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Chapter 2
Combining Form | Meaning |
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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) |