prefixes Flashcards
Cib/o
Meals
Cis/o
To cut
Cost/o
Rib
Cutane/o
Skin
Dactyl/o
Fingers/toes
Duct/o
To lead, carry
Flex/o
To bend
Furc/o
Forking, branching
Gloss/o
Tongue
Glyc/o
Sugar
Immun/o
Protection
Morph/o
Shape/form
Mort/o
Death
Nat/i
Birth
Nect/o
To bind, tie, connect
Norm/o
Rule,order
Ox/o
Oxygen
Pub/o
Pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone
Seps/o
Infection
Somn/o
Sleep
Son/o
Sound
The/o
To put, place
Thel/o, theli/o
Nipple
Thyr/o
Thyroid glad; shield (the shape of the thyroid gland resembled [oid] a shield to those who named it.
Top/o
Place, position, location
Tox/o
Poison
Trache/o
Windpipe, trachea
Urethr/o
Urethra
-blast
Embryonic, immature
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-crine
To secrete
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-drome
To run
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-fusion
Coming together; to pour
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-gen
Substance that produces
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-lapse
To slide, fall, sag
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-lysis
Breakdown, destruction, separation
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-meter
To measure
-mission
To send
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-or
One who
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-oxia
Oxygen
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-partum
Birth, labor
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Phoria
To bear, carry; feeling (mental state)
-physics
To grow
-plasia
Development, formation, growth
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-plasm
Structure or formation
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-pnea
Breathing
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-ptosis
Falling, drooping, prolapse
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-rrhea
Flow, discharge
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-stasis
Stopping, controlling
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-trophy
Development, nourishment
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-a,-an
No,not,without
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Ab-
Away from
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Ad-
Toward
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Ana-
Us,apart
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Ante-
Before, forward
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Anti-
Against
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-auto-
Self, own
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Bi-
Two
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Brady-
Slow
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Cata-
Down
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Con-
With, together
Contra-
Against, opposite
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De-
Down, lack of
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Dia-
Through, complete
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Dys-
Bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
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Ex-, ecto-
Out, outside
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Endo-
In,within
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Epi-
Upon, on, above
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Eu-
Good, normal
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Ex-
Out, outside, away from
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Hemi-
Half
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Hyper-
Excessive above
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Hypo-
Deficient, under
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In-
Not, into, within
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Infra-
Beneath, under
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Inter
Between
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Carp/o
Wrist bones
Intra-
In,within,into
Macro-
Large
Mal-
Bad
Meta-
Beyond, change
Micro-
Small
Neo-
New
Pan-
All
Para-
Abnormal, beside, near
Per-
Through
Peri-
Surrounding
Poly-
Many, much
Post-
After, behind
Pre-
Before, in front of
Pro-, pros-
Before, forward
Re-
Back, again
Retro-
Behind, backward
Sub-
Under
Supra-
Above, upper
Syn-, sym-
Together, with
Tachy-
Fast
Trans-
Across, through
Ultra-
Beyond, excess
Uni-
One