Medical Professions
Prefixes
Suffixes
Root Words
Anatomical Directions
100
EMR

What is Emergency Medical Responder?

100

Bio-

What prefix means life?

100

-cyte

What suffix means cell?

100

Hearing

What is the root word audio?

100

Towards the midline

What is medial?

200

RN

What is a registerd nurse?

200

Anti-

What Prefix mean against?

200

-osis

What suffix means condition (usually abnormal)?

200
Bone
What does the root word osteo mean ?
200

Downwards, below

What is inferior?

300

PT

What is a physical therapist?

300
Fibr/o-

What prefix means fiber?

300

-pathy

What suffix mean disease?

300

Heart

What is the root word cardio?

300

Closer to the point of origin

What is proximal?

400
MD

What is a Medical Doctor?

400

Idio-

What prefix means self?

400
-Emia
What suffix mean blood condition ?
400

Skin

What is the root word derm?

400

Towards the front

What is anterior/ventral?
500

DVM

What is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine?

500
Lyso-

What prefix means break down, destruction, dissolving?

500
-ltis
What suffix mean inflammation of ?
500
White
What does the root word leuko mean ?
500

Further from the midline

What is distal?

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