Word Roots and Combining Forms
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| aer(o) | air; gas
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| ather(o) | plaque; fatty substance (inside of a blood vessel)
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| blast(o) | immature cells
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| calc(o), calci(o) | calcium
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| chondrio, chondro | cartilage, grainy, gritty
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| chyl(o) | chyle, a digestive fluid
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| chym(o) | chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach
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| cyst(o), cysti | bladder, cyst, cystic duct
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| cyt(o) | cell
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| ethm(o) | ethmoid bone
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| gluc(o) | glucose
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| glyc(o) | sugars
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| hydr(o) | hydrogen, water
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| ket(o), keton(o) | ketone, acetone
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| lip(o) | fat (outside of a blood vessel)
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| nucle(o) | nucleus
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| plasma, plasmo | formative; plasma
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| salping(o) | tube
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| sider(o) | iron
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| somat(o) | body
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| squam(o) | scale; squamous (meaning scaly)
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| syring(o) | tube
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| A condition characterized by excessive fluid accumulation int he head is | hydrocephaly
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| A () is a cartilage cell | chondrocyte
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| Inflammation of the eustachian tube is () | syringitis
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| Removal of the fallopian tube | salpingectomy
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| Poison that acts upon a cell nucleus | nucleotoxin
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| Tumor from a fatty deposit inside a vessel | atheroma
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| An () is a gas-producing microorganism | aerogen
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| Originating in the body is () | somatogenic
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| Producing glucose is () | glucogenic
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| Sugar deficiency | Glycopenia
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| Calcium deficiency | calcipenia
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| An embryonic fat cell (outside a vessel) is () | Lipoblast
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| A growth consisting of immature neural cells is () | glioblastoma
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| Separation of blood into parts | plasmapheresis
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| The arrangement of cells in tissue is () | cytoarchitecture
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| An abnormally low level of iron in the blood is () | sideropenia
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| bladder-shaped | Cystoid
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| Metabolic production of ketones is () | ketogenesis
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| Production of chyle in the intestine | chylopoiesis
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| Present during Digestion | Chymopoiesis
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| Relating to the squamous part of the frontal bone is | Squamofrontal
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