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Adjectival & Verbal Root word + Combining Forms
Question | Answer |
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audi/o | hearing |
bio | life |
brachy | short |
brady | slow |
duct | lead |
dipl/o | double or twice |
dolich/o | long |
-ectas | dilate |
edem | swelling |
-esthes | sensation |
-flect, flex | bend |
gen/o | producing |
glyc/o | sugar |
heter/o | other, different |
hom/eo, hom/o | same, alike |
hydr/o | water, fluid |
-iatr/o | treatment |
lept/o | slender, small, thin |
lev/o | to the left |
lys/o, -lysis | breaking down |
mal | ill, bad |
malac/o | soft, softening |
macr/o | large, oversized |
morph/o | form, structure, shape |
necr/o | death |
orth/o | straight, normal, correct |
pachy | thick |
pale/o | old, primitive |
path-, -pathy | disease |
-phage, phag/o | eating |
-plegia | paralysis |
-scler/o | hardness |
scoli/o | twisted, crooked |
spasm/o | spasm |
-stasis | standing still, stoppage |
sten/o | narrow, contracted |
stere/o | three dimensional |
tachy | rapid, fast |
therm/o | heat |
troph/o | nourishment, food |
xer/o | dry |
aqua, hydr/o | water |
chol/e-, chol/o | bile |
galact/o, lac | milk |
hem/a, hemat/o, hem/o | blood |
plasma | fluid portion of blood |
pus | liquid product of inflammation |
py/o | pus |
serum | clear portion of blood fluid |
ur/e-, ur/ea-, ur/eo-, ur/in-, ur/ino-, ur/o- | urine |
adip/o | fat |
amyl/o | starch |
cerumen | earwax |
glyc/o, gluc/o | sugar |
lip/o, lipid | fat |
lith/o | stone or calculus |
chlor/o, chloros | green |
chrom/o | color |
cirrho | orange-yellow |
cyan/o | blue |
erythr/o | red |
leuc/o, leuk/o | white |
melan/o | black |
xanth/o | yellow, yellowish |