medical prefixes and Suffixes

Ab

Away from

Ad

Toward

Ana

Up

Ante

Before

Cata

Down

Circum, Peri

Around

Endo

Within, Innermost

Epi

Upon, Above

Ex

Out, Away From

Extra

Outside, Beyond

Hyper

Above, Excessive

Hypo

Below, Deficient

Infra

Below

Inter

Between

Intra

Within

Meso

Middle

Para

Beside

Retro

Backward

Sub

Below, Under

Supra

Above, Beyond

Trans

Across, Through

Ambi

Both

Bi

Two, Double

Brady

Slow

Centi

A hundred

Deca

Ten

Dipli

Double

Di(s)

Two

Milli

One-thousandth

Mono, Uni

One, Single

Multi

Many, Much

Nulli

None

Poly

Many

Primi

First

Quadri, Tetra

Four

Quint

Five

Semi, Hemi

Half

Tachy

Fast

Tri

Three

A, An

Without, Lack of

Ante, Anti, Contra

Agaisnt

Auto

Self

Brachy

Slow

Brady

Slow

Cac, Mal

Bad

De

Reversal of, Without

Dia

Through

Dys

Bad, Before, Difficult

Eu

Good, Normal

Hepat

Related to Liver

Hetero

Different

Homeo

Similar, Same

Hydro

Water

Mega

Large, Great

Micro

Small

Nephr

Related to Kidney

Oligo

Scanty, Little

Pan

All

Pseudo

False

Re

Again and Again

Sym, Syn

Together

-Aglia -Dynia

Pain

-Cele

Hernia, Tumor, Swelling

-Emesis

Vomiting

-Itis

Inflammation

-Lysis

Destruction, Separation

-Megaly

Enlargement

-Old

Resemble

-Plegla

Paralysis, Stroke

-Ptosis

Drooping

-Oma

Tumor

-Osis

Condition of

-Pathy

Disease

-Penia

Deficiency

-Phobia

Fear

-Ptysis

Spitting

-Rrhage, -Rrhagia

Bursting Forth

-Rrhea

Flow, Discharge

-Rrhexis

Rupture

-Centesis

Surgical Puncture

-Desis

Binding

-Ectomy

Surgical Excision

-Gram

a Weight, or Picture

-Graph

to Write, Record

-Meter, -Metry

Measure

-Opsy, -Scopy

To View

-Plasty

Surgical Repair

-Plexy

Surgical Fixation

-Rrhaphy

Suture

-Scope

Instrument

-Stasis

Control, Stopping

-Stomy

Surgically created opening

-Therapy

Treatment

-Tome

Instrument to cut

-Tomy

Incision

-Blast

Immature cell, Germ cell

-Cyte

Cell

-Ist

One who specializes in, Agent

-Logy

the study of

-Phagia

to eat