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Bio Vocab 205
Bio Vocab 205 Chapters 11-20 (Greek Bases)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pha | to speak |
| Plan | wandering |
| Pleur | side, ride, pleura |
| Xen | host, stranger, foreigner |
| Lemm(a) | Sheath, husk |
| Kym, Cym | wave |
| Mit | thread |
| staphyl | bunch of grapes, uvula |
| Phrag | to block up, to wall in |
| Pneu(a), Pneust | breathing |
| Rhaph | to sew, to suture |
| Spa | to draw, to jerk |
| Hapl | single |
| Loph | crest, ridge, tuft |
| Lophi | small crest, lophron |
| Cyn | dog |
| Steth | chest |
| Pale, Palae | old, ancient |
| ornis, ornith | bird |
| phem | voice |
| gangli | mass of nerve tissue, small cyst or swelling |
| balan | acorn, the penis glans |
| Tok, Toc | child birth |
| In | fiber, muscle |
| Cleid | clavicle |
| Carp | Wrist |
| Cerc | tail |
| Zym | ferment, enzyme |
| Doch | to take or receive |
| Ech | Echo, repetition |
| Gli | glue |
| Camp(t),Campyl | bent |
| Bry | moss |
| Rhach(i), rach (i), Rrhach | the spine |
| Sphygm | pulse |
| Spondyl | Vertebra |
| Thel | Nipple |
| Stern | Chest, Breastbone |
| Tret(t) | to bore, to perforate |
| Chor(l) | fetal membrane (Chorion), tunic of the eyeball (Choriod) |
| clon(us) | muscle spasm |
| Not | the back |
| Adelph | Brother |
| Tel(e) | completion, end, purpose |
| Troch | wheel, disk |
| Xyl | wood |
| Opisth | behind |
| Phy | to grow |
| Pty | to spit |
| stig | pricking, mark, point |
| ec, oec, oek, oik, oic | house |
| colla | glue |
| spor | seed, spore |
| om | shoulder |
| por | passage, pore |
| rhabd | rod |
| ancon | elbow |
| ptyal | saliva |
| antr | cavity, sinus |
| condyl | knob, knuckle |
| alex | to ward off |
| ton | stretching, tension |
| trachel | neck |
| pyl(e) | gate, entrance |
| syring | pipe, tube |
| spir | coil |
| sphen | wedge |
| chy | to pour |
| goni | angle |
| hal | salt |
| corm | trunk of a tree |
| chalmyd | juice |
| bronch(i) | air tube |
| sperm(a), Spermat | seed, semen |
| Pali(n) | again, back |
| Ta | to stretch |
| Asc | bag |
| All | other, different |
| hemi | half |
| pyr, pyret | fire, fever |
| ede | to swell |
| myx | mucus, slime |
| Presby | old |
| Oxy, Ox | sharp, acid, oxygen |
| mes | middle |
| cly(s) | to wash |
| Lept | thin delicate |
| Poie | to make |
| cau, caus | to burn |
| cli, clei | to close |
| log | word, speach, reason |
| dolich | long |
| cleist | closed |
| brachy | short |
| cac, kak | bad |
| crot | pulse, beat |
| petr | rock |
| phon | sound voice |
| phot | light |
| kerat, cerat, ker, cer | horn, horny tissues, cornea |
| (H)apt | to touch |
| Kary, Cary | nucleus, nut |
| Onc, Oncus | tumor, swelling |
| Nos | disease |
| Pneum, Pneumat | air, gas |
| Nem, Nemat | thread |
| stere | solid, three dimensional |
| sten | narrow |
| Phylac(t) | to guard, to protect |
| sep | to rot, to purify |
| (H)aph | sense of touch |
| lepid | scale |
| sarc | flesh |
| splen | spleen |
| scler | hard |
| sit | food |
| phra | to speak |
| glauc | silvery, gray, green |
| Prophyr | Purple |
| Thall | young shoot |
| Pych, Pykn | thick, frequent |
| Poikil | varied, irregular, mottled |
| Xer | dry |
| Zyg | yoke |
| Thi | sulfur |
| Lei | smooth |
| Onym | name |
| Ont | being individual |
| Nyct | night |
| mis | hate |
| saur | lizard |
| phyl | race, class |
| splanchn | entrails, viscera |
| Phthi | to waste away |
| Pto | to fall |
| Schiz, Schis(t) | to split |
| Cente | to puncture |
| heli | sun |
| hom, home | same, similar |
| hol | whole, entire |
| malac | soft |
| mer | part |
| hypn | sleep |
| Ide | idea, mental image |
| cycl | circle, wheel, cilary body of the eye |
| dendr | tree |
| calypt(r) | hidden |
| carp | fruit |
| chord | cord |
| Pyg | buttocks |
| Rhiz, Rrhiz | root |
| Thorac | chest, thorax |
| Pyel | pelvis, especially of the kidney |
| salping | tube specifically "Eustachian or fallopian tube" |
| Pter, Pteryg(i) | wing, fin |
| Phleb | vein |
| Mel | limb |
| Ankyl | bent, stiff, adhesion of parts |
| tox | poison |
| Pen | deficiency, want |
| Pachy | thick |
| hipp | horse |
| oo | egg |
| tach(y) | swift |
| sapr | rotten |
| sthen | strength |
| platy(s) | broad, flat |
| micr | small, one millionth |
| macr | large, long |
| narc | stupor |
| gyr | circle, ring |
| pex | to fasten |
| pag | united |
| lep | to seize |
| trib, trip | to rub, to crush |
| stear, steat | fat, tallow |
| Ischi | hip |
| sial | saliva |
| laryng | larnyx |
| Omphal | naval |
| ur | tail |
| Leuk, Leuc | white |
| Xanth | yellow |
| Phyc | Seaweed, algae |
| cel(i), coel, | cavity, abdominal cavity |
| Hyal | glass, vitreous body of the eye |
| Gen(e),Gon | to be produced, to produce |
| Gon | seed |
| Pyrex | fever |
| Thym | mind, emotions |
| strept, stroph | turned, twisted |
| Trich, Thrix | hair |
| Chir, Cheir | hand |
| Branchi | gills |
| Brachi | arm |
| Prot | first, original, premitive |
| Mon | single, one |
| Di | twice, double |
| Kilo | one thousand |
| Dich | in two |
| Tri | three |
| Deut, Deutr | second |
| Tetra | four |
| Hexa | six |
| Penta | five |
| Octa | eight |
| Hept | seven |
| enne | nine |
| hect | hundred |
| deca | ten |