Greek VI
Terms
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- derm, dermat
- skin
- polyglot
- able to speak or write several languages; multilingual.
- dactyl
- finger; toe
- tautology
- needless repetition of an idea
- cephaloagia
- headache
- hypodermic
- introduced under the skin
- -machic, -machical, -machal
- pertaining to fighting
- cephalopod
- any mollusk of the class Cephalopoda, having tentacles attached to the head, including the cuttlefish, squid, and octopus.
- tom
- cut
- atom
- the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
- plas, plasm, plast
- mold; shape; form; substance
- -algaic
- one who suffers pain
- osteotomy
- the dividing of a bone, or the excision of part of it.
- dermatitis
- Inflammation of the skin.
- monotone
- a single tone without harmony or variation in pitch.
- tauto-
- same
- -itic
- one who has inflammation; characterized by inflammation
- plastic
- any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened
- osteo
- bone
- pachyderm
- any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- gloss, glott, glot
- tongue; language
- pod
- foot
- cephal
- head
- -algia, -algy
- pain
- -itis
- inflammation
- -machist
- one who fights
- dactylology
- the technique of communicating by signs made with the fingers, esp. in the manual alphabets used by the deaf.
- ton, ten
- stretch; tone
- chirography
- handwriting; penmanship
- pachy-
- thick
- chir
- hand
- -machy, -machia
- war; fight
- -algic, -algetic
- pertaining to or causing pain
- chiromancy
- palmistry