Chapter 4 - Prefixes Flashcards by melissa chalmers

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carp/o

A

wrist bones

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cib/o

A

meals

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cost/o

A

rib

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cutane/o

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skin

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dactyl/o

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fingers, toes

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duct/o

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to lead, carry

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flex/o

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bend

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furc/o

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forking, branching

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gloss/o

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tongue

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immun/o

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protection

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mort/o

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death

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nat/i

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birth

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nect/o

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to bind, tie, connect

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norm/o

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rule, order

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ox/o

A

oxygen

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pub/o

A

pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone

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seps/o

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infection

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somn/o

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sleep

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son/o

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sound

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the/o

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to put, place

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thyr/o

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thyroid gland; shield

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top/o

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place, position, location

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tox/o

A

poison

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urethr/o

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urethra

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-blast

embryonic, immature

-drome

to run

-fusion

coming together, to pour

-gen

substance that produces

-lapse

to slide, fall, sag

-meter

to measure

-mission

to send

-or

one who

-oxia

oxygen

-partum

birth, labor

-phoria

to bear, carry; feeling (metal state)

-physis

to grow

-plasia

development, formation, growth

-plasm

structure or formation

-pnea

breathing

-rrhea

flow, discharge

ab-

away from

ad-

toward

ana-

up, apart

ante-

before, forward

anti-

against

bi-

two

brady-

slow

con-

with, together

contra-

against, opposite

de-

down, lack of

dys-

bad, painful, difficult, abnormal

ec-, ecto-

out, outside

eu-

good, nomal

ex-

out, outside, away from

hemi-

half

in-

not, into, within

infra-

beneath, under

intra-

in, within, into

macro-

large

mal-

bad

meta-

beyond, change

micro-

small

neo-

new

pan-

all

para-

abnormal, beside, near

per-

through

peri-

surrounding

poly-

many, much

post-

after, behind

pre-

before, in front of

pro-

before, forward

pros-

before, forward

sub-

under

supra-

above, upper

syn-, sym-

together, with

tachy-

fast

ultra-

beyond, excess

uni-

one