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Robin Seamon
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This document contains prefixes used in medical terminology to describe parts and functions of the body, conditions, processes, and other medical concepts. Many prefixes are derived from Greek and Latin and relate to locations, quantities, conditions and other descriptors. Over 200 prefixes are defined with short explanations of their meaning in medical contexts.

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a-, an- not, without, lacking, deficient centi- hudredth epi- upon, above, over ab- away from, out from centr- center erythro- red able capable of cephal- head escent becoming ac- to, toward cerat- horn eso- inward, within, inner acou-, acous- hear cerebr- brain escent becoming ad- to, toward cervic- neck erre wander, go astray aden- gland chel- claw eu- well, good, true, normal adip- fat chem- dealing with chemicals eury- widen aero- air chir- hand ex- out of, away from af- toward chlor- green extra- beyond, outside agri- field, soil chondr- cartilage ferro- iron alb- white chrom-, -chrome color fibr- fiber, thread alg-, -algia pain chron- time fid, fiss split, divide alto- high chyme juice -flect, -flex bend ambi- both -cid-, -cis- cut, kill, fall flor- flower ameb- change, alternation circa-, circum- around, about flu-,fluct-,flux flow amni- fetal membrane cirru- hairlike curls foli- leaf amphi-, ampho- both co- with, together fract- break amyl- starch cocc- seed, berry gam marriage ana- up, back, again coel- hollow gastr- stomach andro- man, masculine coll- glue gen producer, origin anemo- wind coni- cone geo- land, earth ang- choke, feel pain contra- against -gen, -gine producer, former angi- blood, vessel, duct corp- body gloss- tongue ante- before, ahead of time cort-, cortic- outer layer gluc-, glyc- sweet, sugar anter- front cosmo- world, order, form gon angle, corner antho- flower cotyl- cup glut- buttock anti- against, opposite counter- against grad step antrhopo- man, human crani- skull gram, graph record, writing -ap-, -aph- touch cresc-, cret- begin to grow graph writing apo-, ap- away from crypt- hidden, covered gnath- jaw aqu- water -cul-, -cule small, diminutive grav- heavy archaeo- primitive, ancient cumul- heaped gymno- naked, bare -ary, -arium denotes a place for something cuti- skin gyn- female arteri- artery cyan- blue gyr- ring, circle, spiral arthr- joint, articulation cycle ring, circle -hal-, -hale breathe, breath ase names for enzyme cyst sac or pouch habit live asis, asia- state of cyt-, -cyte cell, hollow container halo, hale- salt aster-, astr- star dactyl- finger hapl- simple, single anther- fatty deposit de- away from, down hector- hundred atmo- vapor deca- ten hem- blood audi- hear deci- tenth hemi- half aur- ear deliquesc- become fluid hepar-, hepat- liver auto- self demi- half herb- grass, plants bacter-, bactr- bacterium, stick, club dendr- tree hetero- different, other barb- beard dent- tooth hex- six baro- weight derm- skin hibern- winter
bath- depth, height di-, dipl- (Latin) two, double hidr- sweat bene- well, good di-, dia- (Greek) through, across, apart hipp- horse bi- (Latin) two twice dia- (Latin) day hist- tissue bi-, bio- (Greek) life, living digit- finger, toe holo- entire, whole brachi- arm din- terrible homo- (Latin) man, human brachy- short dis- apart, out homo- (Greek) same, alike brady- slow dorm- sleep hort- garden branchi- fin dors- back hydr- water brev- short du-, duo- two hygr- moist, wet bronch- windpipe duct lead hyper- above, beyond over cac-. bad dur- hard hyph- weaving, web calor- heat dynam- power hyphno- sleep capill- hair dys- bad, abnormal, difficult hypo- below, under, less capit- head ec- out of, away from hyster- womb, uterus carcin- cancer echin- spiny, prickly icthy cardi- heart eco- house, environment ign- fire carn- meat, flesh ecto- outside of in-, il-, im-, ir- not carp- fruit emia in-, il-, im-, ir- to, toward, into carpal- wrist ende-, -ende swelling inter- between cata- breakdown, downward en-, endo-, ent- in, into, within in- very, thoroughly caud- tail encephal- brain infra- below, beneath cen-, cene- now, recent endo within, inside inter- within, inside cente- pierce enter- intestine, gut intra- between entom- insects ion, -sion act of doing
ist a person who practices opthalm- eye roto- wheel iso- equal, same opt- eye rubr- red juxta- near orb- circle, round, ring sacchar- sugar kel- tumor, swelling -orium, -ory place for something sapr- rotten kerat- horn ornith- bird sarc- flesh kilo- thousand orth- straight, correct, right schis-, schiz- split, divide kine- move oscu- mouth scler- hard lachry- tear oste, osse- bone scope for viewing lact- milk oto- ear -scribe, -script write lat- side ov- egg semi- half, partly leio- smooth oxy- sharp, acid, oxygen sept- partition, seven less without pachy- thick septic infection leuc-, leuk- white, bright, light paleo- old, ancient serrate- saw-edged lign- wood palm- broad, flat sess- sit lin- line pan- all sex- six lingu- tongue par-, para- beside, near, equal sol- sun lip- fat path-, -pathy disease, suffering solv- loosen, free lith-, -lite stone, petrifying pent- five som-, somat-, -some body loc- place per- through somn- sleep log word, speech peri- around son- sound lumin- light permea- pas, go spec-, spic- look at -lys, -lyt, -lyst decompose, split, dissolve phag- eat sperm, spore seed macr- large pheno- show spir-, -spire breathe malac- soft phil- love for stat-, -stasis standing, placed, staying malle- hammer phobia fear of stell- stars mamm- breast phon-, -phone sound sten- narrow marg- border, edge -phore,, pher- bear, carry stern- chest, breast mast- breast photo- light stom-, -stome mouth med- middle phren- mind, diaphragm strat- strat meg- million, great phyc- seaweed, algae stria- stripe mela-, melan- black, dark phyl- related group stereo- solid, 3-dimensional mes- middle, half, intermediate physic- nature, natural qualities strict- drawn tight met-, meta- between, along, after phyt-, phyte platn styl- pillar -meter, -metry measurement pino- drink sub- under, below micro- small, millionth pinni- feather super-, sur- over, above, on top milli- thousandth plan- roaming, wandering sym-, syn- together mis- wrong, incorrect plasm-, -plast- form, formed into tachy- quick, swift mito- thread platy- flat tarso- ankle mole- mass pleur- lung, rib, side tax- arrange, put in order mono- one, single pneumo- lungs, air tele- far off, distant mort- death ply- many, several telo- end mot- move pod, ped food terr- earth, land morph- shape, form poly- many tetr- four multi- many por- opening thall- young shoot mut- change port- carry -the-, -thes- put
my- muscle post- after, behind therm- heat myc- fungus pom fruit toxico- poison mycel- threadlike pre- before, ahead of time top- place myriad- many prim- first trache- windpipe moll- soft pro- forward, favoring, before trans- across nas- nose proto- first, primary tri- three necr- corpse, dead pseudo- false, deceptive trich- hair nemat- thread psych mind tropic influencing neo- new, recent pter- having wings or fins turb- whirl neprho- kidney pulmo- lung -ul-, -ule diminutive, small neur- nerve puls- drive, push ultra- beyond noct-, nov- night pyr- heat, fire uni- one -nom-, -nomy ordered knowledge, law quadr- four ur- urine non- not quin- five vas- vessel not- back radi- ray vect- carry nuc- center re- again, back ven-, vent- come ob- against rect- right, correct ventr- belly, underside ocul- eye ren- kidney vig- strong oct- eight ret- net, made like a net vit-, viv- life odont- tooth retro- backward, behind volv- roll, wander olf- smell rhag-, -rrhage burst forth vor devour, eat oligo- few, little rhe-, rrhea flow xanth- yellow oma- tumor rhin- nose xero- dry omni- all rhiz- root zo-, -zoa animal onc- mass, tumor rhodo- rose zyg- joined together

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  • 1. a-, an- not, without, lacking, deficient centi- hudredth epi- upon, above, over ab- away from, out from centr- center erythro- red able capable of cephal- head escent becoming ac- to, toward cerat- horn eso- inward, within, inner acou-, acous- hear cerebr- brain escent becoming ad- to, toward cervic- neck erre wander, go astray aden- gland chel- claw eu- well, good, true, normal adip- fat chem- dealing with chemicals eury- widen aero- air chir- hand ex- out of, away from af- toward chlor- green extra- beyond, outside agri- field, soil chondr- cartilage ferro- iron alb- white chrom-, -chrome color fibr- fiber, thread alg-, -algia pain chron- time fid, fiss split, divide alto- high chyme juice -flect, -flex bend ambi- both -cid-, -cis- cut, kill, fall flor- flower ameb- change, alternation circa-, circum- around, about flu-,fluct-,flux flow amni- fetal membrane cirru- hairlike curls foli- leaf amphi-, ampho- both co- with, together fract- break amyl- starch cocc- seed, berry gam marriage ana- up, back, again coel- hollow gastr- stomach andro- man, masculine coll- glue gen producer, origin anemo- wind coni- cone geo- land, earth ang- choke, feel pain contra- against -gen, -gine producer, former angi- blood, vessel, duct corp- body gloss- tongue ante- before, ahead of time cort-, cortic- outer layer gluc-, glyc- sweet, sugar anter- front cosmo- world, order, form gon angle, corner antho- flower cotyl- cup glut- buttock anti- against, opposite counter- against grad step antrhopo- man, human crani- skull gram, graph record, writing -ap-, -aph- touch cresc-, cret- begin to grow graph writing apo-, ap- away from crypt- hidden, covered gnath- jaw aqu- water -cul-, -cule small, diminutive grav- heavy archaeo- primitive, ancient cumul- heaped gymno- naked, bare -ary, -arium denotes a place for something cuti- skin gyn- female arteri- artery cyan- blue gyr- ring, circle, spiral arthr- joint, articulation cycle ring, circle -hal-, -hale breathe, breath ase names for enzyme cyst sac or pouch habit live asis, asia- state of cyt-, -cyte cell, hollow container halo, hale- salt aster-, astr- star dactyl- finger hapl- simple, single anther- fatty deposit de- away from, down hector- hundred atmo- vapor deca- ten hem- blood audi- hear deci- tenth hemi- half aur- ear deliquesc- become fluid hepar-, hepat- liver auto- self demi- half herb- grass, plants bacter-, bactr- bacterium, stick, club dendr- tree hetero- different, other barb- beard dent- tooth hex- six baro- weight derm- skin hibern- winter
  • 2. bath- depth, height di-, dipl- (Latin) two, double hidr- sweat bene- well, good di-, dia- (Greek) through, across, apart hipp- horse bi- (Latin) two twice dia- (Latin) day hist- tissue bi-, bio- (Greek) life, living digit- finger, toe holo- entire, whole brachi- arm din- terrible homo- (Latin) man, human brachy- short dis- apart, out homo- (Greek) same, alike brady- slow dorm- sleep hort- garden branchi- fin dors- back hydr- water brev- short du-, duo- two hygr- moist, wet bronch- windpipe duct lead hyper- above, beyond over cac-. bad dur- hard hyph- weaving, web calor- heat dynam- power hyphno- sleep capill- hair dys- bad, abnormal, difficult hypo- below, under, less capit- head ec- out of, away from hyster- womb, uterus carcin- cancer echin- spiny, prickly icthy cardi- heart eco- house, environment ign- fire carn- meat, flesh ecto- outside of in-, il-, im-, ir- not carp- fruit emia in-, il-, im-, ir- to, toward, into carpal- wrist ende-, -ende swelling inter- between cata- breakdown, downward en-, endo-, ent- in, into, within in- very, thoroughly caud- tail encephal- brain infra- below, beneath cen-, cene- now, recent endo within, inside inter- within, inside cente- pierce enter- intestine, gut intra- between entom- insects ion, -sion act of doing
