Using the Black's Veterinary Dictionary – a link to the e-book can be found here - https://wv.abcol.hostedbyfdi.net/webview?infile=&sobj=4029&source=webvd&cgimime=text%2Fhtml
This will take you to a log on screen. Once you have logged in, it will take you to the dictionary which can then be downloaded.
Can you identify the meaning of each prefix & suffix below –?
PREFIXES
• a/an - no/ not/ without/ opposite
• ante - means before/ forward
• anti - means against
• dys - means painful/ diffecult
• ecto - means on the outside
• endo - means situated inside
• extra - means outside
• hemi - means half
• haem - means blood
• hyper - means excessive - above normal
• hypo - means below- less than normal- under
• poly - means many - much
• pyo - means pus
• infra - means below - beneath inside
• inter- means between within
• intra - means with - into
• neo - means new
• peri - means surrounding
• poly - means many - much
• post - means after - behind
• pre - means before - in front of
• psudo - means faulse
• retro - means behind - back - backward
• semi - means half
• sub - means under - below
• super - means above/ beyond
• supra - means upper - above/ beyond
• trans - means across - through
• ultra - means beyond - excess
SUFFIXES
• algia- means pain
• centesis - means surgical puncture to remove fluid
• cyte - means cell
• ectomy - means removal, excision, resection
• emesis - means vomiting
• itis - means inflammation
• logy - means study of, or process of
• penia - means deficiency
• pexy - means fixation, to put in place
• phobia - means fear
• plasia - means formation
• phonea - means reading
• phagia - means eating, swallowing
• stomy - means to form a mouth - new opening
• tomy - means process of cutting
• rrhoea - means a flowing; a flux
• toma - means cutting, cut, secemedenting
