Anatomical Prefixes and Suffixes A-E
Terms
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- Absent, deficient, lack of
- a atrophy
- against
- anti anticoagulant
- against, opposite
- contra contraception
- apart, away from
- dis disarticulate
- arm:
- brachi brachialis
- around
- circum circumduct
- bad, difficult, painful
- dys dysentary
- bad, ill
- cac cachexia
- before, in front of
- ante anterbrachium
- Beginning. origin:
- arch archenteron
- bile
- chol cholic
- blue
- cyan cyanosis
- body
- corp corpus
- both
- ambi ambidextrous
- brain
- cerebro cerebrospinal fluid
- cancer
- carcin carcinogenic
- capable of
- able viable
- cartilage
- chondr chondrocyte
- cell
- cyto cytology
- cheek
- bucc buccal cabity
- color
- chrom Chromocyte
- condition or state of:
- asis homeostasis
- denoting hardness
- corn cornified
- destroy
- cide germicide
- doubl
- dipl diploid
- down, from
- de descent
- gernerative or germ bud:
- blast blastocyst
- hard
- dur dura matter
- head
- capit capitis
- hear
- acou acoustic
- hearing, sound:
- aud auditory
- hidden
- crypt cryptorchidism
- hollow cavity
- coel coelom
- intestine
- enter enteritis
- joint
- Arthr arthritis
- lead, conduct
- duct ductus deferns
- life:
- bio biopsy
- lower, uner, against
- cata
- Movement toward a center point
- af afferent artery
- off, away from
- ab abduct
- out of
- ex excise
- out, from
- e eccrine
- outside
- exo exocrine
- outside of, beyond, in addition
- extra extracellular
- outside, outer, external
- ec ectoderm
- pain
- algia neuralgia
- pertaining to a condition of the blood
- emia lipemia
- pertaining to the vessels
- angi angiology
- red
- erythro erythrocyte
- relating to the abdomen
- abdomin abdominal
- sac or bladder
- cyst cystoscope
- self:
- auto autolysis
- short
- brachy brachydont
- skin
- derm dermatology
- slow
- brady bradycardia
- stone
- calc calculus
- surgical removal
- ectomy tonsillectomy
- swelling
- ede edema
- swelling, an enlarged space or cavity
- coele blastocoele
- tail
- caud cauda equina
- togetrher
- xo copulation
- toward, to
- ac actin
- two
- di diarthrotic
- two:
- bi bipedal
- upon, over
- epi epidermis
- water
- aque aqueous
- white
- Alb corpus albicans
- with, together
- con congenital
- within
- en endoderm