Ch 2 - WWCC Medical Terminology - Prefixes

Numbers

100

mono- or uni-

What are the prefixes for one, or single?

200

tri-

What is the prefix for three?

300

bi-

What is the prefix for two, or double?

400

Double Jeopardy! 

quadri- and tetra-

What are the two prefixes for four?

500

Double Jeopardy!

nulli-

What is the prefix for none?

Measurement

100

hyper-

What is the prefix for excessive?

200

hyp- and hypo-

What are the two prefixes that mean under, below, beneath, less than normal?

300

hemi-

What is the prefix for half?

400

Double jeopardy!

milli-

What is the prefix for one-thousandth?

500

multi- and poly-

What are two prefixes that mean many, or much?

Position/Direction

100

retro-

What is the prefix that means backward, or behind?

200

circum-

What is the prefix that means around?

300

Double Jeopardy!

intra- and endo- and in-

What are the three prefixes that mean in, or within?

400

inter-

What is the prefix that means between?

500

ante- or pre- or pro-

What are the three prefixes that mean before, or in front?

Color

100

cyan/o

What is the prefix that means blue?

200

alb- or albin/o or leuk/o

What are the three prefixes that mean white?

300

chlor/o

What is the prefix that mean green?

400

glauc/o or poli/o

What are the two prefixes that mean gray?

500

Double Jeopardy! 

purpur/o

What is the prefix that means purple?

Negative

100

a- or an- or ana-

What are the three prefixes that mean without?

200

Double Jeopardy!

non- or im- or in-

What are the three prefixes that mean not?

300

in-

What is the prefix that means not AND inside?

400

anti- and contra-

What are the two prefixes that mean against?

500

dis-

What is the prefix that means free of?