Prefixes
Suffixes
Root words
Body Direction
Hodge Podge
100
poly-
What is the prefix that means many or multiple
100
-ITIS
What suffix means inflamation?
100
CARDI/O
What root word means heart?
100
CEPHALIC
What direction is toward the head?
100
-MALACIA
What suffix means abnormal softening?
200
POST-
What prefix means after?
200
-ECTOMY
What suffix means surgical removal?
200
NEUR/O
What root word means nerve?
200
MEDIAL
What means in teh direction toward or nearer the midline?
200
HYPER-
What prefix means over, above, increased?
300
HYPO-
What prefix means below, under or decreased?
300
-PLASTY
What suffix meanas surgical repair?
300
GASTR/O
What root word means stomach?
300
ANTERIOR
What means situated in the front?
300
natal
What root word means to birth?
400
CHLOR/O
What prefix means green?
400
-RRHEA
What suffix means flow or discharge?
400
MY/O
What root word means muscle?
400
MIDSAGITTAL PLANE
What vertical plane parallel to the midline divides the body into unequal left and right portions?
400
RHIN/O
What root word means nose?
500
PERI-
What prefix means surrounding?
500
RRHEXIS-
What isuffix means rupture?
500
CYT/O
What root word means cell?
500
TRANSVERSE PLANE
What divides the body into superior and inferior portions?
500
A combining vowel
What is used when the suffix begins with a consonant?
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