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Med Term- Roots
Medical Terminology- Roots and Combining Forms
Question | Answer |
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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 |