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Med Term- Roots
Medical Terminology- Roots and Combining Forms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hearing | Audio |
| Life | Bio |
| Burn | Caus; Caut |
| Break | Clas; Clast |
| Lead | Duct |
| Dilate | Ectas |
| Swelling (fluid accumulation in the tissue) | Edem |
| Sensation | Esthes |
| Producing | Geno |
| Treatment | Iatro |
| Movement; motion | Kine; Kino |
| Breaking down | Lysis; Lyso |
| Form; structure; shape | Morpho |
| Vision | Opia; opsia; opsy |
| Disease | Path |
| Eating | Phage |
| Speech | Phas |
| Affinity | Phil |
| Paralysis | Plegia |
| Formation | Poiesis |
| Split | Schisto |
| Spasm | Spasmo |
| Standing still; stopping | Stasis |
| Nourishment or food | Tropho |
| Short | Brachy |
| Slow | Brady |
| Short | Brevi |
| Cold | Cryo |
| Hidden | Crypto |
| Right; right side | Dextro |
| Double; twice | Diplo |
| Long | Dolicho |
| Sugar sweet | Gluco; glyco |
| Other; different | Hetero |
| Same; alike | Homeo; homo |
| Wet; water; fluid | Hydro |
| Equal; alike | Iso |
| Slender; small; thin | Lepto |
| Left; to the left | Levo |
| Large | Macro |
| Ill; bad | Mal |
| Soft; softening | Malaco |
| Large; oversized | Mega |
| Death | Necro |
| Few; little | Oligo |
| Straight; normal; right | Ortho |
| Thick | Pachy |
| Old; primitive | Paleo |
| Flat; wide | Platyo |
| Many; more | Pleo |
| Irregular; varying | Poikilo |
| Hardness | Sclero |
| Left; to the left | Sinistro |
| Narrow; contracted | Steno |
| Solid; three- dimensional | Stereo |
| Rapid; fast | Tachy |
| Distant; end | Tele; Telo |
| Heat | Thermo |
| Dry | Xero |
| Water | Hydro; aqua |
| Bile | Chole; cholo |
| Milky fluid-product of digestion | Chyle; chylo |
| Tears | Dacryo; lacrima |
| Milk | Galacto; lacto |
| Blood | Hema; hemato; hemo |
| Sweat | Hidro; sudor |
| Lymph | Lympho |
| Secretion of mucous membranes | Mucus |
| Mucus (not commonly used) | Myxo |
| Liquid component of blood | Plasma |
| Saliva | Ptyal |
| Liquid production of inflammation (dead WBCs) | Pus |
| Pus | Pyo |
| Blood | Sangui |
| Fluid portion of blood without clotting factors because they have been used | Serum |
| Salivary glands | Sialo |
| Liver | Urea |
| Fat | Adipo |
| Starch | Amylo |
| Ear wax | Cerumen; Cerumeno |
| Fibrous protein of connective tissue, cartilage, bone, and skin | Collagen |
| Oil | Eleo; Oleo |
| Iron | Ferrum; ferro |
| Sugar | Gluco; glyco; saccari; saccharo |
| Salt | Halo |
| Iron based pigment of hemoglobin | Heme |
| Body produced chemical substance | Hormone |
| Glassy, translucent substance | Hyalo; hyaline |
| Fat; fatty acids | Lipo; lipid |
| Stone or calculus | Litho |
| Honey or sugar | Meli |
| Sodium | Natrium |
| Stoney hardness | Petrous |
| Salt | Sal |
| Sebaceous gland secretion | Sebum |
| White | Albus; alba; alb |
| Green | Chloro; chloros |
| Color (as compared with no color) | Chromo; chromato |
| Orange yellow | Cirrhos |
| Blue | Cyano |
| Red | Erythro |
| White | Leuco; leuko |
| Saffron yellow | Lutein |
| Black | Melano |
| Light | Photo |
| Gray (Relating to gray matter of the nervous system) | Polio |
| Red | Rhodo |
| Red; redness | Ruber; rubor |
| Yellow; yellowish | Xantho |
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