Prefixes and Suffixes
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Prefixes and Suffixes
Chapters 2 & 3
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Color Coding of word parts:
From now on you will see:
all
WORD ROOTS highlighted in PURPLE
all COMBINING VOWELS highlighted in RED
all SUFFIXES highlighted in BLUE
all PREFIXES highlighted in GREEN
Medical Terms that are constructed
from parts
To review, medical terms that are constructed from
parts may include:
Word Roots
Prefixes
Suffixes
One or more Combining Vowels (usually an “o” or
an “i”
Prefix: a beginning
Always attaches to the BEGINNING of a word
**IMPORTANT NOTE: The meaning of a prefix
always remains the same.
PREFIXES:
Prefixes express:
Numbers, measurements,
position, direction,
negatives, and color
Prefixes that express
NUMBERS:
Bi Tri Uni-
Primi Semi Tetra Quadri Milli-
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Prefixes that express
MEASUREMENTS:
Hyper Hyp/hypo Multi Poly-
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Prefixes that express POSITION
or DIRECTION
Ab Ad Ambi-
Ante Circum Endo-
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Prefixes that express
COLOR:
albino Cyan chlor Erythr-
Leuk Melan/o Cirrh/o-
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Prefixes that express
NEGATIVES:
A An Ana Anti Contra Dis-
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Suffix: an ending
Always attaches to the END of a word
Makes a word a noun or an adjective
**IMPORTANT NOTE: The meaning of a suffix
always remains the same.
Suffixes:
Suffixes usually make a
word a:
Noun or an adjective
Let’s look at more Noun
Suffixes!
These suffixes
Examples:
make
words into Nouns: Cyanoderma
-a Radiographer
- Psychologist
er
Albinism
ist
ism
Suffixes- Adjective endings
In medical terminology, suffixes are what change a
word to be an adjective (or a noun, as we saw
earlier).
What follows next is a list of the most common
“Adjective Suffixes”
Suffixes
–
Adjective
endings
-ac
-al
All of these suffixes mean the same thing:
-ar
-ic
-ical
-ile
-ory
-ous
-tic
PERTAINING TO
Let’s see them used in
examples:
-ac “cardiac” = pertaining to the heart
-al “duodenal” = pertaining to the duodenum
-ar “ventricular” = pertaining to the ventricle
-ic “thoracic” = pertaining to the thorax
“neurological” = pertaining to the nerves/brain
ical “febrile” = pertaining to fever
-ile “auditory” = pertaining to hearing
-ory “venous” = pertaining to veins
“cyanotic” = pertaining to blueness
ous
-tic
-
Pronunciation Practice
Apnea
Hemiplegia
Intercostal
Intravenous
Primigravida
Anemia
Osteoblast
Epilepsy
Tonometry
Hemolytic
Autism
Arachnophobia
Lipoma
Lithotripsy
Colostomy
Dyspnea
The End