Prefixes
Suffixes
Word Roots
Illnesses
Anatomy and Physiology
100
Abnormally slow rate of speed
What is Tachy-
100
pain
What is -algia?
100
electricity
What is electr/o?
100
weakness
What is asthenia?
100
movement toward midline
What is adduction?
200
half
What is hemi_?
200
inflammation
What is -itis?
200
muscle
What is my/o?
200
wasting of the muscles
What is atrophy?
200
movement away from midline
What is abduction?
300
prefix meaning "much" or "many"
What is poly-?
300
process of writing
What is -graphy?
300
movement
What is kinesi/o?
300
Slight paralysis of one side of the body
What is hemiparesis?
300
closing the angel of a joint
What is flexion?
400
around
What is epi-?
400
tumor
What is -oma?
400
skeleton
What is skelet/o?
400
inflammation of muscle
What is myositis?
400
turning a body part on its own axis
What is rotation?
500
deficient
What is a-?
500
paralysis
What is -plegia?
500
sole of the foot
What is plantar?
500
paralysis of all four extremities
What is quadriplegia?
500
turning upward
What is supination?
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