医学英语构词法学生用

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Prefixes:

The following are some examples of words containing prefixes showing position and their definitions.

Word	Definition	Word	Definition
Aboral	away from the mouth	Infusion	steeping a substance in water
Adduction	movement of a limb toward a median line	Inhale	to draw in breath
Adoral	near or directed toward the mouth (or)	Laterotorsion	twisting to one side
Alloantigen	occurs in some but not others of same species	Levorotation	turning or twisting to the left
Allopathy	cond dia, condition that is incompatible with first	Opisthotonos	a spasm in which the spine and extremities are bent
Antebrachium	forearm	Perinatal	time period before, during or after the time of birth
Antepartum	before childbirth	Periodontal	around a mouth
Antitoxic	neutralizing the action of a poison	Peroral	through the mouth
Apophysis	an outgrowth or projection, especially from a bone	Postanaesthetic	after anaesthetic
Contraception	prevention of conception or pregnancy	Postnasal	posterior of the nasal cavity
Dextrogastria	displacement of the stomach to the right	Precapillary	preceding a capillary
Diapedesis	the passage of blood through the walls of blood vesls	Predentin	organic fiber of dentin before its calcification
Disct	to cut apart or parate the tissue of a body for study	Procephalic	relationing to the anterior part of the head
Dorsocephalad	toward the back of the head	Prochondral	developmental stage prior to formation of cartilage
Ecchondroma	outgrowth from cartilage, mass protruding from bone	Recuperate	to recover, to regain health and strength
Encephalopathy 英文歌吧	any dia of the brain	Rehydration	return of water to a system after its loss
Endoderm	innermost of the primary layers of the embryo	Retrogression	previous, less complex conditions
Epicranium	the muscle, aponeurosis, and skin covering the cranium	Schizonychia	splitting of the nails
Excementosis	outgrowth of root surface of a tooth	Schizophrenia	personality disorder, withdrawal from outside world
Heterocellular	occurs in some but not others of the same species	Transfusion	transfer of blood
Heterotypic	different or unusual type
Homeostasis	state of equilibrium in the body
Homomorphic	two or more structures of similar size

The following are some examples of words containing prefixes of direction and colour along with their definitions.

Words	Definition
ankylosis	immobility of a joint due to a dia
brachygnathia	abnormal shortness of the lower jaw
bradypnea	abnormal slowness of breathing
chloroma	greenish-yellow tumour arising from myeloid tissue pun
cirrhosis	hardening of an organ, especially the liver
cyanopsia	defect of vision in which objects appear tinged with blue
erythrocyte	red blood cell
glaucoma	group of eye dias
kyphoscoliosis	backward and lateral curvature of the spinal column
leukomyelitis	inflammation of the white substance of the spinal chord
melanin	dark pigment of the skin, hair, choroid coat of the eyes and various tumours.
orthodontist	a dentist who specialists in the branch of dentistry concerned with irregularities of teeth and malocclusion
stenothorax	abnormal narrowness of the chest
tachycardia	abnormally rapid heart rate

The following illustrations are of prefixes showing measurement.

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Word	Definition
Acardia	congenital abnce of the heart
ambilateral	pertaining to or affecting both sides
amphibolic	having both an anabolic and catabolic function.
anisotropic	having unlike properties in different directions
diplopia	perception of two images of a singie object
hypodermic	applied below the skin
hyperthermia	very high body temperature
macrocephaly	excessive size of the head
megakaryocyte	the giant cell of bone marrow containing a greatly lobulated nucleus, from which mature blood platelets originate
multi-infection	many infections
oligotrophy	insufficient nutrition
Inert	lacking the power to move
isoenergetic	exhibiting equal energy
pananxiety	a diffu, all pervading anxiety
polyplegia	paralysis of veral muscles
primigravida	a woman pregnant for the first time
protoneuron	the first neuron in a peripheral reflex arc
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A-B

