Prefixes
Roots
Roots 2
Abbreviations
Abbreviations 2
100
hypo

What is low/below/less than?

100

hydro

What is water?


100

pneumo

What is lung?

100

ac

What is before meals?

100

ICU

What is intensive care unit?

200

micro

What is small?

200

ped

What is child?

200

lacto

What is milk?

200

hs

What is bedtime/hour of sleep?

200

pc

What is after meals?

300

ultra

What is excess/beyond?

300

cerebro

What is brain?

300

nares

What is nose?

300

inj

What is injection?

300

q8h

What is every 8 hours?

400

bi

What is two?

400

leuko

What is white?


400

derma

What is skin?

400

RUQ

What is right upper quadrant?

400

OR

What is operating room?

500

post

What is after?

500

phagia

What is swallow?

500

ophthal

What is eye?

500

N&V

What is nausea and vomiting?

500

qid

What is four times a day?