Suffixes and Prefixes Flashcards
Indication and Prefix: Night
time, noct-
Indication and Prefix: adjoining, near to
place, juxta-
Indication and Prefix: around
other parts, circum-
Indication and Prefix: larg (e)?
size, macro-
Indication and Prefix: different from
type or character, allo-
Indication and Prefix: many
quantity, poly
Indication and Prefix: blue
color, cyan
excessive urination during the
night
nocturia
adjoining or near the
glomerulus
juxtaglomerular
around the cornea
circumcorneal
plastic surgery with non-human tissue
alloplasty
Indication and Suffix: removal
procedure, -ectomy
Indication and Suffix: opening
procedure, -stomy
Indication and Suffix: examination of
procedure, -scopy
Indication and Suffix: disease
diagnosis, -pathy
Indication and Suffix: enlargement of
diagnosis, -megaly
Indication and Suffix: inflammation of
diagnosis, -itis
Indication and Suffix: decrease, lack of
condition or symptom, -penia
Indication and Suffix: vomiting
condition or symptom, -emesis
Indication and Suffix: flowing
condition or symptom, -rrhea
suffixes used to pertain to certain body parts or organ (5)
-al, -ary, ous, eal, or –ic
(hypo + cal + emia)
prefix meaning
low, cal, a root word for calcium, emia, condition of blood.
The term means “low levels of calcium in the blood”
(nephro + lith + omy )
nephro, prefix for
kidney, lith, stone, omy, incision of. The expression means
incision of the kidney for removal of stone
(card + ia)
card-, a root meaning “heart”
-ia, a suffix meaning “a state or condition of”. This
expression means “in the region of the heart”
(co + enzyme)
co means together with
(an + emia)
an-, prefix meaning “without”
-emia, suffix meaning “condition of blood”. It means a
reduction in the number of red blood cells.
give some combination forms
- prefix, root, suffix
- root, prefix, suffix
- root, suffix
- prefix, root
- prefix, suffix
part and meaning: a, an
prefix, without; as avitaminosis
part and meaning: ab
prefix, away from; as abnormal
part and meaning: ad
prefix, near, toward; as adrenal
part and meaning: ana
prefix, upward; anabolism
part and meaning: anti
prefix, against; as antibiotic
part and meaning: auto
prefix, self; as autodigestion
part and meaning: bio
prefix, life; as biology
part and meaning: brady
prefix, slow; bradycardia
part and meaning: calor
prefix, heat; as calorimeter
part and meaning: cata
prefix, downward; as catabolism
part and meaning: chole
prefix, bile, gall; as cholagogue
part and meaning: chroma
prefix, color; as chromatosis
part and meaning: co
prefix, together; coenzyne
part and meaning: de
prefix, down, from, away
part and meaning: demi
prefix, half
part and meaning: di
prefix, two, double; as diplopia
part and meaning: dis
prefix, ill, negative; as disease
part and meaning: dys
prefix, difficult; as dyspepsia
part and meaning: ec
prefix, outside; as ectopic
part and meaning: encephal
prefix, brain; as encephalogram
part and meaning: endo
prefix, inside; as endogenous
part and meaning: epi
prefix, on; as epigastric
part and meaning: exo
prefix, outside; as exogenous
part and meaning: hemi
prefix, half
part and meaning: hemo
prefix, blood; as hemopoiesis
part and meaning: hyper
prefix, excessive; as hyperacid
part and meaning: hypo
prefix, little; as hypofunction
part and meaning: im, in
prefix, not; as immature
part and meaning: inter
prefix, between; as interstitial
part and meaning: intra
prefix, within; as intravascular
part and meaning: meso
prefix, middle; mesomorph
part and meaning: meta
prefix, change; as metaplasia
part and meaning: necro
prefix, dead; necrosis
part and meaning: para
prefix, beside; as paravertibral
part and meaning: peri
prefix, around; as pericardium
part and meaning: poly
prefix, many; polyphagia
part and meaning: post
prefix, after; as postmortem