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What is the root word for abdomen?
abdomin/o
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What is the root word for extremities, top, extreme point?
acr/o
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What is the root word for sharp, severe, sudden?
acu/o
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What is the root word for gland?
aden/o
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What is the root word for fat?
adip/o
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What is the root word for amnion (sac surrounding the embryo in the uterus)?
amni/o
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What is the root word for vessel?
angi/o
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What is the root word for artery?
arteri/o
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What is the root word for joint?
arthr/o
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What is the root word for armpit?
axill/o
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What is the root word for life?
bi/o
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What is the root word for eyelid?
blephar/o
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What is the root word for bronchial tubes (two tubes, one right and one left, that branch
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from the trachea to enter the lungs)?
bronch/o
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What is the root word for cancer?
carcin/o
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What is the root word for heart?
cardi/o
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What is the root word for drug, chemical?
chem/o
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What is the root word for cartilage?
chondr/o
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What is the root word for time?
chron/o
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What is the root word for colon (large intestine)?
col/o
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What is the root word for urinary bladder?
cyst/o
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What is the root word for brain?
encephal/o
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What is the root word for red?
erythr/o
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What is the root word for blood?
hem/o
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What is the root word for liver?
hepat/o
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What is the root word for water/fluid?
hydr/o
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What is the root word for groin?
inguin/o
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What is the root word for to hold back?
isch/o
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What is the root word for abdomen, abdominal wall?
lapar/o
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What is the root word for larynx?
laryng/o (substitute g for x in other words that end in x; coccyx, pharynx, phalanx)
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What is the root word for white?
leuk/o
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What is the root word for lymph?
lymph/o
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What is the root word for breast? (2)
mamm/o mast/o
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What is the root word for shape, form?
morph/o
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What is the root word for mucus?
muc/o
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What is the root word for muscle?
my/o
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What is the root word for spinal cord, bone marrow?
myel/o
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What is the root word for death (of cells or whole body)?
necr/o
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What is the root word for kidney? (2)
nephr/o ren/o
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What is the root word for nerve?
neur/o
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What is the root word for neutrophil (a white blood cell)?
neutr/o
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What is the root word for nucleus?
nucle/o
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What is the root word for eye?
opthalm/o
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What is the root word for bone?
oste/o
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What is the root word for ear?
ot/o
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What is the root word for disease?
path/o
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What is the root word for peritoneum?
peritone/o
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What is the root word for to eat, swallow?
phag/o
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What is the root word for vein? (2)
phleb/o ven/o
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What is the root word for formation, development?
plas/o
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What is the root word for pleura (membrane surrounding lungs and adjacent to chest wall)?
pleur/o
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What is the root word for lungs? (2)
pneumon/o pulmon/o
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What is the root word for x-rays?
radi/o
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What is the root word for rectum?
rect/o
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What is the root word for nose?
rhin/o
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What is the root word for flesh?
sarc/o
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What is the root word for spleen?
splen/o
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What is the root word for clusters?
staphyl/o
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What is the root word for twisted chains?
strept/o
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What is the root word for chest?
thorac/o
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What is the root word for clot?
thromb/o
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What is the root word for tonsils?
tonsill/o
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What is the root word for trachea (windpipe)?
trache/o
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What is the noun suffix for pain? (2)
-algia -dynia
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What is the noun suffix for hernia?
-cele
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What is the noun suffix for surgical puncture to remove fluid>
-centesis
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What is the noun suffix for berry-shaped bacterium(singular) bacteria(plural)?
-coccus (s) -cocci (pl)
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What is the noun suffix for cell?
-cyte
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What is the noun suffix for excision, removal, resection?
-ectomy
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What is the noun suffix for blood condition
-emia
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What is the noun suffix for condition of, producing, forming?
-genesis
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What is the noun suffix for record?
-gram
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What is the noun suffix for instrument for recording?
-graph
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What is the noun suffix for inflammation?
-itis
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What is the noun suffix for study of?
-logy
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What is the noun suffix for breakdown, destruction, separation?
-lysis
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What is the noun suffix for softening?
-malacia
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What is the noun suffix for enlargement?
