Understanding Prefixes in Vocabulary

-logy

• Study of

• Study about

• Study in

• Study through

derm/o, dermat/o

• hair

• nail

• skin

• muscle

endo-

• outside, outer

• between, middle

• within, inner

• above, over

crani/o

• brain

• skull

• spine

• jaw

contra-

• for

• with

• against, opposite

• beside

-graph

• instrument for recording

• a type of graph used in statistics

• a visual representation of data

• a method of data analysis

gastr/o

• Heart

• Liver

• Stomach

• Kidney

-megaly

• enlargement of

• reduction of

• inflammation of

• hardening of

faci/o

• facial

• factual

• fascial

• fictitious

epi-

• below

• upon, above

• beside

• between