Medical Terms with Prefixes & Suffixes

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• Broncho/pulmo

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• Gastro

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• Hepat

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• Neur

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• Cardi

• 

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• Nas

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• Or

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• Pneumo

• 

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• Ad-

• Before

• Brady-

• Against

• Ante-

• Slow/below normal

• Ab-

• Away from

• Contra-

• toward or near

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• Hyper

• Between

• Hypo

• Below normal, low

• Inter

• Above normal, high

• Intra

• Within, inside

• Dys

• Difficult or painful

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• Post-

• Below, under

• Pre-

• Before

• Sub-

• After

• Peri-

• Around

• Poly-

• Many

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• one who specializes in

• -pnea

• breathing

• -plegia

• contraction

• -rrhea

• discharge

• -spasm

• paralysis

• -ist

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• Super/Supra-

• Above normal, rapid

• Tachy-

• One

• uni-

• Above or in excess

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• study of

• -ac

• pertaining to

• -algia

• pain

• -itis

• vomiting

• -ology

• inflammation

• -emesis

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• the study of body function

• anatomic position

• Standard reference position of the body

• physiology

• flat surface when object is sliced

• anatomy

• the structure of body structure

• plane

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• medial

• toward the midline of the body

• bilateral

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

• midline

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

• lateral

• on both sides

• unilateral

• limited to one side