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Adjectival Roots and Combining Forms Flashcards

1
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Brachy/o-

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Short

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Brady-

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Slow

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Brev/i-

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Short

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Cry/o-

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Cold

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Crypt/o-

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Hidden

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Dextr/o-

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Right, right side

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Dipl/o-

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Double, twice

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Dolich/o-

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Long

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9
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Glyc/o-, gluc/o-

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Sugar or sweet

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Heter/o-

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Other, different

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Hom/eo-, hom/o-

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Same, alike

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12
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Hydr/o-

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Water, wet, fluid

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Is/o-

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Equal, alike

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Lept/o-

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Slender, small, thin

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Lev/o-

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Left, to the left

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Macr/o-

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Large

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Mal-

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Ill, bad

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Malac/o-

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Soft or hardening

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Meg/a, meg/alo, megaly-

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Large, oversided

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Necr/o-

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Death

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21
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Olig/o-

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Few, little

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22
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Pachy-

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Thick

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23
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Pale/o

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Old, primitive

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Platy-

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Flat, wide

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Ple/o

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More, many

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Poikil/o-

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Irregular, varied

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Sinister/o-

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Left, to the left

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Sten/o-

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Narrow, contracted

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Stere/o-

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Solid, three-dimensional

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30
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Tachy-

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Rapid, fast

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31
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Tel/e, tel/o-

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Distant, end

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32
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Therm/o-

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Heat

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33
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Xer/o-

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dry

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34
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Audi/o

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Hearing

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35
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Gen/o

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Producing

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36
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Kin/o

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Movement, motion

37
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Morph/o

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Form, structure, shape

38
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Phag/o

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Form, structure, shape

39
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Phag/o

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Eating

40
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Schist/o, schiz/o

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Split, cleft, division

41
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Spasm/o

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Spasm

42
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Troph/o

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Nourishment, food

43
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Aqua, hydr/o

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Water

44
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Chol/e, chol/o

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Bile

45
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Chyle, chyl/o

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Milky fluid – product of digestion

46
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Dacry/o, lacrima

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Tears

47
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Galact/o, lact/o

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Milk

48
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Hem/a, hemat/o, hem/o

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Blood

49
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Hidr/o

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Sweat

50
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Lymph/o

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Lymph

51
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Mucus, muc/o

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Secretions of the mucus membranes

52
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Myx/o

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mucus

53
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Ptyal/o

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Saliva

54
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Pus

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Liquid product of inflammation

55
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Py/o

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pus

56
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Sanguin/o

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Bloody

57
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Serum, ser/o

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Clear portion of blood fluid

58
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Sial/o

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Saliva, salivary glands

59
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Ur/o

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Urine

60
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Adip/o

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Fat, adipose tissue

61
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Amyl/o

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Starch

62
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Cerumen, cerumin/o

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Earwax

63
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Ele/o, ole/o

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Oil

64
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Ferr/o

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Iron

65
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Lip/o

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Fat

66
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Hyal/o

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Glassy, translucent substance

67
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Gluco-, glyc/o, sacchar/o, sacchar/i

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Sugar

68
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Lith/o

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Stone or calculus

69
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Mel/i

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Honey or sugar

70
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Heme

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Iron-based, pigment part of haemoglobin

71
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Hormone

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Body producing chemical substance

72
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Natrium

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Sodium

73
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Petrous

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Stony hardness

74
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Sal

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Salt

75
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Sebum

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Sebaceous gland secretion

76
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Albus, alba, alb-

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White

77
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Chlor/o, chloros

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Green

78
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Chrom/o, chromat/o

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Color (as compared with no color)

79
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Cyan/o

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Blue

80
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Erythr/o

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Red

81
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Leuc/o, leuk/o

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White

82
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Melan/o

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Black

83
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Phot/o

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Light

84
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Poli/o

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Gray (relating to gray matter of the nervous system)

85
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Rhod/o

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Red

86
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Xanth/o

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Yellow, yellowish

87
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Leutin

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Saffron yellow

88
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Ruber, rubor

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Red, redness

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