Lesson 15: Bioscientific Words & The History of Science

Question 1

BRACHY-

Answer 1

short (e.g. brachysm)

Question 2

CAC- (KAK-)

Answer 2

bad (e.g. cacosmia)

Question 3

CAU-, CAUS-

Answer 3

to burn (e.g. cauterize)

Question 4

CLI-, CLEI-

Answer 4

to close (e.g. coreclisis)

Question 5

CLEIST-

Answer 5

closed (e.g. cleistogamy)

Question 6

CLY(S)-

Answer 6

to wash (e.g. enteroclysis)

Question 7

CROT-

Answer 7

pulse beat (e.g. tricrotism)

Question 8

DOLICH-

Answer 8

long (e.g. dolichorrhine)

Question 9

EDE-

Answer 9

to swell (e.g. edema)

Question 10

LEPT-

Answer 10

thin, delicate (e.g. leptocyte)

Question 11

LOG-

Answer 11

word, speech, reason (e.g. dyslogia)

Question 12

MES-

Answer 12

middle (e.g. mesoderm)

Question 13

MYX-

Answer 13

mucus, slime (e.g. myxoma)

Question 14

OXY-, OX-

Answer 14

sharp, acid, oxygen (e.g. oxydactyl)

Question 15

PETR-

Answer 15

rock (e.g. osteopetrosis)

Question 16

PHON-

Answer 16

sound, voice (e.g. phonetics, dysphonia)

Question 17

PHOT-

Answer 17

light (e.g. phototrophic)

Question 18

POIE-

Answer 18

to make (e.g. poet, angiopoiesis)

Question 19

PRESBY-

Answer 19

old (e.g. presbyatrics)

Question 20

PYR-, PYRET-

Answer 20

fire, fever (e.g. pyrotoxin)

Question 21

PYREX-

Answer 21

fever

Question 22

RHIZ-, -RRHIZ

Answer 22

root (e.g. rhizosphere, mycorrhiza)