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What is the prefix for EPI in Medical abbreviations

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Epi-: Prefix taken from the Greek that means "on, upon, at, by, near, over, on top of, toward, against, among."

Step-by-step explanation:

As in epicanthal fold (a fold of skin that comes down across the inner angle, the canthus, of the eye; epicardium (a layer of fibrous tissue that surrounds the heart and the roots of the great blood vessels)

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