Medical Terms with Prefixes & Suffixes

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• Cardi

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• Hepat

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• Neur

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• Gastro

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• Broncho/pulmo

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• Or

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• Nas

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• Pneumo

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• Contra-

• Against

• Brady-

• toward or near

• Ad-

• Away from

• Ante-

• Before

• Ab-

• Slow/below normal

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• Dys

• Difficult or painful

• Hyper

• Above normal, high

• Hypo

• Within, inside

• Inter

• Between

• Intra

• Below normal, low

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• Pre-

• Around

• Sub-

• Before

• Post-

• Below, under

• Poly-

• Many

• Peri-

• After

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• paralysis

• -pnea

• contraction

• -rrhea

• discharge

• -spasm

• one who specializes in

• -plegia

• breathing

• -ist

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• uni-

• Above normal, rapid

• Super/Supra-

• Above or in excess

• Tachy-

• One

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• pain

• -itis

• pertaining to

• -emesis

• inflammation

• -algia

• study of

• -ology

• vomiting

• -ac

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• the structure of body structure

• anatomic position

• Standard reference position of the body

• physiology

• flat surface when object is sliced

• anatomy

• the study of body function

• plane

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• midline

• to the side, away from the midline of the body

• medial

• on both sides

• lateral

• limited to one side

• unilateral

• an imaginary line drawn down the center of the body, dividing it into right and left halves

• bilateral

• toward the midline of the body