1- Word Roots Flashcards
afferent
going towards
arthr/o
joint
bacteri/o
bacteria
bio
life
blast
rapidly dividing cell
carc/i
carc/in
carc/ino
cancer (Greek word that literally means “crab”)
card/i
card/io
heart
caud/o
tail
cephal/o
head
chole
bile (bodily humor in Greek medical practice)
constrict
sten/o
narrowing; decreasing the size of an opening (constriction is generally normal where stenosis is generally abnormal)
cyst/o
bladder, fluid-filled space
dilate
increasing the size of an opening
efferent
going away from
eti/o
how something came to be, from Greek aitia, “cause” + o + -logy
enceph/a
encephal/o
en- + -cephal- head, “inside the head”
gastr/o
stomach
gen/o
cause, origin
genetic
inheritance
hem/o
hemat/o
blood
hepat/o
liver
hydr/o
water
idio
private, distinct (unknown to others)
morph/o
change
muscul/o
my/o
muscle
myc/o
fungus
necr/o
dead
neur/o
nervous system
orth/o
straight, at right angles
ost/e
ost/eo
bone
path/o
disease (literally, “suffering”)
ped/o
children
phag/o
eating
plas/o
formation
py/o
pus
sarc/o
flesh, muscle
scler/o
hard
stom/a/t
mouth
therm/o
temperature
troph/o
nourishment (e.g. a trophy is nourishment for a job well done)
trop/o
moving towards or acting on
ur
urine
valv/ulo
valve
