Chapter 4: Prefixes Flashcards
carp/o
wrist bone
cis/o
to cut
cost/o
rib
cutane/o
skin
dactyl/o
fingers, toes
duct/o
to lead, carry
flex/o
to bend
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 (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 gland, 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
trachea, windpipe
urethr/o
urethra
-blast
embryonic, immature (always cancerous)
-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
(instrument) to measure
-mission
to send
-or
one who
-oxia
oxygen
-partum
birth, labor
-phoria
bear, carry, feeling (mental state)
-physis
to grow
-plasia
development, formation, growth
-plasm
formation or structure
-pnea
breath, breathing
-ptosis
drooping, falling, prolapse
-rrhea
flow, discharge
-stasis
controlling, stopping
-trophy
development, nourishment
a-
an-
no, not, without
ab-
away from
ad-
toward
ana-
up, apart
ante-
before, forward
anti-
against
auto-
self
bi-
two
brady-
slow
cata-
down
con-
with, together
contra-
against, opposite
de-
down, lack of
dia-
complete, through
dys-
bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
ec-
out, outside
endo-
within
epi-
above, upon, on
eu-
good, normal
ex-
out, outside of, outward
hemi-
half
hyper-
excessive, above, more than normal
hypo-
deficient, below, under, less than normal
in-
into, in (not)
infra-
beneath, under
inter-
between
intra-
within
macro-
large
mal-
bad
meta-
beyond, change
micro-
small
neo-
new
pan-
all
para-
abnormal, beside, near
per-
through
peri-
surrounding, around
poly-
many, much
post-
after, behind
pre-
before, in front of
pro-
before, forward
pros-
before, forward
re-
back, backward, again
retro-
behind, back, backward
sub-
below, under
supra-
above, upper
syn-
sym-
together, with
tachy-
fast
trans-
across, through
ultra-
beyond, excess
uni-
one