Chapter 4 - PREFIXES Flashcards
carp/o
wristbones
cost/o
rib
cutane/o
skin
dactyl/o
fingers, toes
duct/o
to lead, carry
flex/o
to bend
gloss/o
tounge
immun/o
protection
mort/o
death
nat/i
birth
norm/o
rule, order
ox/o
oxygen
pub/o
pubis; another portion of the pelvic or hipbone
seps/o
infection
somn/o
sleep
son/o
sound
the/o
to put, place
thyr/o
thyroid gland, shield
top/o
place, position, location
tox/o
poison
-blast
embryonic, imature
-drome
to run
-fusion
coming together; to pour
-gea
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, labour
-phoria
to bear, carry, feeling
-physis
to grow
-plasia
development, formation, growth
-plasm
structure or formation
-pnea
breathing
-ptosis
falling, drooping, prolapse
-rrea
flow, discharge
-stasis
stopping, controlling
-trophy
development, nourishment
ab-
away from
ad-
toward
ana-
up, apart
ante-
before, forward
bi-
two
brady-
slow
cata-
down
con-
with, together
contra-
against, opposite
de-
down, lack of
dia-
through, complete
dys-
bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
ec-
out, outside
eu-
good, normal
ex-
out, outside
hemi-
half
in-
not, into, within
infra-
beneath, under
inter-
between
intra-
in, within, into
macro-
large
mal-
bad
meta-
beyond, change
micro-
small
neo-
new
pan-
all
para-
abnormal, beside, near
per-
through
post-
after, behind
pre-
before, in front of
pro-
before, forward
pros-
before, forward
sub-
under
supra-
above, upper
syn-, sym-
together, with
tachy-
fast
ultra-
beyond, excess
uni-
one