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Chapter 2
Word Roots and Combining Forms
Term | Definition |
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aer | air, gas |
athero | plaque, fatty substance (inside of blood vessel) |
blast | immature cells |
calc, calci | calcium |
chondrio, chondro | cartilage, grainy, gritty |
chyl | chyle, a digestive juice |
chym | chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach |
cyst, cysti | bladder, cyst, cystic duct |
cyt | cell |
ethm | ethmoid bone |
gluc | glucose |
glyc | sugars |
hydr | hydrogen, water |
ket, keton | ketone, acetone |
lip | fat (outside of blood vessel) |
nucle | nucleus |
plasma, plasmo | formative, plasma |
salping | tube |
sider | iron |
somat | body |
squam | scale, squamous (meaning scaly) |
syring | tube |
algesi, algi, alg | pain |
cry | cold |
dips | thirst |
esthesi | sensation, perception |
kin, kine | movement |
kinesi, kenes | motion |
phon | sound, voice, speech |
phot | light |
son | sound |
therm | heat |
acanth | spiny, thorny |
andro | masculine |
chlor | chlorine, green |
chrom, chromat | color |
crypt | hidden, obscure |
cyan | blue |
eosin | red |
erythr | red, redness |
granul | granular |
gyn, gyne, gynec | women |
home, hom | same, constant |
ichthy | dry, scaly, fishy |
idi | distinct, unknown |
immun | safe, immune |
leuk | white |
macro | large, long |
meg, megal | large, million |
melan | black, dark |
micr | small, tiny |
mio | smaller, less |
morph | structure, shape |
norm | normal |
physi | physical, natural |
pseud | false |
scler | hardness, hardening |
scolio | crooked, bent |
spher | round, spherical |
staphyl | grapelike clusters |
sten | narrowness |
Strept | twisted chains, streptococci |
terat | monster (as a malformed fetus) |
xanth | yellow |
bacill | bacilli, bacteria |
bacteri | bacteria |
carcin | cancer |
kyph | humpback |
onch, onc | tumor |
pachy | thick |
path | disease |
pyr | fever, fire, heat |
schist | split |
schiz | split, division |
spasm | spasm |
anteri | front |
dextr | right, toward the right |
dors | back |
gonio | angle |
later | lateral, to one side |
medi | middle, medial plane |
mes | middle, median |
orth | straight, normal |
top | place, topical |
crin | secrete |
gen | producing, being born |
hypn | sleep |
log | speech, words, thought |
narc | sleep, numbness |
phago | eating, devouring, swallowing |
somn, somni | sleep |
spir | breath, breathe |
actin | light |
amyl | starch |
bar | weight, pressure |
bas, basi | base |
bio | life |
chem | chemical |
chrono | time |
coni | dust |
cycl | circle, cycle |
dyna, dynam | force, energy |
echo | reflected sound |
electro | electricity |
eti | cause |
fibr | fiber |
fluor | light, luminous, fluorine |
fungi | fungus |
galact | milk |
ger, geront | old age |
lact, lacti | milk |
lith | stone |
lys | dissolution, destruction |
necr | death, dying |
noct | night |
nyct | night |
pharmaco | drugs, medicine |
phyt | plant |
py | pus |
radio | radiation, x-ray, radius |
stere | three-dementional |
tel, tele | distant, end, complete |
ton | tension, pressure |
toxi, toxic, tox | poison, toxin |
throph | food, nutrition |