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Combining Forms
LO 1.4 Related to Body parts or Elements
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| acr/o | air, gas |
| ather/o | plaque, fatty substance (inside a blood vessel) |
| blast/o | immature cells |
| calc/o, calci/o | calcium |
| chondrio, chondr/o | cartilage, grainy, gritty |
| chyl/o | chyle, a digestive juice |
| chym/o | chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach |
| cyst/o, cysti | bladder, cyst, cystic duct |
| cyt/o | cell |
| ethm/o | ethmoid bone |
| gluc/o | glucose |
| glyc/o | sugars |
| hydr/o | hydrogen, water |
| ket/o, keton/o | keytone, acetone |
| lip/o | fat (outside of a blood vessel) |
| nucle/o | nucleus |
| plasma, plasmo | formative, plasma |
| salping/o | tube |
| sider/o | iron |
| somat/o | body |
| squam/o | scale, squamous (meaning scaly) |
| syring/o | tube |