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Word Roots 19&20
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| an- | not,without |
| cardi | heart |
| ech | sound |
| gram | write,written |
| lal | talk,babble |
| locat | place |
| -ia | condition |
| -ic | like,related to |
| -ion | an action or process;state,quality,act |
| echolocation | a means of locating an object using an emitted sound and the reflection back from it |
| echocardiogram | a noninvasive technique that uses ultrasound to record the functioning of the heart |
| echoic | formed in imitation of some natural sound |
| echolalia | involuntary parrot-like repetition of a word or phrase jest spoken by another;echoing |
| anechoic | free from echoes and reverberations |
| anthrop | mankind,man |
| eo | dawn,early |
| graph | write,written |
| lith/litho | stone |
| paleo* | ancient,old |
| sphere | ball |
| -cene | new,recent |
| -us | thing which |
| -y | state of,quality,act;body,group |
| lithosphere | the outer part of the solid earth composed of rock |
| Paleolithic | related to the early Stone Age |
| Eoanthropus | a genus of early man(comprising only the Piltdown man); dawn man |
| eolith | a very early and crude stone tool |
| lithography | the process or method of printing from a metal or stone surface |
| Eocene | relating to the second epoch of the Tertiary period |