Prefix
Anatomy
Combining Forms
Suffixes
Anatomy again
100

Apart from

What is dis-?

100

Connective, epithelial, muscular, and nervous

What are types of tissue?

100

enter/o

What is small intestine?

100

Surgical removal

What is -ectomy?

100

Found is hollow organs like the stomach

What is smooth muscle?

200

Around

What is circum-?

200

Skeletal, smooth and cardiac

What are muscle types?
200

Lith/o

What is stone?

200

Cutting into

What is -otomy?

200

Provides protective padding

What is adipose tissue?

300

Against

What is contra- or anti-?

300

Adipose, bone, cartilage and tendons

What is connective tissue?

300
Andr/o

What is male?

300

To destroy or break down

What is -lysis?

300

Furthest from the point of attachment

What is distal?

400

Partial

What is semi-?

400

Close packed cells forming the lining of body structures

What is epithelial tissue?

400

Somat/o

What is body?

400

Surgically create an opening

What is -ostomy?

400

Not superior but below

What is inferior?

500

Backward, behind

What is retro?

500

Muscle which helps produce movement

What is skeletal muscle?

500

coagul/o

What is clotting?

500

Voice

What is -phonia?

500

Connects muscles to bones

What is cartilage?