Roots Flashcards
Ab
Off/Away from
Ad
To/Toward
Albo/alb
White
Alg/algia
pain
Anti
against
arthro
joint
Aster/astr
star
bio
life
bi (di)
two
Brachi
Arm
Brady
Slow
Brev
Short
Centi
100 (hundred)
Cephal; cep
Head
Cerat
Horn
Chrom
Color
Crypt
Hidden/covered
Cyan
Blue
Cyte
Cell
Dactyl
Finger
Deca
Ten
Dent
Tooth
Dys
Bad/ abnormal, difficult
E (e-)
Out of/ away (without)
Edaphic
Of the Soil/Rock
Encephal
Brain
Endo/ en
Within
Ephemeral
Short lived
Epi
On/ Upon
Erythro
Red
Exo (ecto)
Outside of
Glob
Round, Ball like
Gross
Thick
Halo
Salt
Hemi
Half
Hesper
Of the Evening
Hetero
Unlike/ Unequal
Holo
Entire, Whole
Homo
Same
Hydro
Water
Hyper
Above, beyond
Hypo
Under, below
Inter
Between
Intra
Within
-ism
A state or condition
Iso
equal
-itis
Inflammation/ Swelling
Lact
Milk
Leuk/ leuko
White
Macro
Large
Macula
Spot
Mes/meso
Middle
Meta
last/ after/ long
milli
1,000 (Thousand)
micro
minute/small (also 1/1,000,000)
Mono
One
Morph
Form
Myo/ my
Muscle
Neo
New
Nomen
Name
Noto/not
back
Octo
Eight
Ology
Study of
Onc
Mass, tumor
Osteo
Bone
Pan
all
Para/par
Near/Beside
Path/pathy
Disease/ Suffering
Ped/ Pod
Foot/ feet
Peri
Around
Philic
Loving
Phobic
Fearing
Phyto
Of plants
Plast/ plasia
Form/ Formation/ formed into
platy
Flat
Poly
Many
Psuedo
False, Deceptive
Ptera (pterous)
Wing
Quad
Four
Sapro
Putrid
Schizo
split/ to split
Scler
Hard
-sis
State/ condition
Stom/ stoma
Mouth
Sacchar
Sugar
Some/ somat
body
sten
narrow
styl
Pillar
Supra
Above, over, beyond
Sym/syn
together
tachy
quick, swift
Tele
Far off, distant
Telo
end
thermo
temperature
trans
across
Tri
Three
Trophic
Pertaining to nutrition/ feeding
Ventr
Belly, underside
Zo/Zoa
Animal
Zygous
Pair