Internal_Medicine_Medical_School_Crash_Course_Unabridged_20_A_T

Prefixes indicate position, super, above, existing environmental conditions, zero, dry, location, acro, top or summit, action, ad, to or toward, amount, mille, thousandth of a part, and so on. Here is a listing of common prefixes and their meanings. a, an, without or absence of, ab, from, away from, acro, top, summit, furthest out, extremities, as arms or legs, ad, to or toward, air, aero, air. up, again, backward, anta, before, anti, against, apa, upon or on top of, apo, off, arachn, spider, auto, self, bi, to, bile, life, brachy, short, centi, centi, hundredth part, as in centimeter, chemo, chemical, co, con, with, contra, against, cyto, cell, di, from, down, or lack of, desmo, fetter or band, dextro, to the right, di, to or double, dia, through, throughout, completely, dis, not, free from, to undo, dis, inability, lack of, echo, sound, eco, environment, ect, ecto, outer, outside, electro, using electricity, en, end, endo, inside, within, entero, the intestine, the gut, epi, on, upon, at, by, near, over, on top of, toward, against, among, ergo, work, u, goodly or well, also, normal, ex, exo, out of, outer, away from, extra, outside of, beyond, ferro, iron, fore, in front of, ahead of, gastra, the stomach, geno, gene, genetic, gyn, gyna, gyneco, gyno, woman, woman-like, womanly, helic, helico, spiral, hemi, half, hetero, different, ex, exo, six, break, histo, tissue, homo, same, hydro, water, fluid, hyper, above, excessive, hypno, hypno, sleep, hypo, hypo, below, deficient, incomplete, iatra, referring to a physician or to medicine, iphthi, fish or fish-like, im, into, in, not, into, infra, under, below, inter, between, intra, inside, ipsi, the same, iso, equal or like, juxta, near, nearby, close. karyo, nucleus, kerato, may refer to the cornea, for example, keratitis, or to hard, horny tissue, for example, keratosis. keto, ketone, kilo, thousand, a kilogram is 1,000 grams, lact, milk, lactose, latter, side, lati, width, leuk, leuco, literally white, refers to white blood cells, lip, lipo, fat, litho, stone, longe, length, lyse, lyso, destroy, break apart, macro, large or long, mal, bad or badly, mega, great or huge, abnormally large, meso, middle, meta, after, micro, small or short, milla, thousandth, there are 1,000 milligrams in a gram, mono, one or single, multi, several, many, neo, new, young, recent, nulla, none, oligo, just a few, scanty, omni, all, omphal, the umbilicus or navel, onycho, having to do with the nails, ortho, straight or erect, for example, orthodontics, straightening the teeth, osteo, bones, otto, ear, pachy, elephant-like, pan, all, para, beside, near, resembling, beyond, apart from, abnormal, atho, suffering or disease, per, through, peri, surrounding, phago, devouring, phlebo, vein, photo, light, phys, physio, function, phyto, plant, pneumo, breathing, the lungs, pneumonia or air, poli, many, post, after, pre, before, pro, before, in front of, preceding, on behalf of, in place of, the same as, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initi initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating, initiating,