Chapter 4 Prefixes - Terminology Flashcards by Jaci Colbert

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Carp/o

A

Wrist bones

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Cis/o

A

To cut

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Cost/o

A

Rib

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Cutane/o

A

Skin

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Dactyl/o

A

Fingers, toes

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Duct/o

A

Lead, carry

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Flex/o

A

Bend

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Furc/o

A

Branching

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Gloss/o

A

Tongue

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Glyc/o

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Sugar

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Immun/o

A

Protection

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Morph/o

A

Shape, form

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Mort/o

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Death

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Nat/i

A

Birth

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Norm/o

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Rule, order

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Ox/o

A

Oxygen

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Pub/o

A

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

A

Nipple

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Thyr/o

A

Thyroid gland

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Top/o

Place, position, location

Tox/o

Poison

Trache/o

Windpipe, trachea

Urethr/o

Urethra

-crine

To secrete

-drome

Run

-fusion

Coming together; to pour

-gen

Substance that produces

-lapse

Slide, fall, sag

-lysis

Breakdown, destruction, separation

-meter

Measure

-mission

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

-rrhea

Flow, discharge

-stasis

Stopping, controlling

-trophy

Development, nourishment

a-, an-

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

epi-

Upon, on, above

eu-

Good, normal

ex-

Out, outside

hemi-

Half

hyper-

Excessive, above

hypo-

Deficient, under

in-

Not

in-

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

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

ultra-

Beyond, excess

uni-

One