Prefixes
Suffixes
Combining Forms
Medical Term Definition
Tissue/Body Part
100

ana-

What is up, apart?

100

-lapse

What is to fall, slide?

100

cost/o

What are ribs?

100

Aphasia

What is without speech?

100

intervertebral

What is vertebrae?
200

Brady-

What is slow?


200

-plegia

What is paralysis?

200

plas/o

What is formation, growth?

200

Antepartum

What is before birth?

200

intravenous

What is a vein?

300

ante-

What is before, forward?

300

-trophy

What is nourishment; development?


300

Scapul/o

What is the shoulder blade?

300

Diarrhea

What is a condition of frequent loose, and watery stools? 

300

Periosteum

What is a bone?

400

ec-

What is out, outside?

400

-gen

What is to produce?

400

ven/o

What is vein?

400

Congenital anomaly

What is an irregularity appearing with birth?

400

Metacarpals

What are the wrist bones?

500

hemi-

What is half?

500

-mortem

What is death?
500

nat/i

What is birth?

500

Dysmenorrhea

What is pain associated with menstrual flow?

500
Bradycardia

What is the heart?

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