MT Ch1 Word Roots Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| aer/o | air, gas |
| ather/o | plaque, fatty substance (inside of a blood vessel) |
| blast/o | immature cells |
| calc/o, calci/o | calcium |
| chondri/o, chondr/o | cartilage, grainy, gritty |
| chyl/o | chyle, a digestive juice |
| chym/o | chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach |
| cyst/o, cysti | bladder, cyst, cystic duct |
| ethm/o | ethmoid bone |
| gli/o | glue |
| gluc/o | glucose |
| glyc/o | sugar |
| hydr/o | hydrogen, water |
| ket/o, keton/o | ketone, acetone |
| lip/o | fat (outside of a blood vessel) |
| nucle/o | nucleus |
| plasma, plasm/o | formative, plasma |
| salping/o | tube |
| sider/o | iron |
| somat./o | body |
| squam/o | scale, squamous (meaning scaly) |
| syring/o | tube |
| algesi/o, algi/o, alg/o | pain |
| cry/o | cold |
| dips/o | thirst |
| esthesi/o | sensation, perception |
| kin/o, kine | movement, motion |
| kinesi/o, kines/o | motion |
| phon/o | sound, voice, speech |
| phot/o | light |
| son/o | sound |
| therm/o | heat |
| acanth/o | spiny, thorny |
| andr/o | masculine |
| chlor/o | chlorine, green |
| chrom/o, chromat/o | color |
| crypt/o | hidden, obscure |
| cyan/o | blue |
| eosin/o | red |
| erythr/o | red, redness |
| granul/o | granular |
| gyn/o, gyne, gynec/o | women |
| home/o, hom/o | same, constant |
| ichthy/o | dry, scaly, fishy |
| idi/o | distinct, unknown |
| immun/o | safe, immune |
| leuk/o | white |
| macr/o | large, long |
| meg/a, megal/o | large, million |
| melan/o | black, dark |
| micr/o | small, tiny |
| mi/o | smaller, less |
| morph/o | structure, shape |
| norm/o | normal |
| physi/o | physical, natural |
| pseud/o | false |
| scler/o | hardness, hardening |
| scoli/o | crooked, bent |
| spher/o | round, spherical |
| staphyl/o | grapelike clusters |
| sten/o | narrowness |
| strept/o | twisted chains, streptococci |
| terat/o | monster (as a malformed fetus) |
| xanth/o | yellow |
| bacill/o | bacilli, bacteria |
| bacteri/o | bacteria |
| carcin/o | cancer |
| kyph/o | humpback |
| onch/o, onc/o | tumor |
| path/o | disease |
| pyr/o | fever, fire, heat |
| schist/o | split |
| schiz/o | split, division |
| spasm/o | spasm |
| anteri/o | front |
| dextr/o | right, toward the right |
| dors/o | back |
| goni/o | angle |
| later/o | lateral, to one side |
| medi/o | middle, medial plane |
| mes/o | middle, median |
| orth/o | straight, normal |
| top/o | place, topical |
| crin/o | secrete |
| gen/o | producing, being born |
| hypn/o | sleep |
| log/o | speech, words, thought |
| narc/o | sleep, numbness |
| phag/o | eating, devouring, swallowing |
| somn/o, somni | sleep |
| spir/o | breath; breathe |
| actin/o | light |
| amyl/o | starch |
| bar/o | weight, pressure |
| bas/o, basi/o | base |
| bio | life |
| chem/o | chemical |
| chrono | time |
| coni/o | dust |
| cycl/o | circle, cycle |
| dyna, dynam/o | force, energy |
| echo | reflected sound |
| electr/o | electricity |
| eti/o | cause |
| fibr/o | fiber |
| fluor/o | light, luminous, fluorine |
| fungi | fungus |
| galact/o | milk |
| ger/o, geront/o | old age |
| lact/o, lacti | milk |
| lith/o | stone |
| lys/o | dissolution, destruction |
| necr/o | death, dying |
| noct/i | night |
| nyct/o | night |
| pharmaco | drugs, medicine |
| phyt/o | plant |
| py/o | pus |
| radio | radiation, x-ray, radois |
| stere/o | three-dimensional |
| tel/o, tele/o | distant, end, complete |
| ton/o | tension, pressure |
| toxi, toxic/o, tox/o | poison, toxin |
| troph/o | food, nutrition |
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