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GRST 211Chapter 2-5 Prefix, Bases, and Suffixes notes
CHAPTER 2
USING PREFIXES, BASES, AND SUFFIXES TO DESCRIBE THE BODY
PREFIXES
1. Ambi, -ambo- both
2. Apo- away from
3. Contra- opposite, against
4. Ecto- outside, outer
5. Endo- inside, inner
6. Inter- between
7. Intra- within
8. Meso- middle
9. Sub- below, underneath
10. Super- upper, above, beyond
11. Trans- across, through
SUFFIXES
1. -ad- toward
2. -an- pertaining to
3. -al- pertaining to
4. -ary- pertaining to
5. -ial- pertaining to
6. -ic- pertaining to
7. -ion- action, condition, act of
8. -ior- pertaining to
9. -ous- pertaining to, like, full of, having
10. -tic- pertaining to
11. -verse- to turn, to travel, turned
BASES
1. Ventr- front, abdomen, belly
2. Dors- back
3. Anter- front, before
4. Poster- back, behind
5. Front- front, forehead
, 6. Later- side
7. Medi- middle, midline
8. Mes- middle, midline
9. Centr- center, mid-point
10. Dextr- right, right-handed
11. Sinistr- left, left-handed
12. Laev, lev- left, left-handed
13. Super- above, in the top part of
14. Infer- below, in the bottom part of
15. Cephal- head
16. Caud- tail (in humans, the tail bone or coccyx)
17. Proxim- near to, near a point of attachment, near the beginning of a structure
18. Dist- away from, away from a point of attachment, away from the beginning of
a structure
19. Intern- inside
20.Extern- outside
21. Faci, fici- face, surface
22. Pariet- wall (usually, of a body cavity)
23. Ax- axis, central line
24. Vers, vert- travel, turn
25. Coron- crown, like a crown
26. Sagitt- arrow
27. Morph- form, shape
28. Derm, dermat- skin, layer
29. Som, somat- body
30.Corp, corpor, corpus- body
CHAPTER 3: HEAD
PREFIXES
1. A- without, not, non
2. Anti- against, opposite
3. Circum- around
4. De- down, downward, away from, from, without, out of
5. Dys- bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
6. En- in, inward
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