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Chapter 2
Word Roots and Combining Forms
| aer(o) | air; gas |
| ather(o) | plaque; fatty substance (inside of a blood vessel) |
| blast(o) | immature cells |
| calc(o), calci(o) | calcium |
| chondrio, chondro | cartilage, grainy, gritty |
| chyl(o) | chyle, a digestive fluid |
| 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 |
| A condition characterized by excessive fluid accumulation int he head is | hydrocephaly |
| A () is a cartilage cell | chondrocyte |
| Inflammation of the eustachian tube is () | syringitis |
| Removal of the fallopian tube | salpingectomy |
| Poison that acts upon a cell nucleus | nucleotoxin |
| Tumor from a fatty deposit inside a vessel | atheroma |
| An () is a gas-producing microorganism | aerogen |
| Originating in the body is () | somatogenic |
| Producing glucose is () | glucogenic |
| Sugar deficiency | Glycopenia |
| Calcium deficiency | calcipenia |
| An embryonic fat cell (outside a vessel) is () | Lipoblast |
| A growth consisting of immature neural cells is () | glioblastoma |
| Separation of blood into parts | plasmapheresis |
| The arrangement of cells in tissue is () | cytoarchitecture |
| An abnormally low level of iron in the blood is () | sideropenia |
| bladder-shaped | Cystoid |
| Metabolic production of ketones is () | ketogenesis |
| Production of chyle in the intestine | chylopoiesis |
| Present during Digestion | Chymopoiesis |
| Relating to the squamous part of the frontal bone is | Squamofrontal |
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