Medical Term Basics - Prefix + Suffix
prefix: kal
Potassium
prefix:chly
a digestive juice
prefix:para hemi quadri
abnormal, two parts half 4
prefix:meta
after
prefix: aer(o)
air
prefix:physo
air; gas; growing
prefix:pan
all, entire
prefix:peri
around
prefix:ab-
away from
prefix: baso-basi
base
prefix:infra
beneath
prefix:melan
black
prefix: cyst
bladder shapped
prefix:ambi
both, around
prefix: carcin
cancer
prefix: chondrio
cartilage
prefix:etio
cause
prefix:staphyl
clusters
prefix: cry(o)
cold
prefix:scoto
darkness
prefix:necr(o)
death
prefix:apo
derived, separate
prefix:idio
distinct; unknown
prefix:cata
down
prefix:ichthy
dry, scaly
prefix: coni
dust
prefix:tel(o)
end, distant
prefix:ethmo
ethmoid bone
prefix:pyreto
fever
prefix:olig
few
prefix:sito
food
prefix:tropho
food, nutrition
prefix:dynamo
force/energy
prefix:scler
hardening
prefix:crypto
hidden
prefix:kyph
humpback
prefix: blasto
immature cells
prefix:sidero
iron
prefix:ket(o)
ketone
prefix:vivi
life
prefix: actin
light
prefix:fluro
light
prefix:phot
light
prefix: andro
masculine; man
prefix:mes(o)
means, middle
prefix:galact
milkk
prefix:terato
monster
prefix:cine
movement
prefix:steno
narrow, contracted
prefix:nocti, nyct
night
prefix:karyo
nucleus
prefix:ecto
outside
Prefix: Epi
over
prefix: alge, algesi, algio, algo
pain
prefix:stylo
peg shaped
prefix:iatr
physician, medicine
prefix:phyto
plant
prefix: athero
plaque, fatty substance
prefix:tono
pressure/tension
prefix:pyo
pus
prefix:eosin
red/rosy
prefix: dextr(o)
right or clockwise
prefix:squamo
scale
prefix:chym
semifluid production
prefix:ethesio
sensation
prefix:pluri
several, more
prefix:oxy
sharp, acid, oxygen
The prefix brachy- means:
short
prefix:hypn
sleep
prefix:narco
sleep
prefix:brady
slow
prefix:mio
smaller, less
prefix:stere
solid, three-dimensional
prefix:phon
sound
prefix:spasmo
spasm
prefix: acantho
spiny, thorny
prefix:schisto, schiz
split/division
prefix: amylo
starch
prefix:lith
stone
prefix:orth
straight, normal
prefix:xeno
stranger
What does SOAP stand for when dealing with a patient
subjective, objective, assessment, plan
prefix:pachy
thick
prefix:lepto
thin
prefix:dips
thirst
prefix:dia
through
prefix:per
through
prefix:spiro
to breathe
prefix:phago
to eat
prefix:gen
to produce
prefix: crin
to secrete
Prefix: ad
toward
prefix:salping
tube
prefix:oncho, onco
tumor
prefix:strepto
twisted chains
prefix:ana-
up, toward
prefix:poikilo
varied, irregular
prefix: bar(o)
weight
prefix:a-/an-
without
prefix:xanth
yellow
