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Medical Term: Unit 1
Word Roots
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| arthr/o | joint |
| bacteri/o | bacteria |
| bi/o | life |
| blast/o | embryonic, rapidly dividing |
| calc/i | calcium, stone |
| carcin/o, onc/o | cancer |
| cardi/o | heart |
| cephal/o | head |
| chron/o | the order of time |
| chol/e, chol/o | bile (bodily humor in Greek medical practice) |
| cyst/o | bladder; fluid-filled space |
| dextr/o | right |
| dipl/o | double |
| encephal/o | inside the head, brain |
| eti/o | how something came to be |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| hem/o, hemat/o | blood |
| hepat/o | liver |
| heter/o | other, different |
| home/o, hom/o | same, consistent |
| hydr/o | water |
| inguin/o | groin |
| is/o | equal |
| lys/o | kill, separate, destroy |
| meat/o | passage, opening |
| morph/o | form, shape |
| muscul/o, my/o | muscle |
| myc/o | fungus |
| necr/o | dead |
| neur/o | nervous system |
| orth/o | straight, at right angles |
| ost/e, oste/o | bone |
| path/o | disease (literally, “suffering”) |
| ped/o | child |
| phag/o | eating |
| plas/o | formation |
| pseud/o | false |
| py/o | pus |
| pyr/o | heat, fire |
| sarc/o | flesh, muscle |
| scler/o | hard |
| sinistr/o | left |
| son/o | sound |
| sten/o | narrowing |
| stomat/o | mouth |
| therm/o | temperature |
| tom/o | cut, section |
| toxic/o, tox/o | poison |
| trop/o | moving toward or acting on |
| ur/o | urine |
| valv/o, valvul/o | valve |
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