PREFIX
ROOT
SUFFIX
DIRECTIONAL TERMS
SURPRISE
100
Brady-
What is slow?
100
Hepato-
What is liver?
100
-centesis
What is puncturing?
100
Toward the right side
What is right?
100
Root Edem-
What is swelling?
200
a- or an-
What is without, or lack of?
200
Phlebo-
What is vein?
200
-emia
What is blood?
200
Situated above another structure
What is superior?
200
Suffix -osis
What is condition?
300
Angio-
What is vessel?
300
Febr-
What is fever?
300
-cyte
What is cell?
300
Away from the midline of the body
What is lateral?
300
Root Pneumo-
What is air?
400
Arthro-
What is pertaining to a joint?
400
Bucc-
What is cheek?
400
-plasty
What is repair of?
400
Closer to the trunk than another structure
What is proximal?
400
Prefix Cost-
What is pertaining to a rib?
500
Dys-
What is with difficulty?
500
Leuko-
What is white?
500
-rrhagia
What is bursting forth?
500
The front of the body
What is anterior?
500
Prefix Chole-
What is pertaining to bile?
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