A Proliferation of Pro- Words

摘要

The standard medic al dic tionaryprovides us with 17 pages of technicalwords beginning with the prefix, pro-,totaling about 1,800 health-related terms.This English prefix actually represents twoclosely related prefixes of Greek origin: pro-,generally meaning before, forward or precursorof. And proto- (sometimes proteo-),denoting something highest in rank or firstin a series. Proteus, also, was the mythologicalsea-god of the Greeks.