title: Negative affixes in medical English.
abstract: Many medical terms have negative meaning expressed by means of a negative prefix or suffix. The most frequently used negative prefixes are: a-, dis-, in-, non-, and un-. There is only one negative suffix -less (Ref. 15).
authors.affiliation: Foreign Language Department, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Martin, Slovakia. dzuganova@jfmed.uniba.sk
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dzuganova
mesh_terms: D008037:Linguistics; D009626:Terminology as Topic