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- anthropology
- science dealing with origins, races, customs, and beliefs of humankind
- ecology
- science dealing with the relation of living things to their environment and to eachother
- ethnology
- branch of anthropology dealing with human races, origin, distribution, culture...ect
- necrology
- a list of persons who have recently died
- pathology
- science dealing with the nature and causes of disease; something abnormal
- petrology
- scientific study of rocks
- physiology
- science dealing with the functions of livings things or their organs
- sociology
- study of the evolution, development, and functioning of human society
- biochemistry
- chemistry dealing with the chemical compunds and processes in living plants and animals
- biology
- science dealing with the study of living organisms
- biometry
- statistical calculation of the probable duration of human life
- biometrics
- statistical analysis of biologic data
- biota
- the living plants and living animals of a region
- tome
- one volume, or "cut", of a work of several volumes; scholarly book
- antipodes
- parts of the globe diametrically opposite
- anthropod
- invertabrate with jointed legs
- dipody
- line of poetry consisting of two feet; a dimeter
- pseudopod
- temporary extension of the protoplasm to enable the organism to move and take in food
- homology
- similarity of structure
- heterology
- lack of correspondance between parts
- homonym
- sounds the same but different spelling and meaning
- heteronym
- spelled the same but different sound and meaning
- heteroclite
- person or thing deviating from the common rule
- hyperglycemia
- excess of sugar in the blood
- hypertension
- high blood pressure
- hyperthermia
- hyperpyrexia
- hyperopia
- farsightedness
- hypodermic
- injected under the skin
- endocrine
- secreting internally
- endogamy
- marriage within the tribe, caste, or social group
- endogenous
- produced from within; due to internal causes
- endocarditis
- inflammation of the lining of the heart
- endoderm
- membranelike tissue lining the digestive tract
- endophyte
- plant growing within another plant
- exoteric
- external; exterior; readily understandable
- autarchy
- rule by an absolute sovereign
- heirarchy
- body of rulers or officials grouped in ranks, each being subordinate to the rank above it
- geocentric
- measured from the earth's center
- geodedic
- mathematics dealing with the earths shape and dimensions
- geology
- science dealing with the earth's history as recorded in rocks
- geomorphic
- pertaining to the shape of the earth or the form of its surface
- geophysics
- science treating of the forces that modify the earth
- geopolitics
- study of the government and its policies as affected by physical geography
- geoponics
- art or science of agriculture
- georgic
- agricultural; poem on farming
- geotropism
- response to earth's gravity, as the growing of roots downward in the ground
- apathy
- lack of feeling or emotion
- pathos
- quality on drama, speech, literature, music, or events that arouses a feeling of pity or sadness
- homeopathy
- system of medical practice that treats disease by giving small doses of a remedy which, if given to helthy people, would produce symptoms of the disease
- anthropomorphic
- attributing human form or characteristis to being not human, especially gods
- morphology
- branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of animals and plants
- pericardium
- membranous sac enclosing the heart
- perihelion
- nearest point to the sun in the orbit of a planet or comet
- periodontics
- branch of dentistry dealing with mouth diseases
- peripheral
- outside or away from the central part
- periphrastic
- expressed in a roundabout way
- peristyle
- row of columns around a building or court
- peritonitis
- inflammation of the membrane lining the abdominal cavity and covering the organs (peritoneum)