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ch. 4
verbal roots and combining forms
Question | Answer |
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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 |