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Welcome to the MTWorld free resource on medical prefixes. We have gathered the most common medical prefixes and made them available for your use on our website. Although these standard medical prefixes have been designed with medical transcription in mind, they can also prove valuable to non medical transcriptionists and anyone else in a healthcare or medical career field or anyone interested in the study of medical terminology.

Prefixes	Meaning	Example
A
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A	without or absence of	ametria
Ab	from; away from	abduction
Ad	to; toward	adduction
An	without or absence of	anaerobic
Ana	up; again; backward	anaphoresis
Ante	before	anteflexion
Anti	against	antibacterial
Apo	upon	aponeurotic
B
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Bi	two	bimanual
Bin	two	binary
Brady	slow	bradycardia
C
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Cata	down	catabatic
Con	together	conjugal
Contra	against	contraceptive
D
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De	from; down from; lack of	debride
Dia	thorough; complete	diameter
Dis	to undo; free from	dislocate
Dys	difficult; labored; painful; abnormal	dysplasia
E
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Ecto	outside; outer	ectocardia
Endo	within	endosalpinx
Epi	on; upon; over	epithelial
Eso	inward	esotropia
Eu	normal; good	eupepsia
Ex	outside; outward	excrete
Exo	outside; outward	exophthalmos
Extra	outside of; beyond	extracarpal
H
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Hemi	half	hemidiaphragm
Hyper	above; excessive	hypertension
Hypo	below; incomplete; deficient	hypoglycemic
I
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In	in; into; not	intubate
Infra	under; below	infraglottic
Inter	between	intercartilaginous
Intra	within	intravenous
M
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Mal	bad	malabsorption
Meso	middle	mesocolon
Meta	after; beyond; change	metastatic
Micro	small	micronodular
Multi	many	multilobar
N
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Neo	new	neonatal
Nulli	none	nulliparous
P
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Pan	all; total	pancytopenia
Para	beside; beyond; around	paranormal
Per	through	percutaneous
Peri	surrounding (outer)	pericardium
Poly	many; much	polyopia
Post	after	postembryonic
Pre	before; in front of	preoperative
Pro	before	prodromal
R
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Re	back	reflux
Retro	back; behind	retrograde
S
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Semi	half	semirecumbent
Sub	under; below	subcutaneous
Super	over; above	superimpose
Supra	above	suprascleral
Sym	together; joined	symbiotic
Syn	together; joined	synergetic
T
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Tachy	fast; rapid	tachycardia
Tetra	four	tetrameric
Trans	through; across; beyond	transurethral
Tri	three	trilocular
U
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Ultra	beyond; excess	ultrasound
Uni	one	uniseptate

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