BAY AREA COLLEGE OF NURSING Nursing Assistant Program Module 15: Observation and Charting

Prefix abadanteantiautobradycontradysectoenendoepierythhemihyperhypointerintramacromicrooligperipolypostpreproreretroaway from toward before, forward against self slow against, opposite bad, difficult, abnormal outer, outside in, into, within inner, inside over, on upon red half excessive, high under, decreased between within large small small, scanty around many, much after, behind before, in front of, prior to before, in front of again backward

Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots Meaning

Illustrations from Mosbys Textbook for Nursing Assistants by Sheila A. Sorrentino. Copyright 1992 by Mosby-Year Book Inc. Reproduced by permission of Mosby-Year Book Inc. ____________________________________________________ Do Not Reproduce. BACN Property/2010

BAY AREA COLLEGE OF NURSING Nursing Assistant Program Module 15: Observation and Charting
semitachyuniSuffix -algia -ectomy -genic -gram -graph -graphy -iasis -itis -logy lysis -meter -oma -pathy -phasia -phobia -plasty -plegia -ptosis -scope -scopy -stasis -ostomy -otomy -uria half fast, rapid one

Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots

Meaning pain excision, removal of producing, causing record a diagram, a recording instrument making a recording condition of inflammation the study of destruction of, decomposition measuring instrument tumor disease speaking an exaggerated fear surgical repair or reshaping paralysis falling, sagging, dropping examination instrument examination using a scope maintenance, maintaining a constant level creation of an opening incision, cutting into condition of the urine

Illustrations from Mosbys Textbook for Nursing Assistants by Sheila A. Sorrentino. Copyright 1992 by Mosby-Year Book Inc. Reproduced by permission of Mosby-Year Book Inc. ____________________________________________________ Do Not Reproduce. BACN Property/2010