Chapter 4-Combining Forms/Suffixes

Question 1

carp/o

Answer 1

wrist bones

Question 2

cost/o

Answer 2

rib

Question 3

cutane/o

Answer 3

skin

Question 4

dactyl/o

Answer 4

fingers, toes

Question 5

duct/o

Answer 5

lead, carry

Question 6

flex/o

Answer 6

bend

Question 7

furc/o

Answer 7

branching

Question 8

gloss/o

Answer 8

tongue

Question 9

immun/o

Answer 9

protection

Question 10

mort/o

Answer 10

death

Question 11

nat/i

Answer 11

birth

Question 12

norm/o

Answer 12

rule, order

Question 13

ox/o

Answer 13

oxygen

Question 14

pub/o

Answer 14

pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic/hip bone

Question 15

seps/o

Answer 15

infection

Question 16

somn/o

Answer 16

sleep

Question 17

son/o

Answer 17

sound

Question 18

tens/o

Answer 18

force, strain, stretch

Question 19

the/o

Answer 19

put, place

Question 20

thel/o, theli/o

Answer 20

nipple

Question 21

thyr/o

Answer 21

thyroid gland

the shape of the thyroid gland resembled [-oid] a shield to those who named it

Question 22

top/o

Answer 22

place, position, location

Question 23

tox/o

Answer 23

poison

Question 24

urethr/o

Answer 24

urethra

Question 25

-crine

Answer 25

secrete

Question 26

-drome

Answer 26

run

Question 27

-fusion

Answer 27

coming together; pour

Question 28

-gen

Answer 28

substance that produces

Question 29

-lapse

Answer 29

slide, fall, sag

Question 30

-meter

Answer 30

measure

Question 31

-mission

Answer 31

send

Question 32

-or

Answer 32

one who

Question 33

-oxia

Answer 33

oxygen

Question 34

-partum

Answer 34

birth, labor

Question 35

-phoria

Answer 35

bear, carry; feeling (mental state)

Question 36

-physis

Answer 36

grow

Question 37

-pnea

Answer 37

breathing

Question 38

-ptom

Answer 38

happening, occurrence