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LANG 3001 Greek
Bioscientific Etymology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| not | a-/an- |
| both | amphi-/ampho- |
| again | ana-/an- |
| opposite | anti-/ant-, en- + anti- |
| away | apo-/ap- |
| down | cata-/cat- |
| between | dia-/di- |
| pain | alg-, odyn- |
| joint | arthr- |
| life | bi- |
| to throw | ball-/bol-/-ble |
| slow | brady- |
| running | drom- |
| earth | ge- |
| road | hod-/od- |
| to remember | mne- |
| form | morph- |
| tooth | odont- |
| to bear | phor-/pher- |
| stroke | plex- |
| paralysis | pleg- |
| foot | pod-/-pus |
| anus | proct- |
| to contact | stol-/stal-/-stl |
| mouth/opening | stom-/stomat- |
| response to stimuli | trop-/trep- |
| urine | ur- |
| to urinate | ure- |
| inward | es-/eis- |
| outside | ec-/ex- |
| into | en-/em-/el- |
| within | endo-/ento-/end-/ent- |
| opon | epi-/ep- |
| normal | eu- |
| external | exo-/ecto- |
| will | bul-/boul- |
| heart | cardi- |
| head | cephal- |
| brain | encephal- |
| cartilage | chondr-/chondri- |
| people | dem- |
| skin | derm-/dermat- |
| marriage | gam- |
| yolk | lecith- |
| eye | ophthalm- |
| bone | ost-/oste- |
| leaf | phyll- |
| plant | phyt- |
| to mold | plas-/plast- |
| body | som-/somat- |
| sheath | thec-/theca- |
| heat | therm- |
| to cut | tom- |
| insect | entom- |
| place | top- |
| development | troph- |
| animal | zo- |
| excessive | hyper- |
| deficient | hypo- |
| change | met-/meta- |
| disordered | para-/par- , dys- |
| around | peri- |
| before | pro- |
| in addition to | pros- |
| together | syn-/sym-/syl-/sy-/sys- |
| to hear | acou-/acu- |
| dull | ambly- |
| flower | anth |
| color | chrom-/chromat-/chro- |
| finger/toe | dactyl- |
| to bind | de- |
| ligament | desm- |
| intestine | enter- |
| work | erg- |
| to perceive | esthe-/aesthe- |
| old person | ger-/geront- |
| to know | gno- |
| to write | graph- |
| thing written | -gram |
| liver | hepat-/hepar- |
| to move | kine-/cine- |
| to read | lex- |
| muscle | my-/mys-/myos- |
| kidney | nephr- |
| smell | osm- |
| to place | the- |
| pertaining to | -al, -an/-ian, -ous/-ious, -ic/-tic/-ac |
| art, science, or study of | -ics/-tics |
| like | -iod/-ode |
| almond/tonsil | amygdal- |
| male | andr- |
| human being | anthrop- |
| time | chron |
| branch | clad- |
| power | dynam-/dyn- |
| to vomit | eme- |
| naked | gymn- |
| female | gyn-/gyne-/gynec-/gynaec- |
| spiral | helic-/helix- |
| water | hydr- |
| physician | iatr- |
| black | melan- |
| corpse | necr- |
| few | olig- |
| child | ped-/paed- |
| instruction | -pedia |
| to eat | phag- |
| to love | phil- |
| many | poly- |
| instep/edge of the eye | tars- |
| condition of the blood | -emia/-hemia |
| science of | -logy, -nomy |
| dissolution of | -lysis |
| madness for | -mania |
| disease of | -pathy |
| abnormal fear of | -phobia |
| treatment of | -therapy |
| surgical operation on | -tomy |
| surgical removal of | -ectomy |
| condition of the urine | -uria |
| extremity | acr- |
| starch | amyl- |
| weight | bar- |
| heavy | bary- |
| cell | cyt- |
| thirst | dips- |
| sickle | drepan- |
| red | erythr- |
| sugar | glyc-/glycos- |
| tissue | hist-/histi- |
| fish | ichthy- |
| iris/rainbow | irid-/iris- |
| to suppress | isch- |
| abdomen | lapar- |
| breast | mast-/maz- |
| pus | py- |
| death | thanat- |
| producing | -genous/-genic |
| solid figure having a number of faces | -hedron |
| diseased condition | -iasis |
| measure | -meter |
| science of measuring | -metry |
| having a house | -oecious |
| loving | -philous/-philic |
| formation | -plasty |
| abnormal flow | -rrhea |
