Chapter 4 Prefixes
Terms
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- carp/o
- writst bones
- cib/o
- meals
- cost/o
- rib
- cutane/o
- skin
- dactyl/o
- fingers, toes
- duct/o
- to lead, carry
- flex/o
- to bend
- furc/o
- forking, branching
- gloss
- tongue
- glyc/o
- sugar
- immun/o
- protection
- morph
- shape, form
- mort/o
- death
- nat/i
- birth
- cis/o
- to cut
- nect/o
- to bind, tie, connect
- norm/o
- rule, order
- ox/o
- oxygen
- pub/o
- pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone
- seps/o
- infection
- somn/o
- sleep
- son/o
- sound
- the/o
- to put, place
- thel/o
- nipple
- thyr/o
- shield; the shape of the thyroid gland resembles a shield
- top/o
- place, position, location
- tox/o
- poison
- trache/o
- trachea, windpipe
- urethr/o
- urethra
- -blast
- embryonic, immature
- -cyesis
- pregnancy
- -drome
- to run
- -fusion
- coming together; to pour
- -gen
- producing, forming
- -lapse
- to slide, fall, sag
- -lysis
- breakdown, separation, loosening
- -meter
- to measure
- -mission
- to send
- -or
- one who
- -partum
- birth, labor
- -phoria
-
to bear, carry;
feeling (mental state) - -physis
- to grow
- -plasia
- development, formation
- -plasm
- development, formation
- -pnea
- breathing
- -ptosis
- droop, sag, prolapse
- -rrhea
- flow, discharge
- -stasis
- stop, control; place
- -trophy
- nourishment, development
- a-, an-
- no, not, without
- ab-
- away from
- ad-
- toward
- ana-
- up, apart
- ante-
- before, forward
- anti-
- against
- auto-
- self, down
- bi-
- two
- brady-
- slow
- cata-
- down
- con-
- with, together
- contra-
- against, opposite
- de-
- down, lack of
- dia-
- through, complete
- dys-
- bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
- ec-, ecto-
- out, outside
- en-, endo-
- in, within
- epi-
- upon, on, above
- eu-
- good, normal
- ex-
- out, away from
- hemi-
- half
- hyper-
- excessive, above
- hypo-
- deficient, under
- in-
- into, within
- infra-
- beneth
- inter-
- between
- intra-
- into, within
- 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
- pseudo-
- false
- 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
- abductor
- a muscle that draws a limb AWAY from the body
- adductor
- a muscle that draws a limb TOWARD the body
- adrenal glands
- pertaining to toward the kidney (adrenal glands are located above each kidney)
- anabolism
- building up complex material
- analysis
- breaking apart
- anoxia
- pertaining to without oxygen
- ante cibum
- before meals
- anteflexion
- process of bending forward
- antepartum
- before birth
- antibiotic
- destroys or inhibits bacterial growth
- antibody
- what our body produces to fight disease
- antigen
- a substance that produces antibodies
- antisepsis
- a condition against infection
- antitoxin
- acts against a toxin in the body
- apnea
- not breathing
- autoimmune
-
self protection
(the body makes antibodies against its own good cells and tissues causing inflammation and injury - benign
- not cancerous
- bifurcation
- branching into two
- bilateral
- pertaining to two sides
- bradycardia
- slow heart
- congenital anomaly
- an irregularity that an infant is born with
- connective tissue
- supports and binds together
- contraindication
- against an indication
- contralateral
- opposite sides
- dehydration
- lack of water
- dialysis
- complete seperation
- diameter
- measure complete, through
- diarrhea
- complete discharge
- dysplasia
-
formation that is abnormal
(ectopic pregnancy) - dyspnea
- difficult breathing
- ectopic pregnancy
- pertaining to outside the location (the embryo implants outside the uterus)
- endocardium
- structure within the heart
- endoscope
- instrument to view within
- endotracheal
- pertaining to within the trachea
- epithelium
- skin cell
- euphoria
- exaggered feeling of well-being
- euthyroid
- normal functioning thyroid
- exophthalmos
- protusion of the eyeball
- hemiglossectomy
- removal of half the tongue
- hyperglycemia
- excessive sugar in the blood
- hyperplasia
- increase in number of cells
- hypertrophy
- increase in the size of each cells
- hypodermic injection
- an injection under the skin
- hypoglycemia
- deficiency of sugar in the blood
- infracostal
- pertaining to below the ribs
- insomniac
- unable to sleep
- intercostal
- between the ribs
- intravenous
- into the vein
- macrocephaly
- large head
- malaise
- vague feeling of discomfort
- malignant
- very bad condition
- metacarpal bones
- bones located beyond the wrist
- metamorphosis
- change in shape and form
- metastasis
- cancerous tumor that has spread beyond its original site
- microscope
- instrument for viewing small things
- neonatal
- new birth (1st 28 days)
- neoplasm
- new formation, development
- pancytopenia
- defeciency of all cells
- paralysis
- abnormal breakdown
- parathyroid glands
- four endocrine glands located on the dorsal side of the thyroid
- percutaneous
- structure through the skin
- periosteum
- tissue surrounding the bones
- polymorphonuclear
- nucleus that is multi shaped
- polyneuritis
- inflammation of many nerves
- postmortem
- after death
- postpartum
- after birth
- precancerous
- before cancer
- prenatal
- before birth
- prodrome
- before onset of actual illness (ie: migraines before illness)
- prolapse
- sag forward
- pseudocyesis
- false pregnancy
- recombinant DNA
- a technique used to manufacture outside the body
- relapse
- disease or symptoms that return
- remission
- symptoms go away but you still have the disease
- retroflexion
- abnormal position of an organ
- retroperitoneal
-
pertaining to behind the peritoneal
(peritoneum: membrane surrounding the organs in the abdomen) - subcutaneous
- under the skin
- suprapubic
-
above the pubis
(pubis is one of a pair of pubic bones that forms the anterior part of the pelvic (hip) bone) - symbiosis
- two organisms living together in close associatin
- symmetry
- equality of parts on opposite sides of the body
- symphysis
-
growing together
(a joint in which the bony surfaces are firmly united by a layer of fibrocartilage) - syndactyly
- webbed fingers and toes
- syndrome
- a group of signs or symptoms that commonly occur together and indicte a particular disease or abnormal condition
- synthesis
- putting together or formation of
- tachypnea
- fast breathing
- transfusion
- transfer of blood or blood parts from one person to another
- transurethral
-
pertaining to through the urethra
(urethra tube goes from the urinary bladder to the outside of the body) - ultrasonography
- process of recording by using ultrasound waves to procuce an image of an organ
- unilateral
- pertaining to one side