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Virginia College - Pearson Medical Terminology - Prefixes

Home Get App Take Quiz Create a- not,without, absence of ab- from, away from ad- at, increase, on, toward alb- denoting a white of pale color ambi- both, denoting something as positioned on both sided, describing both of two amph- or amphi- on both sides an- not, without, absence of ana- up, toward, back, again, up ante- before, describing something as positioned in front of another thing anti- describing something as against or opposed to another apo- away, separated from, derived from bi- two, twice, double brachy- indicating short or less commonly little brady- slow circum- around com- with, together con- with, together, jointly cor- with, together contra- counter, against de- away from, cessation di- double, two, apart, separation dia- through, during, across dipl- apart, away dis- apart, away, separation, taking apart dys- bad, abnormal, painful, difficult, defective, abnoral ec- out, away ecto- outer, outside en- within, upon, on, over endo- within, denotes something as inside or within ep- upon, over, above, on top epi- upon, over, above, on top eso- inward eu- normal, good, true, well, new ex- out of, away from exo- outside, away from, denotes something as outside another extra- outside fore- before or ahead front- of or pertaining to the forehead gluco- sweet hemi- one-half heter/o- different, denotes something as the other of two hyper- excessive, abnormally high, above, denotes something as extreme or beyond normal hypo- deficient, abnormally low, below, denotes something as below normal infer- below infra- below inter- between, among intra- within isch- restriction iso- equal juxta- near to, alongside or next to lei- smooth lept-, lepto- light, slender leuco-, leuko- denoting a white color lys-,lyso- dissolution, loosening macro- large, long mal- bad mega- large, great, enlargement, million megalo- large, great meso- middle meta- after, change, behind micro- small, denoting something as small, or relating to smallness, millionth milli- thousandth mono- one, single multi- many, more than once, numerous myri- ten thousand neo- new nulli- none olig-, oligo- denoting something as having little, having few pachy- thick pan- all, denoting something as complete or containing everything par- alongside, abnormal para- alongside of, abnormal parvo- small per- through peri- around pleio- more, excessive, multiple poly- excessive, over, many post- to follow after, denotes something as after or behind another pre- to come before, denotes something as before another in physical position or time primi- first, denotes something as first of most important pro- before, denotes something as before another in physical position or time proto- denotes something as first of most important pseudo- false or fake quadri- four re- back, again, backward retro- backward, behind rhodo- denoting a rose-red color sclero- hard scolio- twisted, curved scoto- darkness semi- half, partial sub- under, beneath, below super- above, superior supra- above, excessive sym-, sy, syl, syn, sys together, joined, indicates similarity, likeness, or being together syn- together, joined tachy- rapid, fast, irregularly fast tetan- rigid, tense tetra- four toxi-, toxo-, toxico- toxin, poison trans- through, across, beyond, denoting something as moving or situated across or through tri- three ultra- beyond

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