| making a surgical opening | -stomy |
| thorn | acanth- |
| self | aut- |
| eyelid | blephar- |
| cancer | carcin- |
| lip | cheil-/chil- |
| colon | col- |
| excrement | copr- |
| cold | cry-/crym- |
| bladder | cyst- |
| tear | dacry- |
| stomach | gastr-/gaster- |
| worm | helminth- |
| moisture | hygr- |
| menstruation | men- |
| mind | psych- , phren- |
| nose | rhin-/-rrhin |
| to arrange | tac-/tax- |
| means of | -ter |
| one who | -ist/-ast, -te/-t |
| specialist in | -ician |
| ray | actin- |
| silver | argyr- |
| to step | ba- |
| bromine | brom- |
| bile | chol-/chole- |
| to break | clas- |
| cranium | crani- |
| to separate | cri- |
| wide | eury-/eurys- |
| blood | hem-/hemat-/haem-/haemat- |
| sweat | hidro-/hidros- |
| stone | lith-/-lite |
| fly | myi- |
| face | prosop- |
| straight | orth- |
| to show | pha-/phan- |
| to flow | rhe-/-rrh |
| to view | scop- |
| to stop | sta- |
| pillar | styl- |
| condition of | -ia/-y, -ism/ismus |
| act of | -sis/-sia/-sy/-se |
| result of the act of | -ma/-m/-me |
| to see | blep- , op-/opt- |
| pupil of the eye | cor-/core- |
| blue | cyan- |
| to be pregnant | cye- |
| milk | galact-/gala- |
| to taste | geu- |
| language | gloss-/glot-/glott- |
| distinct | idi- |
| same | is- |
| to talk | lal- |
| difficult | mogi- |
| new | ne- |
| claw/toenail | onych- |
| to digest | pep-/peps-/pept- |
| false | pseud- |
| afar | tele- |
| tumor composed of | -oma |
| process of | -osis |
| inflammation of | -itis |
| chemical substance | -in/-ine |
| region | -ium |
| gland | aden- |
| vessel | angi- |
| spider | arachn- |
| star- | astr-/aster- |
| germ/embryonic cell | blast- |
| green/chlorine | chlor- |
| berry-shaped organism | cocc- |
| dust | coni- |
| early age | eo-/eos- |
| to loosen | ly- |
| membrane | mening- |
| uterus | metr- , hyster- |
| fungus | myc-/mycet- |
| spinal cord | myel- |
| nerve | neur- |
| testicle | orch-/orchi-/orchid- |
| complete | pan-/pant- |
| lung | pneumon-/pneum- |
| gray | poli- |
| clot | thromb- |
| ear | ot- |
| descended to | -idae/-ida/-id |
| expelling | agog-/agogue- |
| increase | aux-/auxe- |
| twin/testicle | didym- |
| horse | hipp- |
| hip | ischi- |
| to seize | lep- |
| large | macr- , mega-/megal- |
| limb | mel- |
| small | micr- |
| stupor | narc- |
| naval | omphal- |
| to fasten | pex- |
| united | pag- |
| flat | platy-/platys- |
| rotten | sapr- |
| strength | sthen- |
| swift | tach-/tachy- |
| little | -ium/-ion, -idium/-idion, -arium/-arion, -isk/-iscus |
| bag | asc- |
| gills | branchi- |
| fruit | carp- |
| hernia | -cele |
| vagina | colp- |
| to produce | gen-/gene-/gon- |
| seed | gon- |
| sun | heli- |
| part | mer- |
| night | nyct- |
| name | onym- |
| egg | oo- |
| thick | pachy- |
| deficiency | pen- |
| vein | phleb- |
| to waste away | phthi- |
| seaweed/algae | phyc- |
| to fall | pto- |
| tube | salping- |
| lizard | saur- |
| yellow | xanth- |
| painful seizure | -agra |
| arm | brachi- |
| to puncture | cente- |
| hand | chir-/cheir- |
| abdominal cavity | cel-/celi-/coel-/-coel |
| tree | dendr- |
| glass | hyal- |
| larynx | laryng- |
| smooth | lei- |
| soft | malac- |
| flagellum | mastig-/mastix- |
| hate | mis- |
| wing/fin | pter-/pteryg-/pterygi- |
| to split | schiz-/schis-/schist- |
| entrails | splanchn- |
| sulfur | thi- |
| thorax | thorac- |
| poison | tox- |
| hair | trich-/thrix- |
| dry | xer- |
| mata | singular -ma |
| ses | singular -sis |
| a | singular -on |
| itides | singular -itis |
| nges | singular -nx |
| vowel + ces | singular vowel + x |
| different | all-/heter- |
| stiff | ankyl- |
| circle | cycl-/gyr- |
| love | er-/erot- |
