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Medical Term: Unit 3
Cells, Tissues, and Physiology Word Parts
Question | Answer |
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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 |