  • 3. ist a person who practices opthalm- eye roto- wheel iso- equal, same opt- eye rubr- red juxta- near orb- circle, round, ring sacchar- sugar kel- tumor, swelling -orium, -ory place for something sapr- rotten kerat- horn ornith- bird sarc- flesh kilo- thousand orth- straight, correct, right schis-, schiz- split, divide kine- move oscu- mouth scler- hard lachry- tear oste, osse- bone scope for viewing lact- milk oto- ear -scribe, -script write lat- side ov- egg semi- half, partly leio- smooth oxy- sharp, acid, oxygen sept- partition, seven less without pachy- thick septic infection leuc-, leuk- white, bright, light paleo- old, ancient serrate- saw-edged lign- wood palm- broad, flat sess- sit lin- line pan- all sex- six lingu- tongue par-, para- beside, near, equal sol- sun lip- fat path-, -pathy disease, suffering solv- loosen, free lith-, -lite stone, petrifying pent- five som-, somat-, -some body loc- place per- through somn- sleep log word, speech peri- around son- sound lumin- light permea- pas, go spec-, spic- look at -lys, -lyt, -lyst decompose, split, dissolve phag- eat sperm, spore seed macr- large pheno- show spir-, -spire breathe malac- soft phil- love for stat-, -stasis standing, placed, staying malle- hammer phobia fear of stell- stars mamm- breast phon-, -phone sound sten- narrow marg- border, edge -phore,, pher- bear, carry stern- chest, breast mast- breast photo- light stom-, -stome mouth med- middle phren- mind, diaphragm strat- strat meg- million, great phyc- seaweed, algae stria- stripe mela-, melan- black, dark phyl- related group stereo- solid, 3-dimensional mes- middle, half, intermediate physic- nature, natural qualities strict- drawn tight met-, meta- between, along, after phyt-, phyte platn styl- pillar -meter, -metry measurement pino- drink sub- under, below micro- small, millionth pinni- feather super-, sur- over, above, on top milli- thousandth plan- roaming, wandering sym-, syn- together mis- wrong, incorrect plasm-, -plast- form, formed into tachy- quick, swift mito- thread platy- flat tarso- ankle mole- mass pleur- lung, rib, side tax- arrange, put in order mono- one, single pneumo- lungs, air tele- far off, distant mort- death ply- many, several telo- end mot- move pod, ped food terr- earth, land morph- shape, form poly- many tetr- four multi- many por- opening thall- young shoot mut- change port- carry -the-, -thes- put
  • 4. my- muscle post- after, behind therm- heat myc- fungus pom fruit toxico- poison mycel- threadlike pre- before, ahead of time top- place myriad- many prim- first trache- windpipe moll- soft pro- forward, favoring, before trans- across nas- nose proto- first, primary tri- three necr- corpse, dead pseudo- false, deceptive trich- hair nemat- thread psych mind tropic influencing neo- new, recent pter- having wings or fins turb- whirl neprho- kidney pulmo- lung -ul-, -ule diminutive, small neur- nerve puls- drive, push ultra- beyond noct-, nov- night pyr- heat, fire uni- one -nom-, -nomy ordered knowledge, law quadr- four ur- urine non- not quin- five vas- vessel not- back radi- ray vect- carry nuc- center re- again, back ven-, vent- come ob- against rect- right, correct ventr- belly, underside ocul- eye ren- kidney vig- strong oct- eight ret- net, made like a net vit-, viv- life odont- tooth retro- backward, behind volv- roll, wander olf- smell rhag-, -rrhage burst forth vor devour, eat oligo- few, little rhe-, rrhea flow xanth- yellow oma- tumor rhin- nose xero- dry omni- all rhiz- root zo-, -zoa animal onc- mass, tumor rhodo- rose zyg- joined together