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Prefixes and Suffixes. Chapters 2 & 3. Color Coding of word parts:. 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.
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Prefixes and Suffixes Chapters 2 & 3
Color Coding of word parts: • 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-
Prefixes that express MEASUREMENTS: • Hyper- • Hyp/hypo- • Multi- • Poly-
Prefixes that express POSITION or DIRECTION • Ab- • Ad- • Ambi- • Ante- • Circum- • Endo-
Prefixes that express COLOR: • albino- • Cyan- • chlor- • Erythr- • Leuk- • Melan/o- • Cirrh/o-
Prefixes that express NEGATIVES: • A- • An- • Ana- • Anti- • Contra- • Dis-
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 make words into Nouns: -a -er -ist -ism Examples: Cyanoderma Radiographer Psychologist Albinism
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 -ar -ic -ical -ile -ory -ous -tic All of these suffixes mean the same thing: PERTAINING TO
Let’s see them used in examples: -ac -al -ar -ic -ical -ile -ory -ous -tic “cardiac” = pertaining to the heart “duodenal” = pertaining to the duodenum “ventricular” = pertaining to the ventricle “thoracic” = pertaining to the thorax “neurological” = pertaining to the nerves/brain “febrile” = pertaining to fever “auditory” = pertaining to hearing “venous” = pertaining to veins “cyanotic” = pertaining to blueness
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