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VT123 roots IV
Veterinary Terminology - adjectival roots and combining forms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| brachy- | short |
| brady- | slow |
| brev/i- | short |
| cry/o- | cold |
| crypt/o- | hidden |
| dextr/o- | right, right side |
| dipl/o- | double, twice |
| dolich/o- | long |
| glyc/o-, gluc/o- | sugar, sweet |
| heter/o- | other, different |
| hom/eo-, hom/o- | same, alike |
| hydr/o- | wet, water, fluid |
| is/o- | equal, alike |
| lept/o- | slender, small, thing |
| lev/o- | left, to the left |
| macr/o- | large |
| mal- | ill, bad |
| malac/o- | soft, softening |
| meg/a-, meg/alo-, meg/aly- | large, oversized |
| necr/o- | death |
| olig/o- | few, little |
| orth/o- | straight, normal, correct |
| pachy- | thick |
| pale/o- | old, primitive |
| platy- | flat, wide |
| ple/o- | more, many |
| poikil/o- | irregular, varied |
| -scler/o- | hardness |
| sinistr/o- | left, to the left |
| sten/o- | narrow, contracted |
| stere/o- | solid, three-dimensional |
| tachy- | rapid, fast |
| tel/e-, tel/o- | distant, end |
| therm/o- | heat |
| xer/o- | dry |