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Chapter 4--Prefixes

  1. carp/o
    wrist bones
  2. cib/o
    meals
  3. cis/o
    to cut
  4. cost/o
    rib
  5. cutane/o
    skin
  6. dactyl/o
    fingers, toes
  7. duct/o
    to lead, carry
  8. flex/o
    to bend
  9. furc/o
    forking, branching
  10. gloss/o
    tongue
  11. glyc/o
    sugar
  12. immun/o
    protection
  13. morph/o
    shape, form
  14. mort/o
    death
  15. nat/i
    birth
  16. nect/o
    to bind, tie, connect
  17. norm/o
    rule, order
  18. ox/o
    oxygen
  19. pub/o
    pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone
  20. seps/o
    infection
  21. somn/o
    sleep
  22. son/o
    sound
  23. the/o
    to put, place
  24. thel/o
    nipple
  25. theli/o
    nipple
  26. thyr/o
    thyroid gland; shield
  27. top/o
    place, position, location
  28. tox/o
    poison
  29. trache/o
    windpipe, trachea
  30. urether/o
    urethra
  31. -blast
    embryonic, immature
  32. -crine
    to secrete
  33. -drome
    to run
  34. -fusion
    coming together; to pour
  35. -gen
    substance that produces
  36. -lapse
    to slide, fall, sag
  37. -lysis
    breakdown, destruction, separation
  38. -meter
    to measure
  39. -mission
    to send
  40. -or
    one who
  41. -oxia
    oxygen
  42. -partum
    birth, labor
  43. -phoria
    to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)
  44. -physis
    to grow
  45. -plasia
    development, formation, growth
  46. -plasm
    structure or formation
  47. -pnea
    breathing
  48. -ptosis
    falling, drooping, prolapse
  49. -rrhea
    flow, discharge
  50. -stasis
    stopping, controlling
  51. -trophy
    development, nourishment
  52. a-
    no, not, without
  53. an-
    no, not, without
  54. ab-
    away from
  55. ad-
    toward
  56. ana-
    up, apart
  57. ante-
    before, forward
  58. anti-
    against
  59. auto-
    self, own
  60. bi-
    two
  61. brady-
    slow
  62. cata-
    down
  63. con-
    with, together
  64. contra-
    against, opposite
  65. de-
    down, lack of
  66. dia-
    through, complete
  67. dys-
    bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
  68. ec-
    out, outside
  69. ecto-
    out, outside
  70. endo-
    in, within
  71. epi-
    upon, on, above
  72. eu-
    good, normal
  73. ex-
    out, outside, away from
  74. hemi-
    half
  75. hyper-
    excessive, above
  76. hypo-
    deficient, under
  77. in-
    not
  78. in-
    into, within
  79. infra-
    beneath, under
  80. inter-
    between
  81. intra-
    in, within, into
  82. macro-
    large
  83. mal-
    bad
  84. meta-
    beyond, change
  85. micro-
    small
  86. neo-
    new
  87. pan-
    all
  88. para-
    abnormal, beside, near
  89. per-
    through
  90. peri-
    surrounding
  91. poly-
    many, much
  92. post-
    after, behind
  93. pre-
    before, in front of
  94. pro-
    before, forward
  95. pros-
    before, forward
  96. re-
    back, again
  97. retro-
    behind, backward
  98. sub-
    under
  99. supra-
    above, upper
  100. syn-
    together, with
  101. sym-
    together, with
  102. tachy-
    fast
  103. trans-
    trough, across
  104. ultra-
    beyond, excess
  105. uni-
    one
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