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"Prefix very much employed in medicine and all of the health sciences, indicating ""not, without, or -less."" For example, the prefix ""an"" figures into these words: anemia (without blood), anophthalmia (no eye), anotia (no ear), anoxia (no oxygen). The ""an-"" usually becomes ""a-"" before a consonant as, for example, in alexia (not read), aphagia (not eat), aphonia (not voice, voiceless). The prefix ""an-"" comes from the Greek meaning ""not."""