Unit 1 suffixes and prefixes

Question 1

a/n-

Answer 1

not

Question 2

anti-

Answer 2

against

Question 3

di/a-

Answer 3

through

Question 4

brady-

Answer 4

slow

Question 5

dys-

Answer 5

bad

Question 6

endo-

Answer 6

inside

Question 7

epi-

Answer 7

on top of

Question 8

hemi-

Answer 8

half

Question 9

hyper-

Answer 9

too much

Question 10

hypo-

Answer 10

too little

Question 11

intra-

Answer 11

inside

Question 12

macro-

Answer 12

large

Question 13

meso-

Answer 13

in the middle

Question 14

micro-

Answer 14

small

Question 15

olig/o-

Answer 15

several; a handful

Question 16

pan-

Answer 16

all; everything or everyone

Question 17

para-

Answer 17

beside; near

Question 18

peri-

Answer 18

around

Question 19

poly-

Answer 19

many; too much

Question 20

tachy-

Answer 20

fast

Question 21

trans-

Answer 21

through

Question 22

-a

Answer 22

no meaning

Question 23

-cele

Answer 23

hernia (something that sticks out when it shouldn’t)

Question 24

-algia
-dynia

Answer 24

pain

Question 25

-ar
-ary
-eal
-al
-iac
-ial
-ic

Answer 25

pertaining to

Question 26

-centesis

Answer 26

puncture

Question 27

-desis

Answer 27

binding together by a disease process

Question 28

-e

Answer 28

no meaning

Question 29

-ectomy

Answer 29

cutting out of

Question 30

-emia

Answer 30

present in blood, indicating disease

Question 31

-esis
-osis

Answer 31

process

Question 32

-etic

Answer 32

a drug or condition causing a process

Question 33

-eum

Answer 33

anatomical structure word ending

Question 34

-gram

Answer 34

a record of a test or procedure

Question 35

-graphy

Answer 35

a test or procedure

Question 36

-hypertrophy

Answer 36

too much growth

Question 37

-ia
-y
(anemia)

Answer 37

disease

Question 38

-iasis

Answer 38

presence of an abnormality

Question 39

-itis

Answer 39

inflammation

Question 40

-ium
-is

Answer 40

anatomical structure word ending

Question 41

-lith

Answer 41

stone

Question 42

-logist

Answer 42

one who studies

Question 43

-logy

Answer 43

study of

Question 44

-lysis

Answer 44

breaking down; destroying

Question 45

-malacia

Answer 45

softening due to disease

Question 46

-megaly

Answer 46

enlargement due to disease

Question 47

-oid

Answer 47

looks like; resembles

Question 48

-oma

Answer 48

tumor

Question 49

-on

Answer 49

unit of anatomical structure

Question 50

-pathy

Answer 50

disease process

Question 51

-penia

Answer 51

low levels of

Question 52

-pexy

Answer 52

surgical fixation

Question 53

-plasty

Answer 53

surgical revision

Question 54

-poiesis

Answer 54

creation process

Question 55

-ptosis

Answer 55

drooping

Question 56

-rrhage

Answer 56

bursting forth

Question 57

-rrhaphy

Answer 57

suturing

Question 58

-rrhea
(flows)

Answer 58

abnormal flow

Question 59

-rrhexis
(rreck a sac)

Answer 59

rupture

Question 60

-scler

Answer 60

hardening

Question 61

-scope
(does what)

Answer 61

instrument for looking inside

Question 62

-scopy
(using a…)

Answer 62

the process of looking inside

Question 63

-spasm

Answer 63

involuntary contraction

Question 64

-stomy
(not a cut or a hole made under anesthesia)

Answer 64

creating an opening with surgery

Question 65

-tomy
(stomy minus the process)

Answer 65

cutting

Question 66

-trophy
(hypertrophy)

Answer 66

nourishment, growth

Question 67

-uria
(indicates?)

Answer 67

present in urine, indicating disease