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Word Roots and Combining Forms

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Term
Definition
aer   air, gas  
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athero   plaque, fatty substance (inside of blood vessel)  
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blast   immature cells  
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calc, calci   calcium  
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chondrio, chondro   cartilage, grainy, gritty  
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chyl   chyle, a digestive juice  
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chym   chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach  
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cyst, cysti   bladder, cyst, cystic duct  
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cyt   cell  
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ethm   ethmoid bone  
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gluc   glucose  
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glyc   sugars  
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hydr   hydrogen, water  
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ket, keton   ketone, acetone  
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lip   fat (outside of blood vessel)  
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nucle   nucleus  
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plasma, plasmo   formative, plasma  
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salping   tube  
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sider   iron  
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somat   body  
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squam   scale, squamous (meaning scaly)  
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syring   tube  
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algesi, algi, alg   pain  
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cry   cold  
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dips   thirst  
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esthesi   sensation, perception  
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kin, kine   movement  
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kinesi, kenes   motion  
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phon   sound, voice, speech  
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phot   light  
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son   sound  
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therm   heat  
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acanth   spiny, thorny  
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andro   masculine  
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chlor   chlorine, green  
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chrom, chromat   color  
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crypt   hidden, obscure  
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cyan   blue  
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eosin   red  
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erythr   red, redness  
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granul   granular  
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gyn, gyne, gynec   women  
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home, hom   same, constant  
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ichthy   dry, scaly, fishy  
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idi   distinct, unknown  
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immun   safe, immune  
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leuk   white  
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macro   large, long  
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meg, megal   large, million  
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melan   black, dark  
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micr   small, tiny  
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mio   smaller, less  
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morph   structure, shape  
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norm   normal  
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physi   physical, natural  
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pseud   false  
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scler   hardness, hardening  
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scolio   crooked, bent  
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spher   round, spherical  
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staphyl   grapelike clusters  
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sten   narrowness  
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Strept   twisted chains, streptococci  
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terat   monster (as a malformed fetus)  
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xanth   yellow  
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bacill   bacilli, bacteria  
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bacteri   bacteria  
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carcin   cancer  
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kyph   humpback  
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onch, onc   tumor  
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pachy   thick  
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path   disease  
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pyr   fever, fire, heat  
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schist   split  
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schiz   split, division  
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spasm   spasm  
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anteri   front  
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dextr   right, toward the right  
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dors   back  
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gonio   angle  
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later   lateral, to one side  
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medi   middle, medial plane  
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mes   middle, median  
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orth   straight, normal  
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top   place, topical  
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crin   secrete  
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gen   producing, being born  
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hypn   sleep  
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log   speech, words, thought  
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narc   sleep, numbness  
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phago   eating, devouring, swallowing  
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somn, somni   sleep  
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spir   breath, breathe  
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actin   light  
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amyl   starch  
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bar   weight, pressure  
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bas, basi   base  
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bio   life  
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chem   chemical  
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chrono   time  
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coni   dust  
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cycl   circle, cycle  
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dyna, dynam   force, energy  
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echo   reflected sound  
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electro   electricity  
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eti   cause  
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fibr   fiber  
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fluor   light, luminous, fluorine  
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fungi   fungus  
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galact   milk  
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ger, geront   old age  
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lact, lacti   milk  
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lith   stone  
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lys   dissolution, destruction  
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necr   death, dying  
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noct   night  
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nyct   night  
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pharmaco   drugs, medicine  
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phyt   plant  
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py   pus  
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radio   radiation, x-ray, radius  
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stere   three-dementional  
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tel, tele   distant, end, complete  
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ton   tension, pressure  
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toxi, toxic, tox   poison, toxin  
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throph   food, nutrition  
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