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Root words/2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| kinesi/o | movement |
| kyph/o | hump |
| lacrim/o | tear |
| lact/o | milk |
| limin/o | lamina (a thin plate, scale, or layer) |
| laryng/o | larynx |
| lob/o | lobe |
| lord/o | curve |
| lumb/o | lumbar (lower back) |
| lute/o | yellow |
| lymphaden/o | lymph gland |
| mamm/o | breast |
| mandibul/o | mandible (lower jawbone) |
| mast/o | breast |
| maxill/o | maxilla (upper jawbone) |
| meat/o | meatus (an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant) |
| men/o | menstruation, month |
| mening/o, meningi/o | meninges |
| menisc/o, menisci/o | meniscus (a disk of cartilage between the articulating ends of the bones in a joint) |
| ment | mind |
| metacarp/o | metacarpals (hand) |
| metatars/o | metatarsals (foot) |
| metr/o | uterus, measure |
| metr/i | uterus |
| mon/o | one |
| muc/o | mucus |
| my/o, muscul/o | muscle |
| myc/o | fungus |
| myel/o | bone marrow, spinal cord |
| myring/o | ear drum |
| myx/o | mucus |
| nas/o | nose |
| nat/a, nat/i | birth |
| natr/o | sodium |
| necr/o | death |
| nephr/o | kidney |
| neur/o | nerve |
| noct/i | night |
| ocul/o | eye |
| olecran/o | olecranon (elbow) |
| olig/o | scant, few |
| onych/o | nail |
| oo/o | egg |
| oophor/o | ovary |
| ophthalm/o | eye |
| opt/o | eye, vision |
| optic/o | eye |
| orchi/i, orch/o, orchi/o, orchid/o | testicle |
| orth/o | straight |
| ot/o | ear |
| ov/o | egg |
| ovari/o | ovary |
| ovul/o | ovulation |
| ox/i, ox/o | oxygen |
| oxy/o | oxygen |
| oxy/o | oxygen |
| pachy/o | thick |
| palat/o | palate |
| palpebr/o | eyelid |
| pancreat/o | pancreas |
| papill/o | optic nerve |
| patell/o | patella (kneecap) |
| pelv/i | pelvis (hip) |
| pericardi/o | pericardium (the membranous sac enclosing the heart) |
| perine/o | perineum (the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male) |
| petr/o | stone |
| phac/o | eye lens |
| phak/o | eye lens |
| phalang/o | phalanges (finger or toe) |
| pharyng/o | pharynx |
| phas/o | speech |
| phleb/o | vein |
| phren/o | mind, diaphragm |
| phys/o | growing |
| pil/o | hair |
| pituitar/o | pituitary gland |
| pleur/o | pleura (a delicate serous membrane investing each lung in mammals and folded back as a lining of the corresponding side of the thorax) |
| pneumat/o | lung/air |
| pneumon/o | lung/air |
| poli/o | gray matter |
| polyp/o | polyp |
| pont/o | pons (Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum) |
| pub/o | pubis |
| pulmon/o | lung |
| pupill/o | pupil |
| py/o | pus |
| pyel/o | renal pelvis (a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter) |
| pylor/o | pylorus (the opening between the stomach and the duodenum) |
| rachi/o | spine |
| radic/o, radicul/o | nerve root |
| ren/o | kidney |
| retin/o | retina |
| rhin/o | nose |
| rhiz/o | nerve root |
| rhytid/o | wrinkle |
| rube/o | red |
| sacr/o | sacrum |
| salping/o | uterine tube, fallopian tube |
| scapul/o | scapula (shoulder) |
| scler/o | sclera (a dense, white, fibrous membrane that, with the cornea, forms the external covering of the eyeball) |
| scoli/o | bent |
| seb/o | sebum/oil |
| semin/i | semen |
| sept/o | septum (a dividing wall, membrane, or the like, in a plant or animal structure) |
| sigmoid/o | sigmoid colon |
| somat/o | body |
| son/o | sound |
| sperm/o, spermat/o | sperm |
| sphygm/o | pulse |
| spir/o | breath |
| splen/o | spleen |
| spondyl/o | vertebra |
| staped/o | middle ear, stapes |
| staphyl/o | clusters |
| ster/o, stere/o | solid, having three dimensions |
| stern/o | sternum (breast bone) |
| strept/o | twisted chain |
| synovi/o | synovial joint membrane |
| tars/o | tarsal (ankle) |
| ten/o | tendon |
| tend/o, tendin/o | tendon (connective tissue) |
| test/o | testicle |
| thorac/o | thorax (chest) |
| thromb/o | clot |
| thym/o | thymus gland |
| thyr/o, thyroid/o | thyroid gland |
| tibi/o | shin bone |
| toc/o | childbirth |
| tonsill/o | tonsil |
| top/o | place |
| tox/o, toxic/o | poison |
| trache/o | trachea |
| trich/o | hair |
| tympan/o | eardrum |
| uln/o | ulna (lower arm bone) |
| ungu/o | nail |
| ur/o | urine |
| ureter/o | ureter |
| urethr/o | urethra |
| urin/o | urine |
| uter/o | uterus |
| uve/o | uvea (the vascular middle layer of the eye constituting the iris, ciliary body, and choroid) |
| valv/o, valvul/o | valve |
| vas/o, vascul/o | vessel |
| ven/o | vein |
| ventricul/o | ventricle |
| vertebr/o | vertebra |
| vesic/o | bladder |
| vesicul/o | seminal vesicles (either of two small saclike glands, located on each side of the bladder in males, that add nutrient fluid to semen during ejaculation) |
| vitre/o | glass/glassy |
| vulv/o | vulva |
| xer/o | dry |
| xanth/o | yellow |
| osche/o | relating to the scrotum |
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