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Body Substances
and chemicals
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adip/o | fat, adipose tissue |
| amyl/o | starch |
| cerumen, cerumin/o | earwax |
| ele/o, ole/o | oil |
| ferr/o | iron |
| lip/o | fat |
| hyal/o | glassy, transluscent substance |
| gluco-, glyc/o, sacchar/o, sacchar/i | sugar |
| lith/o | stones of calculus |
| mel/i | honey or sugar |
| heme | iron based, pigment part of hemoglobin |
| hormone | body producing chemical substance |
| natrium | sodium |
| petrous | stony hardness |
| sal | salt |
| sebum | sebaceous gland secretion |