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Body Substances
and chemicals
Term | Definition |
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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 |