Prefixes And Some Med Terms

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Apnea

Back 1

Lack of breathing

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Bradypnea

Back 2

Slow breathing

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Dyspnea

Back 3

Difficult breathing

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Eupnea

Back 4

Good normal breathing

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Hyperpnea

Back 5

Excessive breathing

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Hypopnea

Back 6

Deficient breathing

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Tachypnea

Back 7

Rapid breathing

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a-, an-

Back 8

No, without, lack of, apart

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Anti-, contra-

Back 9

Against

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Auto-

Back 10

Self

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Brachy-

Back 11

Short/ close distance

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Brady-

Back 12

Slow

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Mal-

Back 13

Bad

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Dia-

Back 14

Through, between

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Dys-

Back 15

Bad difficult painful abnormal

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Eu-

Back 16

Good, normal

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Ex- and exo-

Back 17

Out, away from

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Hetero-

Back 18

Different

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Homeo-

Back 19

Similar same likeness constant

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Hydro-

Back 20

Water

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Micro-

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Small

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Oligo-

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Scanty little few

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Pan-

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All

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Pseudo-

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False

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Sym- or syn-

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Together, with

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Ab-

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Away from

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Ad-

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Toward, near, to

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Ante-

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Before, forward

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Circum-, peri-

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Around

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Endo-

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Within, inner

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Epi-

Back 31

Upon, above, over

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Extra-

Back 32

Outside, beyond

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Inter-

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Between

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Intra-

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Within, into

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Meso-

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Middle

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Para-

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Beside, alongside

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Retro-

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Backward

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Sub-

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Below under beneath

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Subra-

Back 39

Above beyond superior

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Ambi-

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Both

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Bi-

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Two, double

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Bin-

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Twice, two

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Centi-

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One hundredth

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Deca-

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Ten

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Di(s)-

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Two, apart

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Milli-

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One thousandth

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Mono-

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One

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Multi-

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Many much

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Nulli-

Back 49

None

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Poly-

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Many

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Primi-

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First

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Quadri-

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Four

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Semi- ,hemi-

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Half

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Tri-

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Three

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Uni-

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One

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Afebrile

Back 56

Without fever ( normal range of 98.6°F)

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Arrest

Back 57

To stop inhibit restrain

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Bifurcate

Back 58

Having 2 divisions, forks, or branches

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Binary

Back 59

To separate into 2 branches

Or composed of two elements or structures

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Enucleate

Back 60

Remove the kernel of

Describes the removal the eyeball surgically or to remove a cataract surgically

To remove a part in its entirety

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Extraocular

Back 61

Outside the eye

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Hyperactive

Back 62

Excessive activity which can refer to an entire organism or a particular entity such as the thyroid heart or muscles

Can also describe an individual

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Hypoactivity

Back 63

Deficient low activity

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Hyperplasia

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Over development of a tissue organ or body

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Hypoplasia

Back 65

Under development of tissue organ or body

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Insomnia

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Not being able to sleep

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Latent

Back 67

Lying hidden quiet not active

For instance, Cancer is this with its symptoms

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Lumen

Back 68

Space within an artery vein intestine or tube

a hollow core of some type of shaft

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Multifocal

Back 69

Arising from many locations

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Occlusion/ occluded

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Closing or state of being closed such as of a passage or a lumen

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Patent

Back 71

Wide open freely open for example a lumen would be this, opposite of occlusion

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Pericardial

Back 72

Pertaining to a pericardium

Fibrous Sac surrounding the heart

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React

Back 73

To act again to respond to stimulus to participate in a chemical reaction

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Sign

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Any objective clinical evidence of an illness or disordered function of the body which can be heard seen measured or felt by The Examiner

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Subacute

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Below Sharp

Describes the course of a disease process or the healing process following tissue injury designated on the mid ground between acute and chronic

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Superinfection

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An infection following a previous infection produced by an overgrowth of resistant strain of bacteria fungi or Yeast

Can occur as an adverse effect of antibiotic usage or over usage

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Symptom

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Any perceptible change in the function of the body that indicates disease which is mostly subjective as felt and described by the patient

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Ex-, exo-

Back 78

Out, away from