Meaning: Slow

Example: Bradycardia- a slow heart rate (below 60 beats per minute)

Meaning: Inside, within

Example: Endocarditis-inflammation of the inner lining of the heart

Meaning: Upon, over, on top

Example: Epicardium: the outer layer of the heart

Meaning: Excessive

Example: Hyperlipidemia- elevated levels of lipids in the blood. 

Meaning: Around

Example: Pericardium- the membranous sac that contains the heart

Meaning: Fast

Example: Tachycardia- a fast heart rate (over 100 beats per minute)

Meaning: without

Example: Aphasia- a condition characterized by complete loss of ability to speak or understand language

Meaning without not

Example: Anencephaly- a condition where a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp is absent.

Meaning: Difficult, painful, abnormal

Example: Dysphasia- difficult speaking

Meaning: Half

Example: Hemiparesis- a weakness on one side of the body. 

Meaning: Not, inward

Example: Insomnia- inability to sleep. 

Meaning: between

Example: Interneuron- a neuron that transmits signals between other neurons 

Meaning: Within, inside

Example: intracranial- located or occurring within the skull

Meaning: All entire

Example: Panhypopituitarism- decreased function of all pituitary hormones affecting the nervous system. 

Meaning: Beside, abnormal

Example: Paraplegia-paralysis of the lower half of the body

Meaning: Many

Example: Polyneuropathy- damage or disease affecting multiple nerves

Meaning: After

Example: Postictal- the state following a seizure

Meaning: before

Example: Presynaptic- relating to the area before a synapse

Meaning: under, below

Example: Subdural- located beneath the dura mater, a membrane surrounding the brain and the spinal cord.