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Medical Roots S-T
Word Parts
Meaning | Word Part |
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sense of smell | -osmia |
sense of taste | -geusia |
separation | dis-, -lysis |
sheath | vagin/p |
sigmoid colon | sigmoid/o |
simulating | -mimetic |
skin | derm/o, dermat/o |
skull | crani/o |
sleep | somn/o, somn/i, hypn/o |
slow | brady- |
small | micro- |
sodium | natri |
softening | malacia |
sound | son/o, acous, acus, cus |
specialist | -ian, -ician, -ist, -iatrist, -logist |
speech | -phasia, -lalia |
sperm, spermatozoa | sperm/i, spermat/o |
spinal column | vertebr/o |
spinal cord | myel/o |
spine | rachi/o |
stain | chrom/o, chomat/o |
stapes | staped, stapedi/o |
staphylococcus | staphyl/o |
starch | amyl/o |
stomach | gastr/o |
stone | lith |
stoppage | stasis |
straight | ortho- |
streptococcus | strept/o |
structure | morph/o |
study of | -logy |
stupor | narc/o |
sugar | glyc/o, -ose |
suppression | stasis |
surgical creation of an opening | -stomy |
surgical fixation | -pexy |
surgical removal | -ectomy |
surgical repair | -rhaphy |
suture | -rhaphy |
sweat | hidr/o, idr/o |
swelling | edema |
synovial joint, synovial membrane | synov/i |
tap | centesis |
tear | dacry/o, lacrim/o |
teeth | dent/o, denti, odont/o |
temperature | therm/o |
tendon | ten/o, tendin/o |
testis | test/o, orchid/o, orchi/o |
thalamus | thalam/o |
thick | pachy- |
thorax | thorac/o |
three | tri- |
thrombocyte | thrombcyt/o |
through | dia-, per-, trans- |
thymus gland | thym/o |
thyroid | thyr/o, thyroid/o |
time | chron/o |
tissue | hist/o, histi/o |
tissue death | necrosis |
toe | dactyl |