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100
This word literally means to "fix before" or to "fix to" the beginning of a word.
What is prefix?
100
This prefix means "backward or behind".
What is retro-?
100
This prefix means "large".
What is macro-?
100
These prefixes mean "above, excessive, superior, or upper".
What are super- and supra-?
100
If a patient presents to the emergency room with tachycardia, their heart rate is ___________.
What is rapid or fast?
200
True or false: A prefix will alter the meaning of a word.
What is true?
200
This prefix means "after".
What is post-?
200
This prefix means "one half".
What is hemi-?
200
This prefix means "away from".
What is ab-?
200
A teenager presenting to the office with dysmenorrhea is having this type of period.
What is painful period?
300
The prefixes "ambi", " bi", and "hemi" describe these.
What are numbers or amounts?
300
This prefix means "under or below".
What is infra- or sub-?
300
This prefix means "excessive or above normal".
What is hyper-?
300
This prefix means "toward".
What is ad-?
300
These two prefixes mean "against".
What are anti- and contra-?
400
The prefixes "ante" and "sub" describe this.
What is position?
400
This prefix means "between".
What is inter-?
400
These prefixes mean "one".
What is mono- and uni-?
400
These three prefixes mean "outside or outward".
What are ecto-, exo-, and extra-?
400
This prefix means "all".
What is pan-?
500
True or false: All medical words have a prefix.
What is false?
500
This prefix means "before or in front of".
What is pre- or pro-?
500
These prefixes mean "many or much".
What are multi- and poly-?
500
These two prefixes mean "through or across".
What are dia- and trans-?
500
The prefix "pseudo" means this.
What is false?