PREFIXES
SUFFIXES
ROOT WORDS
HUMAN BODY
ABREVIATIONS
100

a, an

without

100

a, ac

Pertaining to

100

Rhin

nose

100

Nose

Rhin

100

What is AMB?

AMBULATE

200

circum

around

200

algia

pain

200

stoma

mouth

200

Neck

cervic

200

NPO?

Nothing by mouth

300

post

behind, after

300

emia

blood (condition of the blood)

300

leuko

White

300

Fat

Adip

300

EEG?

electrocephalogram

400

ortho

straight

400

penia

decrease (deficiency)

400

osteo

bone

400

Lung

Pulmon, Pneum

400

EKG?

Electrocardiogram

500

pan

all

500

rrhea

flow

500

ovar

egg

500

Viscero

Organ

500

IV?

intravenous 

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