Prefixes and Suffixes

• a, an


  lack of, without
• -apnea

  without O2
• Anoxia


  abnormally low amount of O2 in the body tissues; hypoxia
• ab-


  away from; abduction, abnormal
• abduction


  taken away from
• abnormal


  taken away from normal
• ad-


  toward
• adductor


  muscles that draw a body (ex. finger or arm) inward toward the middle of the body or of an extremity
• ante-


  before/forward
• hemo/a-


  blood
• angio-


  vessel (blood)
• brady-


  slow
• cardi(o)-


  heart
• contra-


  against/opposite
• dermat(o)-


  skin
• dys-


  bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
• gyne-


  woman, female
• hepat(o)-


  liver
• hyper-


  above, excessive
• hypo-


  deficient, below, under, less than normal
• intra-


  within, into
• intro-


  inwardly, within
• latero-


  side
• mal-

  bad
• my(o)-


  muscle
• nephro-


  kidney
• oligo-


  scanty
• peri-


  surrounding
• phag-


  eat, swallow
• pneum(o)-


  lung, air, gas
• poly-


  many, much
• supra-


  above, upper
• tachy-


  fast
• abdomin/o-


  abdomen
• acous/o-


  hearing, sound
• acr/o-


  extremity, highest part
• aden/o-

  gland
• adip/o-


  fat
• albin/o-


  white
• alg/o-


  pain