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spiny; throny
acanth(o)
light
actin(o)
air; gas
aer(o)
starch
amyl(o)
plaque; fatty substance
athero
bacilli (rod-shaped); bacteria
bacill(i)
masculine
andro
bacteria
bacteri(o)
weight; pressure
bar(o)
base
bas(o)
base
basi(o)
pain
algesi
pain
algo
life
bio-
immature cells
blasto
bad, ill
cac(o)
calcium
calc(o)
calcium
calci(o)
cancer
carcin(o)
cartilage
chondrio
cartilage
chondro
chemical
chem(o)
chlorine, green
chlor(o)
dance
chore(o)
color
chrom
color
chromat
color
chromo
time
chrono
chyle (fat), a digestive juice
chyl(o)
chyme (food), semifluid production of chyme in the stomach
chym(o)
movement
cine(o)
secrete
crin(o)
cold
cry(o)
hidden; obscure
crypt(o)
circle; cycle
cycl(o)
blue
cyan(o)
dust
coni(o)
bladder, cyst, cystic duct
cyst(o)
cell
cyt(o)
right, toward the right
dextr(o)
thirst
dips(o)
back
dor(o)
back
dorsi
force
dynamo
reflected sound
echo
electricity; electric
electr(o)
red; rosy
eosin(o)
work
ergo
red, redness
erythr(o)
sensation, perception
esthesio
ethmoid bone (separates nasal cavity from brain)
ethmo
cause
etio
fiber
fibr(o)
light; luminous; flourine
fluor(o)
fungus
fungi
milk
galact(o)
producing; being born
gen(o)
old age
gero
old age
geront(o)
glucose
gluco
sugar
glyco
angle
gonio
granular
granulo
women
gyn(o)
women
gyne
women
gyneco
same; constant
home(o)
same; constant
homo
hydrogen, water
hydr(o)
sleep
hypn(o)
physician; treatment
iatr(o)
dry; scaly; fish
ichthy(o)
distinct; unknown
idio
safe; immune
immun(o)
potassium
kal(i)
nucleus
karyo
ketone; acetone
ket(o)
ketone; acetone
keton(o)
movement
kin(o)
movement
kine
motion
kinesi(o)
motion
kineso
humpback
kyph(o)
milk
lact(o)
milk
lacti
lateral, to one side
latero
light, frail, thin
lepto
white
leuk(o)
fat
lip(o)
stone
lith(o)
speech, words, thought
log(o)
dissolution
lys(o)
large; long
macr(o)
middle; medial plane
medi(o)
large; million
meg(a)
large; million
megal(o)
black; dark
melan(o)
middle; median
mes(o)
small; one-millionth; tiny
micr(o)
smaller; less
mio
structure; shape
morph(o)
sleep; numbness
narco
death; dying
necr(o)
night
noct(i)
normal
normo
nucleus
nucle(o)
night
nyct(o)
tumor
oncho
tumor
onco
straight; normal
orth(o)
sharp; acute; oxygen
oxy
thick
pachy
disease
path(o)
eating; devouring; swallowing
phago
drugs; medicine
pharmaco
sound; voice; speech
phon(o)
light
phot(o)
physical; natural
physi
physical; natural
physio
air; gas; growing
physo
plant
phyt(o)
formative; plasma
plasma
varied; irregular
poikilo
FALSE
pseud(o)
pus
pyo
fever
pyreto
fire; fever; heat
pyro
radiation; x-ray; radius
radio
tube
salping(o)
split
schisto
split; division
schiz(o)
hardness; hardening
scler(o)
crooked; bent
scolio
darkness
scoto
iron
sidero
food; grain
sito
body
somat(o)
sleep
somn(o)
sleep
somni
squamous
squamo
sound
sono
spasm
spasmo
round; spherical
spher(o)
breath; breathe
spir(o)
grapelike clusters
staphyl(o)
narrowness
steno
3-D
stere(o)
twisted chains; streptococci
strepto
peg-shaped
styl(o)
distant; end; complete
tel(o)
distant; end; complete
tele(o)
monster (as a malformed fetus)
terato
heat
therm(o)
tension; pressure
tono
place; topical
top(o)
poison; toxin
tox(i)
poison; toxin
toxico
poison; toxin
toxo
food; nutrition
tropho
life
vivi
yellow
xanth(o)
enzyme
zym(o)
stranger
xeno
dry
xer(o)
sword; xiphoid
xiph(o)
life
zo(o)