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ch. 4
verbal roots and combining forms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| audio | hearing |
| bio | life |
| caus caut | burn |
| clas clast | break |
| duct | lead |
| ectas | dilate |
| edem | swelling |
| esthes | sensation |
| gen | producing |
| latr | treatment |
| kin | movement |
| lysis lys lytic | breaking down |
| morph | form, structure, shape |
| op ops opsy | vision |
| path pathy | disease |
| phage phag | eating |
| phas | speech |
| phil | affinity love for |
| plegia | paralysis |
| poiesis | formation production |
| schist schiz | split, cleft, division |
| spasm | spasm |
| stasis | standing still, stoppage |
| troph | nourishment, food |
| brachy | short |
| brady | slow |
| brev | short |
| cry | cold |
| crypt | hidden |
| dextr | right, right side |
| dipl | double twice |
| dolich | long |
| glyc gluc | sugar, sweet |
| heter | other, different |
| hom/eo hom/o | same, alike |
| hydr | wet, water, fluid |
| is | equal, alike |
| lept | slender, small, thin |
| lev | left, to the left |
| macr | large |
| mal | ill, bad |
| malac | soft, softening |
| meg | large, oversized |
| necr | death |
| olig | few, little |
| orth | straight, normal correct |
| pachy | thick |
| pale | old, primitive |
| platy | flat, wide |
| ple | more, many |
| poikil | irregular, varied |
| scler | hardness |
| sinister | left, to the left |
| sten | narrow, contracted |
| stere | solid, three dimensional |
| tachy | rapid, fast |
| tel | distance |
| therm | heat |