week 10 rooot1

Question 1

CAUL-

Answer 1

‘stem’, ‘stalk’ (caulis)
CAULI-COL-ous, applies to fungi growing on plant stems; CAUL-ine, pertaining to a stem (applies to leaves growing on the upper portion of a stem; FILI-CAUL-ine, with a threadlike stem

Question 2

VENTR-

Answer 2

‘belly’ (venter)
VENTRI-LOQU-ism; VENTR-icle, a cavity or chamber, as of the heart or brain; BI-VENTR-al, applies to muscles of the biventer type (= digastric, each of a pair of muscles which run under the jaw and act to open it, from GAST- ‘belly’ because the muscle has two fleshy parts or ‘bellies’ at an angle, connected by a tendon)

Question 3

VARI-

Answer 3

‘varied’, ‘changing’, ‘spotting’ (varius)

VARI-ous; VARI-ety; VARI-egate-d, marked with different colours; VARI-CELLA, chickenpox

Question 4

TUM-

Answer 4

‘to swell’
TUM-esc-ent, swollen, enlarged; de-TUM-esc-ence, subsidence of a swelling (esp. of erecto-sexual organs following orgasm)

Question 5

STRAT-

Answer 5

‘layer’ (stratum)

BI-STRAT-ose, with cells arranged in two layers; STRAT-iform, applies to fibrocartilage coating osseous grooves

Question 6

STIP-, STIPIT-

Answer 6

‘stalk’ (stipes)
STIPIT-ate, stalked; STIP-ule, one of two membranes or foliaceous processes developed at the base of a leaf petiole; BI-STIP-ul-ate, provided with two stipules

Question 7

SPIN-

Answer 7

‘thorn’, ‘spine’ (spina)

SPIN-ul-ate, covered with spines; SPIN-ul-at-ion, a defensive spiny covering, or the state of being spinulate

Question 8

PROXIM-

Answer 8

‘near’, ‘nearest’ (proximus, ‘nearest the body’)
PROXIM-ate, nearest, immediate (as proximate cause); PROXIM-al, in dentistry, surface of a tooth next to the adjacent tooth; PROXIMO-LABI-al, pertaining to proximal and labial surfaces of a tooth

Question 9

SINISTR-

Answer 9

‘left’ (sinister)

SINISTER; SINISTRO-TORS-ion, a twisting or turning toward the left; SINISTR-in, a levorotatory polysaccharide

Question 10

LIQU-

Answer 10

‘to be liquid’

LIQUE-FACT-ion, conversion of material into liquid form

Question 11

LUMIN-

Answer 11

‘light’ (lumen)
LUMEN, the cavity of a tubular part of an organ, or the central cavity of a plant cell; SONO-LUMIN-esc-ence, the emission of light by various liquids when traversed by high-frequency sound or ultrasonic waves

Question 12

MAN(U)-

Answer 12

‘hand’ (manus)
MANU-FACT-ure, MANU-SCRIPT; BI-MAN-ous, having two hands (applies to certain primates); MANU-DUCT-ion, operation performed by the hands in surgical and obstetric practice

Question 13

NIGR-

Answer 13

‘black’ (niger)

NIGR-esc-ent, nearly black, blackish

Question 14

OSS-

Answer 14

‘bone’ (os)

OSS-icle, any small bone; DERMO-OSSI-FIC-at-ion, a bone formed in the skin

Question 15

FLAV-

Answer 15

‘yellow’ (flavus)
FLAV-edo, yellowness of the skin; FLAV-in, one of a group of yellow pigments isolated from various plant and animal sources

Question 16

FLOCC-

Answer 16

‘tuft, as of wool’ (floccus)

FLOCCUS, a tuft of wooly hairs on a plant; FLOCC-ose, covered with woollike tufts (applies to bacterial growths

Question 17

LIGN-

Answer 17

‘wood’ (lignum)
LIGNE-ous, woody, of the nature of wood; LIGN-in, a complex substance which, associated with cellulose, causes the thickening of plant cell walls, and so forms wood

Question 18

LEV-

Answer 18

‘light’ (in weight) (levis)
LEV-ity; LEV-er; e-LEV-at-or, an instrument for lifting a part or for extracting the roots of teeth; al-LEVI-at-ion, the modification of symptoms, the lessening of pain

Question 19

LAT-

Answer 19

‘to bear’, ‘to carry’

re-LATE; e-LAT-ed; trans-LATE; ab-LAT-ion, removal of a part by amputation, excision, etc.

Question 20

LABI-, LABR-

Answer 20

‘lip’ (labium or labrum)

LABIUM, lip, liplike structure; LABIO-GRESS-ion, location of the anterior teeth in front of their normal position