Prefixes and Suffixes in Anatomical and Medical Terminology
Terms
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- a-
- absent, deficient, lack of
- ab-
- off, away from
- abdomin-
- relating to the abdomen
- -able
- capable of
- ac-
- toward, to
- acou-
- hear
- ad-
- toward, to
- af-
- movement toward a central point
- alb-
- white
- -algia
- pain
- ambi-
- both
- angi-
- pertaining to vessels
- ante-
- before, in front of
- anti-
- against
- aque-
- water
- arch-
- beginning, origin
- arthr-
- joint
- -asis
- condition or state of
- aud-
- hearing, sound
- auto-
- self
- bi-
- two
- bio-
- life
- blast-
- generative or germ bud
- brachi-
- arm
- brachy-
- short
- brady-
- slow
- bucc-
- cheek
- cac-
- bad, ill
- calc-
- stone
- capit-
- head
- carcin-
- cancer
- cardi-
- heart
- cata-
- lower, under, against
- caud-
- tail
- cephal-
- head
- cerebro-
- brain
- chol-
- bile
- chondr-
- cartilage
- chrom-
- color
- -cide
- destroy
- circum-
- around
- co-
- together
- coel-
- hollow cavity
- -coele
- swelling, an enlarged space or cavity
- con-
- with, together
- contra-
- against, opposite
- corn-
- denoting hardness
- corp-
- body
- crypt-
- hidden
- cyan-
- blue
- cyst-
- sac or bladder
- cyto-
- cell
- de-
- down, from
- derm-
- skin
- di-
- two
- dipl-
- double
- dis-
- apart, away from
- duct-
- lead, conduct
- dur-
- hard
- dys-
- bad, difficult, painful
- e-
- out, from
- ec-
- outside, outer, external
- -ectomy
- surgical removal
- ede-
- swelling
- -emia
- pertaining to a condition of the blood
- en-
- within
- enter-
- intestine
- epi-
- upon, over
- erythro-
- red
- ex-
- out of
- exo-
- outside
- extra-
- outside of, beyond, in addition
- fasci-
- band
- febr-
- fever
- -ferent
- bear, carry
- fiss-
- split
- for-
- opening
- -form
- shape
- gastro-
- relating to the stomach
- -gen
- an agent that produces or orginiates
- -genic
- produced from, producing
- gloss-
- tongue
- glyco-
- sugar
- -gram
- a record, recording
- gran-
- grain, particle
- -graph
- instrument for recording
- gravi-
- heavy
- gyn-
- female sex
- haplo-
- simple or single
- hem(at)
- blood
- hemi-
- half
- hepat-
- liver
- hetero-
- other, different
- histo-
- web, tissue
- holo-
- whole, entire
- homo-
- same, alike
- hydro-
- water
- hyper-
- beyond, above, excessive
- hypo-
- under, below
- -ia
- abnormal state or condition
- -iatrics
- medical specialties
- idio-
- self, seperate
- ilio-
- ilium
- infra-
- beneath
- inter-
- among, between
- intra-
- inside, within
- -ion
- process
- -ism
- condition or state
- iso-
- equal, like
- -itis
- inflammation
- labi-
- lip
- lacri-
- tears
- later-
- side
- leuk-
- white
- lip-
- fat
- -logy
- science of
- -lysis
- solution, dissolve
- macro-
- large, great
- mal-
- bad, abnormal, disorder
- medi-
- middle
- mega-
- great, large
- meso-
- middle or moderate
- meta-
- after, beyond
- micro-
- small
- mito-
- thread
- mono-
- alone, one, single
- morph-
- form, shape
- multi-
- many, much
- myo-
- muscle
- narc-
- numness, stupor
- necro-
- corpse
- neo-
- new
- nephr
- kidney
- neuro-
- nerve
- noto-
- back
- ob-
- against, toward, in front of
- oc-
- against
- -oid
- resembling, likeness
- oligo-
- few, small
- -oma
- tumor
- oo-
- egg
- or-
- mouth
- orchi-
- testis
- ortho-
- straight, normal
- -ory
- pertaining to
- -ose
- full of
- osteo-
- bone
- oto-
- ear
- ovo-
- egg
- par-
- give birth to, bear
- para-
- near, beyond, beside
- path-
- disease, that which undergoes sickness
- ped-
- children
- pen-
- need, lack
- -penia
- deficiency
- per-
- through
- peri-
- near, around
- phag-
- to eat
- -phil
- have an affinity for
- phleb-
- vein
- -phobia
- abnormal fear, dread
- -plasty
- reconstruction of
- platy-
- flat, side
- -plegia
- stroke, paralysis
- -pnea
- to breath
- -pneumo(n)-
- lung
- pod-
- foot
- -poiesis
- formation of
- poly-
- many, much
- post-
- after, behind
- pre-
- before in time or place
- pro-
- before in time or place
- proct-
- anus
- pseudo-
- false
- psycho-
- mental
- pyo-
- pus
- quad-
- fourfold
- re-
- back, again
- rect-
- straight
- ren-
- kidney
- rete-
- network
- retro-
- backward, behind
- rhin-
- nose
- -rrhagia
- excessive flow
- -rrhea
- flow or discharge
- sanguin-
- blood
- sarc-
- flesh
- -scope
- instrument for examining a part
- -sect
- cut
- semi-
- half
- -sis
- process or action
- steno-
- narrow
- -stomy
- surgical opening
- sub-
- under, beneath, below
- super-
- above, beyond, upper
- supra-
- above, over
- syn- (sym-)
- together, joined, with
- tachy-
- swift, rapid
- tele-
- far
- tens-
- stretch
- tetra-
- four
- therm-
- heat
- thorac-
- chest
- thrombo-
- lump, clot
- -tomy
- cut
- tox-
- poison
- tract-
- draw, drag
- trans-
- across, over
- tri-
- three
- trich-
- hair
- -trophy
- a state relating to nutrition
- ultra-
- beyond, excess
- uni-
- one
- -uria
- urine
- uro-
- urine, urinary organs or tract
- vas-
- vessel
- viscer-
- organ
- vit-
- life
- zoo-
- animal
- zygo-
- union, join