Chapter 1: Vocabulary: Combined Form

Question 1

ACANTH-

Answer 1

thorn, spine

Question 2

ALG-

Answer 2

pain

Question 3

ALGES

Answer 3

sensitivity to pain

Question 4

ALL-

Answer 4

other

Question 5

ANGI-

Answer 5

(blood) vessel, duct

Question 6

ARTERI-

Answer 6

[air passage] artery

Question 7

ARTHR-

Answer 7

joint

Question 8

BI-

Answer 8

life

Question 9

BRADY-

Answer 9

slow

Question 10

CARDI-

Answer 10

heart

Question 11

CEPHAL-

Answer 11

head

Question 12

CRANI-

Answer 12

skull

Question 13

CYT-

Answer 13

[hollow container] cell

Question 14

ENCEPHAL-

Answer 14

brain (a combination of en, in, and kephale head)

Question 15

ERYTHR-

Answer 15

red, red blood cell

Question 16

LEPT-

Answer 16

thin, fine, slight

Question 17

LEUK-

Answer 17

white, white blood cell

Question 18

LITH-

Answer 18

stone

Question 19

LOG-

Answer 19

word, study

Question 20

MALAC-

Answer 20

soft

Question 21

MES-

Answer 21

middle, secondary, partial, mesentery

Question 22

-METER, METR

Answer 22

measure, measuring device (ending in -meter usually a measuring device)

Question 23

NEPHR-

Answer 23

kidney

Question 24

NEUR-

Answer 24

[tendon] nerve, nervous system

Question 25

OSTE-

Answer 25

bone

Question 26

PROSOP-

Answer 26

face

Question 27

PROT-

Answer 27

first, primitive, early

Question 28

SCLER-

Answer 28

hard

Question 29

STEN-

Answer 29

narrow

Question 30

STERE-

Answer 30

solid, having three dimensions

Question 31

TACHY-

Answer 31

rapid

Question 32

TOX(I)-

Answer 32

poison