Word Building 2
Terms
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- immun/o
- protection
- glyc/o
- sugar
- gloss/o
- tongue
- flex/o
- to bend
- dactyl/o
- figers and toes
- norm/o
- rule, order
- nect/o
- to bind, tie, connect
- nati/o
- birth
- mort/o
- death
- furc/o
- forking, branching
- duct/o
- to lead, carry
- carp/o
- wrist bones
- cib/o
- meals
- cost/o
- rib
- cutane/o
- skin
- ox/o
- oxygen
- seps/o
- infection
- somn/o
- sleep
- son/o
- sound
- the/o
- to put, place
- thyr/o
- shield
- top/o
- place, position, location
- tox/o
- poison
- urethr/o
- urethra
- aden/o
- gland
- bi/o
- life
- carcin/o
- cancerous, cancer
- arthr/o
- joint
- cardi/o
- heart
- cyt/o
- cell
- electr/o
- electricity
- encephal/o
- brain
- enter/o
- intestines
- gastr/o
- stomach
- gnos/o
- knowledge
- gynec/o
- female, woman
-
hemat/o
hem/o - blood
- hepat/o
- liver
- iatr/o
- treatment
- leuk/o
- white
- nephr/o
- kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- onc/o
- tumor
- ophthalm/o
- eye
- oste/o
- bone
- path/o
- disease
- ped/o
- child
- psych/o
- mind
- radi/o
- x-rays
- ren/o
- kidney
- rhin/o
- nose
- sarc/o
- flesh
- abdomin/o
- abdomen
-
derm/o
dermat/o - skin
- chrom/o
- color
- coccyg/o
- coccyx (tailbone)
- dist/o
- far, distant
- dors/o
- back portion of the body
- ili/o
- ilium
- later/o
- side
- nucle/o
- nucleus
- spin/o
- spine, backbone
- trache/o
- trachea, windpipe
- umbilic/o
- navel, umbilicus
- cis/o
- to cut
- crin/o
- secrete
- thorac/o
- chest
- cephal/o
- head
- cerebr/o
- cerebrum
- cyst/o
- urinary bladder; a sac or cyst
- cervic/o
- neck
- erythr/o
- red
- medi/o
- middle
- pelv/o
- hip, pelivic cavity
- anteri/o
- artery
- chem/o
- drug, chemical
- ur/o
- urinary tract
- poster/o
- back, behind
- thromb/o
- clot, clotting
- adip/o
- fat
- bol/o
- to cast (throw)
- chondr/o
- cartilage
- crani/o
- skull
- hist/o
- tissue
- inguin/o
- groin
- kary/o
- nucleus
- lumb/o
- lower back
- proxim/o
- nearest
- sacr/o
- sacrum
- thel/o
- nipple
- sect/o
- to cut
- ventr/o
- vertebraee, backbone
- viscer/o
- internal organs
- acr/o
- extremities, top, extreme point
- acu/o
- sharp, severe, sudden
- agor/a
- marketplace
- amni/o
- amnion (sac surrounding the embryo in the uterus)
- angi/o
- vessel
- axill/o
- armpit
- anter/o
- front
- blephar/o
- eyelid
- bronch/o
- bronchial tubes
- chron/o
- time
- col/o
- colon (large intestine)
- hydr/o
- water, fluid
- isch/o
- to hold back
- lapar/o
- abdomen, abdoinal wall
- laryng/o
- larynx (voice box)
- lymph/o
- lymph
-
mamm/o
mast/o - breast
- morph/o
- shape
- muc/o
- mucus
- myel/o
- spinal cord, bone marrow
- my/o
- muscle
- necr/o
- death
- neutr/o
- neutrophil
- peritone/o
- peritoneum
- phag/o
- to eat, swallow
-
phelb/o
ven/o - vein
- plas/o
- formation, development
- pleur/o
- pleura
-
pneumon/o
pulmon/o - lungs
- rect/o
- rectum
- splen/o
- spleen
- staphyl/o
- cluster
- strept/o
- twisted chains
- tonsill/o
- tonsils
- ven/o
- vein
- -er
- one way
- -ia
- condition
- -ist
- specialist
- -ole, -ule
- little, small
- -ac, -al, -ic, -ical
- pertaining to (pt.)
- -algia
- pain
- -cyte
- cell
- -ectomy
- removal, excision
- -emia
- blood condition
- -genic
- pertaining to, producing, produced by, or produced in
- -gram
- record
- -ion
- process
- -itis
- inflammation
- -logy
- study of
- -oma
- tumor, mass, swelling
- -opsy
- to view
- -osis
- condition, usually abnormal
- -pathy
- disease condition
- -scope
- instrument to visually examine
- -scopy
- process of visually examining
- -sis
- state of
- -tomy
- process of cutting, incision
- -y
- process, condition
- -eal, -iac, -ior, -ose
- pertaining to (pt.)
- -ism
- process
- -plasm
- formation
- -somes
- bodies
- -type
- picture, classification
- -graph
- instrument for recording
- -graphy
- process of recording
- -cele
- hernia
- -centesis
- surgical puncture to remove fluid
- -coccus
- berry-shaped bacterium
- -dynia
- pain
- -genesis
- condition of producing, forming
- -lysis
- breakdown, seperation, loosening
- -malacia
- softening
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -penia
- deficiency
- -phobia
- fear
- -plasia
- development, formation, growth
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -ptosis
- drooping, sag, prolapse
- -sclerosis
- hardening
- -stasis
- stop, control, place
- -stomy
- opening to form a mouth
- -therapy
- treatment
- -um, -ium
- structure, tissue, thing
- -oid
- resembling
- -blast
- embryonic, immature
- -cyesis
- pregnancy
- -drome
- to run
- -fusion
- to pour
- -gen
- producing, forming
- -lapse
- to slide, fall, sag
- -meter
- to measure
- -mission
- to send
- -or
- one who
- -partum
- birth, labor
- -phoria
- to bear, carry; feeling
- -physis
- to grow
- -pnea
- breathing
- -rrhea
- flow, discharge
- an-, a-
- no, not, or without
- auto-
- self
- dia-
- through, complete
- endo-
- within
- epi-
- above, upon