Chapter 4 Prefixes Flashcards by Amaya Barajass

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Carp/o

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Wrist bones

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Cis/o

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Cut

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Cost/o

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Rib

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Cutane/o

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Skin

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Dactyl/o

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Fingers, toes

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Duct/o

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Lead, carry

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Flex/o

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Bend

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Furc/o

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Branching

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Gloss/o

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Tongue

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Glyc/o

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Sugar

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Immun/o

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Protection

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Morph/o

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Shape, form

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Mort/o

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Death

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Nat/i

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Birth

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Norm/o

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Rule, order

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Ox/o

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Oxygen

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Pub/o

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Pubis

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Seps/o

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Infection

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Somn/o

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Sleep

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Son/o

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Sound

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Tens/o

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Force, strain, stretch

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The/o

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Put, place

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Thel/o, theli/o

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Nipple

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Thyr/o

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Thyroid gland; shield

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Top/o

Place, position, location

Tox/o

Poison

Trache/o

Windpipe, trachea

Urethr/o

Urethra

-crine

Secrete

-drome

Run

-fusion

Coming together; to pour

-gen

Substance the produces

-lapse

Slide, fall, sag

-lysis

Breakdown, destruction, separation

-meter

Measure

-mission

To send

-or

One who

-oxia

Oxygen

-partum

Birth, labor

-phoria

Bear, carry; feeling (mental state)

-physis

Grow

-plasia

Development, formation, growth

-plasm

Structure or formation

-pnea

Breathing

-ptom

Happening, occurrence

-ptosis

Falling, drooping, prolapse

-stasis

Stopping, controlling

-trophy

Development

a-

No,not, without

ab-

away from

ad-

Toward

ana-

Up, apart

Ante-

Before, forward

Anti-

Against

auto-

Self, own

Bi-

Two

Brady-

Slow

Cata-

Down

Con-

With, together

Contra-

Against, opposite

De-

Down, lack of

Dia-

Through, complete

Dys-

Abnormal, bad difficult, painful

Ec-

Out, outside

endo-

In, within

Eu-

Good, normal

Hemi-

Half

Hyper-

Excessive, above

Sign (Pertaining to signs and symptoms)

an objective finding that is perceived by an examiner (Ex. Fever, rash, hyperglycemia)

Symptoms

a subjective change in condition as perceived by the patient (Ex. Loss of appetite, fatigue, abdominal pain)

In-

Not

in-

Into, within

Infra-

Beneath, under

Inter-

Between

Macro-

Large

Intra-

In, within, into

Macro-

Large

Mal-

Bad

micro-

Small

pan-

All

Para-

Abnormal

Per-

Through

Peri-

Surrounding

Poly-

Many, much

Post-

After, behind

Pre-

Before, In front of

Pro-

Before, forward

Pros-

Before, forward

Re-

Back, again

Retro-

Behind, backward

Sub-

Under

Supra-

Above, upper

Syn-, -sym

Together, with

Tachy-

Fast

Trans-

Across, through

Uni-

One

Ultra-

Beyond, excess