-megaly
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What is the noun suffix for tumor, mass, collection of fluid?
-oma
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What is the noun suffix for to view?
-opsy
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What is the noun suffix for condition, usually abnormal?
-osis
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What is the noun suffix for disease condition?
-pathy
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What is the noun suffix for deficiency?
-penia
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What is the noun suffix for fear?
-phobia
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What is the noun suffix for development, formation, growth?
-plasia
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What is the noun suffix for surgical repair?
-plasty
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What is the noun suffix for drooping, falling, prolapse?
-ptosis
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What is the noun suffix for hardening?
-sclerosis
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What is the noun suffix for instrument for visual examination?
-scope
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What is the noun suffix for process of visual examination?
-scopy
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What is the noun suffix for controlling, stopping?
-statis
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What is the noun suffix for opening to form a mouth?
-stomy
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What is the noun suffix for treatment?
-therapy
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What is the noun suffix for incision, cutting into?
-tomy
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What is the noun suffix for development, nourishment?
-trophy
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What is the noun suffix for one who?
-er (radiographer)
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What is the noun suffix for condition?
-ia (leukemia)
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What is the noun suffix for specialist?
-ist
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What is the noun suffix for little, small? (2)
-ole (arteriole) -ule (venule)
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What is the noun suffix for structure, tissue? (2)
-um, -ium
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What is the noun suffix for structure, substance?
-us (mucus)
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What is the noun suffix for condition, process?
-y (nephropathy)
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What is the adjective suffix for pertaining to? (11)
-ac, -iac (cardiac), -al (pleural), -ar (tonsilar), -ary (pulmonary), -eal (laryngeal), -
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genic (carcinogenic), -ic (chronic), -ical (pathological), -ous (mucous), -tic (necrotic)
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What is the adjective suffix for resembling, derived from?
-oid (adenoids)
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What is the adjective suffix for pertaining to, full of?
-ose (adipose)
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What is the root word for wrist bones?
carp/o
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What is the root word for meals?
cib/o
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What is the root word for to cut?
cis/o
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What is the root word for rib?
cost/o
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What is the root word for skin?
cutane/o
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What is the root word for fingers, toes?
dactyl/o
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What is the root word for to lead, carry?
duct/o
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What is the root word for to bend?
flex/o
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What is the root word for forking, branching?
furc/o
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What is the root word for tongue?
gloss/o
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What is the root word for sugar?
glyc/o
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What is the root word for protection?
immun/o
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What is the root word for shape, form?
morph/o
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What is the root word for death?
mort/o
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What is the root word for birth?
nat/i
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What is the root word for to bind, tie, connect?
nect/o
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What is the root word for rule, order?
norm/o
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What is the root word for oxygen?
ox/o
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What is the root word for pubis?
pub/o
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What is the root word for infection?
seps/o
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What is the root word for sleep?
somn/o
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What is the root word for sound?
son/o
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What is the root word for to put, place?
the/o
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What is the root word for nipple? (2)
thel/o, theli/o
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What is the root word for thyroid gland, shield?
thyr/o
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What is the root word for place, position, location?
top/o
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What is the root word for poison?
tox/o
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What is the root word for windpipe, trachea
trache/o
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What is the root word for urethra?
urethr/o
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What is the suffix for embryonic, immature?
-blast
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What is the suffix for to secrete?
-crine
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What is the suffix for to run?
-drome
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What is the suffix for coming together; to pour?
-fusion
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What is the suffix for substance that produces?
-gen
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What is the suffix for to slide, fall, sag?
-lapse
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What is the suffix for breakdown, destruction, separation?
-lysis
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What is the suffix for to measure?
-meter
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What is the suffix for to send?
-mission
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What is the suffix for one who?
-or
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What is the suffix for oxygen?
-oxia
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What is the suffix for birth, labor?
-partum
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What is the suffix for to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)?
-phoria
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What is the suffix for to grow?
-physis
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What is the suffix for development, formation, growth?
-plasia
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What is the suffix for structure or foundation?
-plasm
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What is the suffix for breathing
-pnea
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What is the prefix for no, not without? (2)
-a, -an (apnea) continue on p109
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