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Adjectival & Verbal Root word + Combining Forms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |