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21 Cards in this Set
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Ab- |
Away from; Abduction |
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Ad- |
Toward; Adduction, addiction |
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Ante- Pre- |
Before in time or in place; Anteroom (an outer room generally entered before a more important room); prerenal (pertains to the area in front of - before in place - the kidney) |
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Circum- Peri- |
Around; Perimeter, circumference |
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Contra- |
Against, opposed; Contralateral (affecting the opposite side) |
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Dia- |
Through; Diameter (passes through the center of a circle) |
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Ecto- Ex- Exo- Extra- |
Outside, without, away from; Export, exoskeleton, extranuclear |
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En- End- Endo- |
Inside; Enclose (to close up inside something); endotracheal (within the trachea) |
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Epi- |
Above, on; Epitaph |
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Hypo- Infra- Sub- |
Beneath, under; Hypodermic (pertaining to the area below the skin); subcutaneous (below the skin layer) |
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inter- |
Between; interval (space of time between events) |
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intra- |
within; intracollegiate (within the members of a college); intramuscular, intravenous, intradermal |
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ipsi- |
same; ipsilateral (same side) |
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meso- mid- |
middle; mesoderm (middle of three tissue layers that form during the development of an embryo) |
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para- |
near, beside, or abnormal; parallel (beside each other) |
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per- |
through, by; perspire (to excrete fluid through pores of the skin); permeable (allowing substances to pass through) |
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post- |
after, behind; postdate, postnasal (behind the nose) |
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retro- |
behind, backward retroactive (extending back to a prior time or condition), retrospection (looking backward in time) |
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super- supra- |
above, beyond; superficial, suprarenal |
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sym- syn- |
joined, together; syndrome (set of symptoms); symbiosis (two organisms of different species benefically coexist) |
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trans- |
across; transdermal drug ( can be absorbed through unbroken skin) |