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Introduction - 1
Week 1 - roots, combining forms, prefixes, suffixes
Term | Definition |
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adhes | stuck to |
centr/i | center |
format | a shaping |
kil/o | a thousand |
necr | death |
norm | rule |
organ | organ |
pyr/o | heat, fire |
scop | to examine |
therm/o | hot, heat |
tuss | cough |
dem | people |
cis | to cut |
maxim | greatest |
palm | palm |
axill | armpit |
chem/o | chemical |
gene | formation, produce |
macr/o | large |
nom | law |
onc/o | tumor |
pyret | fever |
radi/o | ray, x-ray |
sept | putrefaction |
top/o | place |
infect | to infect |
eti/o | cause |
malign | bad kind |
minim | least |
prophylact | guarding |
a- | without |
ab- | away from |
anti- | against |
auto- | self |
cac- | bad |
centi- | one hundred |
dia- | through |
hetero- | different |
mal- | bad |
micro- | small |
milli- | one-thousand |
multi- | many, much |
neo- | new |
para- | beside |
pro- | before |
syn- | together with |
dis- | not/apart |
epi- | upon |
ex- | out |
in- | in, into |
-al | pertaining to |
-ary | pertaining to |
-centesis | surgical puncture |
-drome | that which runs together |
-form | shape |
-fuge | to flee |
-genic | formation, produce |
-gnosis | knowledge |
-grade | a step |
-gram | a weight |
-graphy | recording |
-hexia | condition |
-ic | pertaining to |
-ion | process |
-ism | condition |
-ive | nature/quality of |
-liter | liter |
-logy | study of |
-meter | measure |
-osis | condition |
-ous | pertaining to |
-pathy | disease |
-phoresis | to carry |
-scope | instrument for measuring |
-sepsis | decay |
-therapy | treatment |
-ar | pertaining to |
-y | condition |