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Chapter 2
| Combining Form | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aer(o) | air; gas |
| ather(o) | plaque; fatty substance (inside of blood vessel) |
| blast(o) | immature cells |
| calc(o), calci(o) | calcium |
| chondrio, chondro | cartilage, grainy, gritty |
| Chyl(o) | chyle, a digestive juice |
| chym(o) | chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach |
| cyst(o), cysti | bladder, cyst, cystic duct |
| cyt(o) | cell |
| ethm(o) | ethmoid bone |
| gluc(o) | glucose |
| glyc(o) | sugars |
| hydr(o) | hydrogen, water |
| ket(o), keton(o) | ketone; acetone |
| lip(o) | fat (outside of a blood vessel) |
| nucle(o) | nucleus |
| plasma, plasmo | formative; plasma |
| salping(o) | tube |
| sider(o) | iron |
| somat(o) | body |
| squam(o) | scale; squamous (meaning scaly) |
| syring(o) | tube |
| algesi(o), algi(o), alg(o) | pain |
| cry(o) | cold |
| dips(o) | thirst |
| esthesi(o) | sensation, perception |
| kin(o), kine | movement |
| kinesi(o), kines (o) | motion |
| phon(o) | sound, voice: speech |
| phot(o) | light |
| son(o) | sound |
| therm(o) | heat |
| acanth(o) | spiny; thorny |
| andr(o) | masculine |
| chlor(o) | chlorine, green |
| chrom(o), chromat(o) | color |
| crypt(o) | hidden;obscure |
| cyan(o) | blue |
| eosin(o) | red |
| crythr(o) | red, redness |
| granul(o) | granular |
| gyn(o),gyne,gynec(o) | women |
| home(o), hom(o) | same;constant |
| ichthy(o) | dry; scaly; fishy |
| idi(o) | distinct; unknown |
| immun(o) | safe; immune |
| leuk(o) | white |
| macr(o) | large; long |
| meg(a), megalo(o) | large; million |
| melan(o) | black; dark |
| micr(o) |
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