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Time & Place Prefixes
20 time & place prefixes
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Health Care
Undergraduate 1
08/17/2012

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Term
ana-
Definition

up, back again

 

Example: anabolism - building up

Term
ante-
Definition

before

 

Example: antepartal- care for a women before the delievery of her infant

Term
cata-, kata-
Definition

down, through

 

Example: catabolic illness - a disorder characterized by weight loss, diminished muscle mass and body fat

Term
gen-
Definition

beginning, orgin

 

Example: genetic - pretaining to birth or orgin 

Term
meta-
Definition

beyind, over, between, change or next to

 

Example: metaphysis - region of a growing long bone in which diaphysis and epiphysis converge

Term
noct(i)-
Definition

night

 

Example: nocturia - excessive urination at night

Term
post-
Definition

after

 

Example: postprandial - after a meal

Term
pre-
Definition

before

 

Example: preload - the stretch of venticular muscle fibers at end distole

Term
 prim-
Definition

first

 

Example: primipara - a womans pregnant for the first time

Term
prot(o)
Definition

first

 

Example: protozoon - a unicellular protist that ingests food

 

Term
sym-, syn-
Definition

together, union

 

Example: synthesize - to form by building

Term
ter(t)-
Definition

third

 

Example: tertiary - third in order

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