(prefixes)

• aden(o)


  gland
• ana


  up, back again
• angio/ vas(o)


  vessel
• ante


  before, forward
• blepharo


  eyelid
• circum


  around, about
• cyan(o)


  blue
• cyt(o)


  cell
• de


  down from
• di


  twice, double
• dys


  difficult, painful, abnormal
• ect(o)


  out from
• enter(o)


  intestines
• epi


  upon, on
• erythr(o)


  anything red, or to erythrocytes (rbc)
• eu


  easy, good, normal
• ex(o)


  outside
• heter


  other, different
• hom


  same, like
• hyster(o)


  uterus
• iso


  equal
• lith(o)


  stone
• mal


  bad or abnormal
• medi


  middle
• melan


  black
• mening(o)


  membrane, particularly meninges
• myel(o)


  spinal cord, bone marrow, myelin
• ne(o)


  new
• noct


  night
• olig(o)


  little, defficient
• oophr(o)


  ovary
• orchid(o)


  testicles
• orchi(o)


  testicles
• oro


  mouth
• ortho


  normal
• ot(o)


  ear
• para


  by the side of
• per


  around
• phleb(o)


  vein
• pneum(o)


  respiration, air, lungs