Pegarido, Alessandra Balbontin Anatomy and Physiology (LEC)

NG1-01 September 15, 2021

Prefixes and suffixes meaning:

Di – “two”, “twice”, “double”, “twofold”

Mono – “one”, “single”, “alone”, “only”

Iso – “equal or like”, “equality”, “uniformity”, “similarity”

Poly - “many”, “much”

Endo – “within”, “inner”, “absorbing”, “containing”

Hyper – “above normal”, “high”, “beyond”, “excessive”

Hypo – “below”, “less normal”, “beneath”

Inter – “occurring between”, “in the between”

Alb – “white”

Epi – “on”, “upon”, “at”, “by”, “near”, “over”, “on top of”, “toward”, “against”, “among”

Poie – “production”, “producing”

Arth – “A joint”, “an articulation”

Burs – “a bag”

Syn – “together”, “joined”