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Medical Term: Unit 3
Cells, Tissues, and Physiology Word Parts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adip/o, lip/o | fat |
| -blast, blast/o | rapidly dividing cell, precursor cell |
| carcin/o | cancer (Greek word that literally means “crab”) |
| chem/o | chemical |
| Colla- | glue |
| -cyte, cyt/o | cell, smallest unit of living matter, bounded by a membrane |
| fibr/o | fiber |
| -gen, -genic | to produce, orgin |
| gluc/o, glyc/o, glycos/o, sacchar/o | sugar (glucose) |
| hemat/o, hem/o | blood |
| hist/o | tissue |
| hydr/o | water |
| kary/o, nucle/o | nucleus, the center of something, e.g. the center of an atom |
| -kine, kinesi/o | Greek kinein, “move” |
| -lemma | membrane |
| morph/o | form, shape |
| myc/o | fungus |
| necr/o | dead |
| organ/o | organ, structure that does something |
| -ose | carbohydrate |
| osm/o | particle movement (Greek osmos, “push”) |
| perm/e | passing through |
| -phage, phag/o | eater, eating |
| -philia | love, affinity |
| -phobia | fear |
| physi/o | function |
| -plasm | something molded or created, jelly |
| -poiesis | making, formation, production, producing |
| -ploid, -ploidy | number of chromosomes, literally “fold” |
| -pod, pod/o | foot |
| -potent | able to do something (Latin; compare Spanish poder) |
| -protein, prote/o | chemical making up most of the biological material in a human cell; literally, prote- + -in, “first chemical” |
| reticul/o | net-like, network |
| somat/o, -some, -somy | body |
| staphyl/o | grape-like clusters |
| strept/o | twisted chains |
| tax/i, -taxis | movement (Greek taxis, arrangement, as in “tactics”, the arrangement of troops) |
| -tonic | concentration, strength |
| -tropic, trop/o | moving toward or acting on |
| -type | symbol; emblem |
| -zoa, zoo- | living thing, life, animal |