Lesson 1 Combining Forms

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, divergence, different from

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

Question 15

erythr-

Answer 15

red, red blood cell

Question 16

lept-

Answer 16

thin, fine or slight

Question 17

leuk-

Answer 17

white, white blood cell

Question 18

lith-

Answer 18

stone, calculus

Question 19

log-

Answer 19

word study

Question 20

malac-

Answer 20

soft

Question 21

mes-

Answer 21

middle, secondary, partial or mesentery

Question 22

-meter, metr-

Answer 22

measure, 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

ten-

Answer 29

narrow

Question 30

stere-

Answer 30

solid, having 3 dimensions

Question 31

tachy-

Answer 31

rapid

Question 32

tox(i)-

Answer 32

poison

Question 33

anastomis

Answer 33

a surgical or pathological connection between 2 passages

Question 34

exostosis

Answer 34

a bony growth arising from the surface of a bone

Question 35

aponeurosis

Answer 35

a sheet of tissue connecting muscles to bone

Question 36

symbiosis

Answer 36

the living together in close association of 2 organisms of different species