medical word roots, prefixes, suffixes Flashcards
(136 cards)
1
Q
away from
A
a, ab, abs
2
Q
negative, no, not, without
A
a, an
3
Q
to, toward
A
ad
4
Q
air
A
aer
5
Q
both, on both sides
A
amb-
6
Q
around, on both sides
A
amph
6
Q
before
A
ante-
7
Q
against
A
anti-
8
Q
twice, double
A
bi, bis-
8
Q
short, around
A
brachy-
9
Q
with, together
A
co, col, com, con
10
Q
against, counter
A
contra-
11
Q
two, double
A
di, diplo-
12
Q
through, between
A
dia-
13
Q
negative, separation, apart
A
dis-
14
Q
bad, painful, difficult
A
dys-
15
Q
outside
A
ecto, exo-
16
Q
in, on
A
em, en-
17
Q
inside
A
end-
18
Q
upon, on, above
A
epi-
19
Q
half
A
hemi-
20
Q
other, different
A
hetero-
21
Q
same, similar
A
homeo, homo-
22
Q
beyond, excessive
A
hyper-
23
under, below, deficient
hypo-
24
self, one's own, seperate
idio-
25
beneath
infra-
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among, between
inter-
27
equal, like
iso-
28
large, great
macro-
29
bad, abnormal
mal-
30
middle
med, medi-
31
great, large
mega, megal-
32
small
micro-
33
new
neo-
34
straight, normal
ortho-
35
near, beside, apart from
para-
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through
per-
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around
peri-
38
much, many
poly-
39
after, behind
post-
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before, in front of
pre, pro-
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false
pseud-
42
backward, located behind
retro-
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half
simi-
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under, beneath, below
sub-
45
above/beyond
super-
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above, over
supra-
47
with, together, joined
sym, syn-
48
rapid
tachy-
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across, through, beyond
trans-
50
three
tri-
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capable of, having ability to
-able
52
pertaining to
-ac, -al
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connected
-ary
54
condition or state of
-asis, -asia, -esis, -osis
55
swelling, enlarged, tumor
-cel, -cele
56
cut, kill, destroy
-cid, -cide, -cis
57
condition of blood
-emia
58
carry
-ferent
59
shape
-form
60
state, condition (indicates noun ending)
-ia, -ism
61
indicates an adjective ending, pertaining to
-ia, -ory
62
specialist
-ist
63
inflammation
-itis
64
the study of
-logy, -ology
65
softening
-malacia
66
looks like
-oid
67
tumor
-oma
68
full of
-ose
69
disease
-pathy
70
deficieny
-penia
71
to breathe
-pnea
72
cutting into, incision into
-tomy
73
state relating to nutrition or growth
-trophy
74
fat
adip-
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pain
alg-
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vessel
angi-
77
joint
arthr-
78
self
aut-
79
life, living
bio-
80
arm
brachi-
81
trachea, windpipe
bronch-
82
heart
cari, cardia, cardio-
83
tail
caud-
84
head
cephal=
85
brain
cerebro-
86
cartliage
chondr-
87
skull
crani-
88
cold
cry, cryo-
89
skin
cut-
90
cell
cyt, cyto, cyte-
91
digits
dactyl-
92
skin
derma, demato-
93
back
dors-
94
swell
ede-
95
within
endo-
96
intestine
entero-
97
red
erythero-
98
stomach
gastr-
99
tongue
gloss-
100
female, women
gyn, gyne-
101
blood
hem, hemat-
102
liver
hepar, hepato-
103
tissue
hist-
104
water
hydro-
105
uterus
hyster-
106
ilium
ilio-
107
tears
lachry, lacri-
108
fat
lip-
109
membrane
meningo-
110
shape
morph-
111
spinal cord
myelo-
112
muscle
myo-
113
corpse, death
necr-
114
kidney
nephr-
115
nerve
neur-
116
eye
oculo-
117
tooth
odont-
118
eye
ophthalm-
119
bone
oss, oste-
120
ear
oto-
121
disease
path-
122
child
ped-
123
foot
pod-
124
mind, soul
psych-
125
hard
scler-
126
body
soma- somato-
127
draw, pull
spas-
128
stand still
stasis- stat-
129
treatment
therap-
130
heat
therm-
131
nurture
troph-
132
poison
tox-
133
hair
trich-
134
organ
viscer-
