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Word Roots 19-20
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| an- | not, without |
| cardio | heart |
| echo | 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 just 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 |
| lithosphere | the outer part of the solid earth composed of rock |
| Paleolithic | relating to the early Stone Age |
| Eoanthropus | a genus 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 |