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A comprehensive list of common medical prefixes, suffixes, and roots, along with their meanings. It also includes practice questions to test your understanding of these terms. This resource is valuable for students of medicine, nursing, and other healthcare professions.
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A-, An- ✔✔no, not, without, lack of Pro- ✔✔in front of, forward, in favor of Dia- ✔✔complete, through ec-, ecto- ✔✔out, outside, outward aut-, auto- ✔✔self dys- ✔✔bad, painful, difficult, abnormal end-, endo- ✔✔within, inside ex-, exo- ✔✔out, away from
hyper- ✔✔excessive, above
carp/o ✔✔carpals (wrist bones) cephal/o, encephal/o ✔✔head cerebr/o ✔✔cerebrum, brain cyst/o ✔✔urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst (sac containing fluid) cyt/o ✔✔cell dermat/o, derm/o ✔✔skin elecrt/o ✔✔electricity encephal/o ✔✔brain enter/o ✔✔small intestine erythr/o ✔✔red gastr/o ✔✔stomach
gnos/o ✔✔knowledge gynec/o, gyn/o ✔✔woman, female hemat/o, hem/o ✔✔blood hepat/o ✔✔liver lapar/o ✔✔abdomen leuk/o ✔✔white nephr/o ✔✔kidney neur/o ✔✔nerve onc/o ✔✔tumor ophthalm/o ✔✔eye oste/o, oss/i , osse/o ✔✔bone
Physiology ✔✔Study of function
