Chapter 5 The Letters 'O', 'P' 'Q' and 'R'

More on the Letter 'O'

1. What is the suffix for 'vision'? -opia

2. What is the suffix for 'to view'? -opsy

3. What is the prefix for 'vision, eye'? opt- (r, ic)'

4. What is the prefix for 'mouth'? or- (o)

5. What is the prefix for 'testicles, testes'? orch- (ido)

6. What is the suffix for 'flow, discharge'? -orrhea'

7. What is the prefix for 'normal, straight'? orth- (o)

8. What is the prefix for 'bone'? ost- (e, ec)

9. What is the suffix for 'diagnostic examination'? -oscopy

10. What is the suffix for 'condition, state, process'? -osis

11. What is the suffix for 'pertaining to a condition'? -otic

12. What is the prefix for 'eye'? ot- (o)

13. What is the suffix for 'cutting into'? -otomy

14. What is the suffix for 'full of, containing, pertaining to condition'? -ous

15. What is the prefix for 'egg, female sex gland, ovary'? ovi-, ovario

The Letter 'P'

1. What is the prefix for 'all, complete, entire'? pan-

2. What is the prefix for 'pancreas'? pancreat- (o)

3. What is the prefix for 'near, beside, beyond, abnormal, lower half of the body'? para-

4. What is the suffix for 'paralysis'? -paresis

5. What is the suffix for 'birth, labor'? -partum

6. What is the prefix for 'disease, abnormal condition'? path- (ia,o,y)

7. What is the prefix for 'child'? ped- (ia)

8.What is the suffix for 'lack of, abnormal reduction in number, deficiency'? -penia

9. What is the prefix for 'five'? pent- (o)

10. What is the suffix for 'digestion'? -pepsia, -pepsis

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1. What is the prefix for 'through, by, excessive'? per-

2. What is the prefix for 'around'? peri-

3 What is the suffix for 'fixation'? -pexy

4. What is the prefix for 'eat, ingest'? phag- (o)

5. What is the suffix for 'to eat, consuming, swallow'? -phage, -phagia

6. What is the prefix for 'pharynx, throat'? pharyng- (o)

7. What is the suffix for 'speech'? -phas, -phasia

8. What is the suffix for 'affinity for, attracted to'? -philia, -philic

9. What is the prefix for 'vein'? phleb- (o)

10. What is the suffix for 'fear'? -phobia

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1. What is the prefix for 'sound, voice'? phon- (o)

2. What is the suffix for 'protection, prevention'? -phylaxis

3. What is the suffix for 'surgical correction or repair'? -plasty

4. What is the suffix for 'paralysis'? -plegia

5. What is the prefix for 'side, rib'? pleuro-

6. What is the prefix for 'breathing'? -pnea

7. What is the prefix for 'lung, pertaining to the lung, air'? pneum- (o, on)

8. What is the prefix for 'foot'? pod- (e, o)

9. What is the prefix for 'many, much'? poly-

10. What is the prefix for 'after, behind'? post-

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1. What is the prefix for 'before, in front of'? pre-

2. What is the prefix for 'in front of, forward'? pro-

3. What is the prefix for 'rectum, rectal, anus'? proct- (e)

4. What is the prefix for 'itch'? psora-

5. What is the prefix for 'false'? pseudo-

6. What is the prefix for 'pertaining to the mind'? psych- (i, o)

7. What is the suffix for 'drooping down, sagging, downward displacement'? -ptosis

8. What is the prefix for 'lung'? pulmon- (o)

9. What is the prefix for 'pus'? py- (o)

10. What is the prefix for 'renal pelvis of kidney'? pyel- (o)

11. What is the prefix for 'heat, fever'? pyr- (o)

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The Letter 'Q"

1. What is the prefix for 'four'? quad- (ra, ri)

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The Letter 'R'

1. What is the prefix for 'x-rays, radiation'? radi- (o)

2. What is the prefix for 'back, again'? re-

3. What is the prefix for 'rectum'? rect- (o)

4. What is the prefix for 'kidney'? ren- (o)

5. What is the prefix for 'backward, in back, behind'? retro-

6. What is the prefix for 'nose, pertaining to the nose'? rhin (o)

7. What is the suffix for 'suture of, sewing up of a gap, defect'? -rraphy

8. What is the suffix for 'sudden, excessive flow'? -rrhagia

9. What is the prefix for 'flow, discharge'? -rrhea

10. What is the prefix for 'rupture of, bursting'? -rrhexis