Comining forms, Suffixes, Prefixes

Carp/o

Wrist bones

Cis/o

Cut

Cost/o

Rib

Cutane/o

Skin

Dactyl/o

Fingers, toes

Duct/o

Lead, carry

Flex/o

Bend

Gloss/o

Tongue

Glyc/o

Sugar

Immun/o

Protection

Morph/o

Shape, form

Mort/o

Death

Nat/i

Birth

Norm/o

Rule, order

Ox/o

Oxygen

Pub/o

Pubis; anterior portion of the pelvis

Seps/o

Infection

Somn/o

Sleep

Son/o

Sound

The/o

Put, place

Thel/o

Theli/o

Nipple

Tens/o

Force, strain, stretch

Thyr/o

Thyroid gland; shield

Top/o

Place, position, location

Tox/o

Poison

Trache/o

Trachea, windpipe

Urethr/o

Urethra

-crine

Secrete

-drome

Run

-fusion

Coming together; to pour

-gea

Substance that produces

-lapse

Slide, fall, sag

-lysis

Breakdown, destruction, separation

-meter

Measure

-mission

Send

-or

One who

-oxia

Oxygen

-partum

Birth, labor

-phoria

Bear, carry; feeling

-physis

Grow

-plasia

Development, formation, growth

-plasm

Structure or formation

-pnea

Breathing

-ptom

Happening

-ptosis

Falling, drooping, prolapse

-rrhea

Flow, discharge

-stasis

Stopping, controlling

-trophy

Development, nourishment

a-

an-

No, not, without

ab-

Away from

ad-

Toward

ana-

up, apart

ante-

Before, forward

anti-

against

auto-

self, own

bi-

two

brady-

slow

cata-

down

con-

with, together

contra-

against, opposite

de-

down, lack of

dia-

through, complete

dys-

abnormal, bad, painful, difficult

ec-

out, outside

endo-

within, in

epi-

above, upon, on

hemi-

half

eu-

good, normal

ex-

out, outside

hyper-

excessive, above

hypo-

deficient, under

in-

not or

into, within

infra-

beneath, under

inter-

between

intra-

in, within, into

macro-

large

mal-

bad

meta-

change, beyond

micro-

small

neo-

new

pan-

all

para-

beside, near, abnormal

per-

through

peri-

surrounding

poly-

many, much

post-

after, behind

pre-

before, in front of

pro-

before, forward

pros-

before, forward

re-

back, again

retro-

backward, behind

sub-

under

supra-

above, upper

syn-

sym-

together, with

tachy-

fast

trans-

across, through

ultra-

beyond, excess

uni-

one

Antigen

A substance, usually foreign to the body, that stimulates the production of antibodies

Antibodies

Protein substances made by white blood cells in response to the presence of foreign antigens