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VT-IBC-02-2012
Terminology, Completing the Foundation, Chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| audi/o- | hearing |
| bio- | life |
| caus- | burn |
| caut- | burn |
| -clas- | break |
| -clast | break |
| duct- | lead |
| -ectas- | dilate |
| -edem- | swelling |
| -esthes- | sensation |
| gen/o- | producing |
| -iatr/o- | treatment |
| kin/e- | movement, motion |
| kin/o- | movement, motion |
| -lysis | breaking down |
| -lys/o- | breaking down |
| -lytic | breaking down |
| morph/o- | form, structure, shape |
| -op/ia | vision |
| -ops/ia | vision |
| -opsy | vision |
| -path- | disease |
| -pathy | disease |
| -phage | eating |
| phag/o- | eating |
| -phas- | speech |
| -phil | affinity, love for |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -poiesis | formation, production |
| schist/o- | split, cleft, divsion |
| schiz/o- | split, cleft, division |
| spasm/o- | spasm |
| -stasis | standing still, stoppage |
| troph/o- | nourishment, food |
| 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- | sugar, sweet |
| gluc/o- | sugar, sweet |
| heter/o- | other, different |
| hom/eo- | same, alike |
| hom/o- | same, alike |
| hydr/o- | wet, water, fluid |
| is/o- | equal, alike |
| lept/o- | slender, small, thin |
| lev/o- | left, to the left |
| macr/o- | large |
| mal- | ill, bad |
| malac/o- | soft, softening |
| meg/a- | large, oversized |
| meg/alo- | large, oversized |
| 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- | distant, end |
| tel/o- | distant, end |
| therm/o- | heat |
| xer/o- | dry |
| aqua | water |
| chol/e- | bile |
| chol/o- | bile |
| chyle | milky fluid, product of digestion |
| chyl/o- | milky fluid, product of digestion |
| dacry/o- | tears |
| lacrima | tears |
| galact/o- | milk |
| lact/o- | milk |
| hem/a- | blood |
| hemat/o- | blood |
| hem/o- | blood |
| hidr/o- | sweat |
| sudor | sweat |
| lymph/o- | lymph |
| mucus | mucus |
| muco- | mucus |
| myx/o- | mucus |
| plasma | plasma |
| ptyal/o- | saliva |
| pus | pus |
| py/o- | pus |
| sangui- | blood, bloody |
| sanguin/o- | blood, bloody |
| serum | serum |
| ser/o- | serum |
| sial/o- | saliva, salivary glands |
| ur/e- | urine or urea |
| ur/ea- | urine or urea |
| ur/eo- | urine or urea |
| ur/ino- | urine or urea |
| ur/o- | urine or urea |
| adip/o- | fat |
| amyl/o- | starch |
| cerumen | earwax |
| cerumin/o- | earwax |
| collagen | collagen |
| ele/o- | oil |
| ole/o- | oil |
| ferrum | iron |
| ferr/o- | iron |
| gluco- | sugar |
| glyc/o- | sugar |
| sacchar/o- | sugar |
| sacchar/i- | sugar |
| hal/o- | salt |
| heme | iron based, piment part of hemoglobin |
| hormone | hormone |
| hyal/o- | glassy, translucent substance |
| hyalin | glassy, translucent substance |
| lip/o- | fat, fatty acids |
| lipid | fat, fatty acids |
| lith/o- | stone or calculus |
| mel/i- | honey or sugar |
| natrium | sodium |
| petrous | stony hardness |
| sal | salt |
| sebum | sebum |
| albus | white |
| alba | white |
| alb- | white |
| chlor/o | green |
| chloros | green |
| chrom/o- | color |
| chomat/o- | color |
| cirrhos | orange-yellow |
| cyan/o- | blue |
| erythr/o- | red |
| leuc/o- | white |
| leuk/o- | white |
| lutein | saffron yellow |
| melan/o- | black |
| photo- | light |
| poli/o- | gray |
| rhod/o- | red |
| ruber | red, redness |
| rubor | red, redness |
| xanth/o- | yellow, yellowish |