Roots and Combining Forms

Audi/0Hearing

Bio

life

Caus, Cautburn

Clas, ClastBreak

Duct: Lead

Ectas

Dilate

EdemSwelling

Esthes:Sensation

Gen/oProducing

Mating

Producing

Babies

Iatr/oTreatment

Kin/e, Kin/oMovement, motion

lysis, lys/o, lyticbreaking down

Morph/oForm, structure, shape

Op/ia, ops/ia, opsyvision

Pathdisease

Phageeating

Phasspeech

Philaffinity

Plegia paralysis

Poiesisformation

Schistosplit

Troph/o- Nourishment or food

Brachy- Short

Brady- Slow

Cry/o - Cold

Crypt/o hidden

DEXTR/ORIGHT, RIGHT SIDE

Dolich/o long

GLYC/O-,GLUC/OSUGAR SWEET

HETER/O- OTHER DIFFERENT

Hom/eo-hom/o same, alike

HYDROwet, water, fluid

ISOequal, alike

LEPTOslender, small, thin

Lept/o

Slender, small thin

LEVOleft, to the left

Always stand on what side of the horse??

Lev/o

Left, to the left

Macr/o

Large

MACROlarge

Mal

ill, bad

MALill, bad

MALACOsoft, softening

AWWWWWWWW

Malac/o

Soft, softening

Mega

large, oversized

Necr/o : death

Olig/o

few, little

Orth/o

straight, normal, right

Pachy

thick

Pale/o :

Oldor

Primitive

Platy/oFlat, wide

Platypus!

Poikil/o-irregular, varying

poikilocytosis

Scler/o- hardness

sinistr/o- left, to the left

Sten/o- narrow, contracted

Stere/o- solid, three dimentional

tachy- rapid, fast

Tel/e-, Tel/o- distant, end

End brain,

Therm/o : heat

Xer/o : dry

Aqua, hydro: water

Chol/e, chol/o : bile

Chyle, chyl/o: milky fluid –product of digestion

Dacry/o, lacrima : tears

Galact/o, lact/o : milk

Hem/a, hemat/o, hem/o : blood

Hidr/o, sudor : sweat

Lymph/o : lymph

Mucus-secretion of mucous membranes

Myx/o

• MUCUS

Plasma• Liquid component of blood.

Ptyal/o- saliva

Pusliquid product of inflammation

PY/OPUS

Sangui

Serum

• The clear liquid that can be separated from clotted blood. Serum differs from plasma, the liquid portion of normal unclotted blood containing the red and white cells and platelets. It is the clot that makes the difference between serum and plasma.

Sialo

Urea

• Certain reactions produce ammonia, which is harmful to the body. After the ammonia is absorbed into the blood, the blood gets filtered through the liver, where the ammonia is combined with carbon dioxide to change it into urea and water. Urea in the blood then gets filtered through the kidneys, where the urea gets combined with water to produce urine, which gets excreted through the bladder.

Adipo

amyl/o-

starch

Cerumen, cerumin/oEarwax

collagenFibrous protein of connective tissue, cartilage, bone, and skin

Ele/o, ole/o

oil

Ferrum, ferr/oiron

Gluc/o, glyc/o, sacchar/o, saccar/I : sugar

Hal/o : salt

Heme : iron based pigment of hemoglobin

Hormone: body produced chemical substance

Hyal/o, hyalin : glassy translucent substance

Lip/o, lipid : fat, fatty acids

Lith/o : stone or calculus

Mel/I : honey or sugar

Natrium : sodium

Petrous : stoney hardness

Sal : salt

Sebum : sebaceous gland secretion

Albus, alba, alb:White

Chlor/o, chloros:Green

Chrom/o, chromat/oColor (as compared with no color)

CirrhosOrange/yellow

cyan/oblue

Erythr/ored

Leuc/o, leuk/owhite

LuteinSaffron yellow

Melan/oblack

Photolight

Poli/oGray (relating to the gray matter

of the nervous system)

Rhod/ored

Ruber, ruborRed, redness

This salamander is called a rubor rubor

Xanth/o: Yellow or yellowish

Xanthostemon chrysanthus