karachi

Laymen's term	Medical suffix	Laymen's term	Medical suffix	Laymen's term	Medical suffix
Abdomen	lapar-	back	dors -	black	melan -
above	super -	backward	retro -	bladder, sac	cysto -
above	supra -	band (fibrous)	fascia -	bladder, sac	vesic -
acros	trans -	before	pre -	blood	haemo -
agains	anti -	before	ante -	body	soma -
against	contra -	behind	post -	bone	osteo -
All	pan -	below	1518今日运程sub -	bone marrow,	myelo -
arm	brachio -	beside	para -	both, two	bi -
around	circum-	between	inter -	bowl of kidney	pyelo -
around	peri -	bile	chole -	brain	cerebro -
拘束的意思artery	arterio -	birth	natus -	brain	encephal -
away from	ab -	birth, labour	part -	breast	mamm-, mast-
				bronchial	bronchi-,broncho -

C-H

Layman's term	Medical term	Layman's term	Medical term	Layman's term	Medical term
cancer	carcin -	double	diplo -	foot	ped -, pod -
cartilage	chondro -	ear, hearing	oto -	forward	pro -
cell	cyt -, cyte -	ear, hearing	aud-, aur -	gallbladder	cholecyst -
cheek	buccal -	egg	ovi -	gland	aden -
child	paed -	elbow, forearm	cubitus -	gums	gingiva -
hspaclot	thrombo -	excessive	hyper -	half	hemi -
colon	col -	eye	ocul -	hand	chiro -.chiro -.
cornea; scaly	kerat -	eye	ophthal-	head	cephalo-
covering	cort -	facies, face	faci -	heart	cardio -
crooked, looped	ankyl -	fal	pudo-	heat	therm-
deficient	hypo -	fat	lip -	hip	coxa -
Diaphragm	phrenic -	finger, toe nail	onych -	hip bone	ili -
		fluid	lymph -	hundredth(100th)	centi -

L-P

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Layman's term	Medical prefix	Layman's term	Medical prefix	Layman's term	Medical prefix
inside	intra -	lung	pneumo-	nerve	neuro -
inside, within	endo -	lung	pulm -	new	neo -
intestine	enter -	many	Poly -	nipple	thel -
intestine (part)	ile -	membrane	mening-	no	rhin -
iris (eye)	iri -	menstruate	meno- mens -	no, nostrils	nares-/nas -
joint	arthro-	middle	meso-	one, single	mono -
kidney	nephro-	milk	lacto -	organ	viscera -
kidney	ren -	mind, soul	psycho-	outside	ecto -
knee	genu -	mouth	stoma-	ovary	oophoro-
large	macro -	mouth, bone	or -	ovary	ovario-
larynx	laryng-	mucus	myx -	painful, abdominal	dys -
like, similar	al -	muscle	myo -	pharynx	pharyng-
lip	labia -	narrowing	stric -	pleura of lung	pleur -
liver	hepato -	neck	cervic-	pregnant	gravid-
		neck	trachel-	pus	pyo -

R-Z

Layman's term	Medical prefix	Layman's term	Medical prefix	Layman's term	Medical prefix
rapid	tachy -	stomach	gastro -	tube	salpingo-
rectum	procto -	stone	lith -	upper, above	epi -
red	erythro-	straight	ortho -	uterus, womb	hyster -
ribs	costo -	swelling (fluid)	edem -	uterus, womb	metro -
saliva	sial -	tail	caud -	vagina	colp -
scaly	squam -	tenth (10th)	deci -	vein	phleb -
ed	min -	testes	orchid-	vesl	vas -
skin	cut -	thorax	thorac -	vesl (blood)	angio -
skin	derma -	thousand	kilo -	water	hydro -
skull	cranio -	thousandth(1000th)	milli -	wax, suet	bum -
slow	brady -	tongue	gloss -	weakness, lack	asthen-
small	micro -	tongue	lingua -	weight	bar -
spinal cord	myelo -	tooth	dent -	white	leuko -
spine	spondyl-	tooth	odont -	without	a -, an -
spleen	splen -	toward	ad -	2012年四川高考数学woman	gyne -
starch	amyl -	trachea	trache -	wrist	carpo -