Anatomy: Word Roots
Terms
undefined, object
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- a- or an-
- without, absence
- anti-
- against
- -ase
- signifies an enzyme
- auto-
- self
- bi-
- two
- brady-
- slow
- cardio-
- heart
- cephalo-
- head
- cerebro-
- brain
- contra-
- against
- -crine
- a secretion
- crypt-
- hidden
- cutan-
- skin
- -cyte or -cyto
- cell
- de-
- without, lacking
- di-
- two
- dys-
- difficult, faulty
- -elle
- small
- endo-
- inside or within
- exo-
- outside
- extra-
- outside
- -emia
- blood
- epi-
- over
- erythro-
- red
- gastro-
- stomach
- -gen, -genic
- produce
- gluco-, glyco-
- sugar, sweet
- hemo-
- blood
- hepato-
- liver
- homo-
- same
- hydro-
- water
- hyper-
- above or excess
- hypo-
- beneath or deficient
- inter-
- between
- intra-
- within
- -itis
- inflammation
- kali-
- potassium
- leuko-
- white
- lipo-
- fat
- lumen
- inside of a hollow tube
- -lysis
- split apart or rupture
- macro-
- large
- micro-
- small
- mono-
- one
- multi-
- many
- myo-
- muscle
- oligo-
- little, few
- patho-, pathy-
- related to disease
- para-
- near, close
- peri-
- around
- poly-
- many
- post-
- after
- pre-
- before
- pro-
- before
- pseudo-
- false
- re-
- again
- retro-
- backward or behind
- semi-
- half
- sub-
- below
- super-
- above, byond
- supra-
- above, on top of
- tachy-
- rapid
- trans-
- across, through