| jaw | geny-/gnath- |
| whole | hol- |
| similar | hom-/home- |
| sleep | hypn- |
| idea | ide- |
| white | leuk-/leuc- |
| individual | ont-/-us |
| class | phyl- |
| pelvis (kidney) | pyel- |
| buttocks | pyg- |
| fat | lip-, stear-/steat- |
| twisted | strept-/stroph- |
| young shoot | thall- |
| emotions | thym- |
| to crush | trib-/trip- |
| yoke | zyg- |
| half | hemi- |
| one | mon- |
| original | prot- |
| twice | di- |
| in two | dich- |
| second | debt-/deuter- |
| three | tri- |
| four | tetr-/tetra- |
| five | pent-/penta- |
| six | hex-/hexa- |
| seven | hept-/hepta- |
| eight | oct-/octa- |
| nine | enne-/ennea- |
| ten | dec-/deca- |
| hundred | hect- |
| one thousand | kilo- |
| short | brachy- |
| bad | cac-/kak- |
| to burn | cau-/caus- |
| to close | cli-/clei- |
| closed | cleist- |
| to wash | cly-/clys- |
| pulse beat | crot- |
| long | dolich- |
| to swell | ede- |
| thin | lept- |
| word | log- |
| middle | mes- |
| mucus | blenn-/myx- |
| oxygen | oxy-/ox- |
| sound | phon- |
| light | phot- |
| to make | poie- |
| to make | -ize, -ate |
| old | presby- |
| fire | pyr-/pyret- |
| fever | pyrex- |
| root | rhiz-/-rrhiz |
| silvery | glauc- |
| knee | gon-/gony-/gonat- |
| to touch | apt-/hapt- |
| sense of touch | aph-/haph- |
| nucleus | kary-/cary- |
| horn | kerat-/cerat-/ker-/cer- |
| scale | lepid- |
| thread | mit-, nem-/nemat- |
| disease | path-, nos- |
| tumor | onc-/-oncus |
| air | aer-, pneum-/pneumat- |
| to protect | phylac-/phylact- |
| purple | porphyr- |
| flesh | sarc- |
| hard | scler- |
| to rot | sep- |
| food | sit- |
| spleen | splen- |
| narrow | sten- |
| solid | stere- |
| dog | cyn- |
| single | hapl- |
| wave | kym-/cym- |
| husk | lemm-/lemma- |
| crest | loph- |
| small crest | lophi- |
| lymph | lymph- |
| bird | ornis-/ornith- |
| ancient | arch-/arche- , pale-/palae- |
| to speak | pha-, phra- |
| voice | phem- |
| to wall in | phrag- |
| wandering | plan- |
| side | pleur- |
| folded | -plo- |
| breathing | pne-/pnea-/pneust- |
| to sew | rhaph-/-rrhaph |
| to draw | spa- |
| uvula | staphyl- |
| stranger | xen- |
| acorn | balan- |
| moss | bry- |
| bent | camp-/campt-/campyl- |
| wrist | carp- |
| tail | ur-/cerc- |
| clavicle | cleid- |
| to take or receive | doch- |
| echo | ech- |
| mass of nerve tissue | gangli- |
| fiber | in- |
| the spine | rhach-/rhachi-/rach-/rachi-/-rrhach- |
| excessive discharge, usually of blood | -rrhag- |
| pulse | sphygm- |
| vertebra | spondly- |
| chest | steth-, stern- |
| nipple | thel- |
| childbirth | toc-/tok- |
| to bore | tre-/tret- |
| ferment | zym- |
| brother | adelph- |
| elbow | ancon- |
| hidden | crypt-, calypt-/calyptr- |
| cord | chord- |
| fetal membrane | chor-/chori- |
| muscle spasm | clon-/clonus- |
| glue | gli-, coll-/colla- |
| house | ec-/oec-/oek-/oik-/oic- |
| the back | not- |
| shoulder | om- |
| behind | opisth- |
| to grow | phy- |
| pore | por- |
| to spit | pty- |
| saliva | sial-, ptyal- |
| rod | rhabd- |
| spore | spor- |
| mark | stig- |
| completion | tel-/tele- |
| wheel | troch- |
| wood | xyl- |
| to ward off | alex- |
| cavity | antr- |
| air tube | bronch-/bronchi- |
| cloak | chlamyd- |
| to pour | chy- |
| juice | chym-/chyl- |
| knuckle | condyl- |
| trunk | of a tree or body corm- |
| angle | gon-/goni- |
| salt | hal- |
| again | pali-/palin- |
| irregular | poikil- |
| frequent | pycn-/pykn- |
| entrance | pyl-/pyle- |
| semen | sperm-/sperma-/spermat- |
| wedge | sphen- |
| coil | spir- |
| pipe | syring-/syrinx- |
| to stretch | ta- |
| stretching | ton- |
| neck | trachel- |
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