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Medical Terminology - Combining Forms

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acanth(o)
spiny; thorny
actin(o), phot(o)
light
aer(o)
air; gas
alge, algesi, algio, algo
pain
amyl(o)
starch
andro
masculine
athero
plaque; fatty substance
bacill(i)
bacilli
bacteri(o)
bacteria
bar(o)
weight; pressure
bas(o), basi(o)
base
bio, vivi, zo(o)
life
blasto
immature cells
cac(o)
bad; ill
calc(o), calci(o)
calcium
carcin(o)
cancer
chem(o)
chemical
chlor(o)
chlorine, green
chondrio, chondro
cartilage, grainy, gritty
chore(o)
dance
chrom, chromat, chromo
color
chrono
time
chyl(o)
chyle, a digestive juice
chym(o)
chyme, semifluid present during digestion
cine(o), kin(o), kine, kinesi(o), kineso
movement
coni(o)
dust
crin(o)
secrete
cry(o)
cold
crypt(o)
hidden; obscure
cyan(o)
blue
cycl(o)
circle; cycle; ciliary body
cyst(o), cysti
bladder, cyst, cystic duct
cyt(o)
cell
dextr(o)
right, toward the right
dips(o)
thirst
dors(o), dorsi
back
dynamo
force; energy
echo
reflected sound
electr(o)
electricity; electric
eosin(o), erythr(o)
red
ergo
work
esthesio
sensation, perception
ethmo
ethmoid bone
etio
cause
fibr(o)
fiber
fluor(o)
light; luminous; fluorine
fungi
fungus
galact(o), lact(o), lacti
milk
gen(o)
producing; being born
gero, geront(o)
old age
gluco
glucose
glyco
sugars
gonio
angle
granulo
granular
gyn(o), gyne, gyneco
women
home(o), homo
same; constant
hydr(o)
hydrogen, water
hypn(o), somn(o), somni
sleep
iatr(o)
physician; treatment
ichthy(o)
dry; scaly; fish
idio
distinct; unknown
immun(o)
safe; immune
kal(i)
potassium
karyo, nucle(o)
nucleus
ket(o), keton(o)
ketone; acetone
kyph(o)
humpback
latero
lateral, to one side
lepto
light, frail, thin
leuk(o)
white
lip(o)
fat
lith(o)
stone
log(o)
speech, words, thought
lys(o)
dissolution
macr(o), meg(a), megal(o)
large
medi(o)
middle; medial plane
melan(o)
black; dark
mes(o)
middle; median
micr(o)
small; one-millionth; tiny
mio
smaller; less
morph(o)
structure; shape
narco
sleep; numbness
necr(o)
death; dying
noct(i), nyct(o)
night
normo
normal
oncho, onco
tumor
orth(o)
straight; normal
oxy
sharp; acute; oxygen
pachy
thick
path(o)
disease
phago
eating; devouring; swallowing
pharmaco
drugs; medicine
phon(o)
sound; voice; speech
physi, physio
physical; natural
physo
air; gas; growing
phyt(o)
plant
plasma, plasmo
formative; plasma
poikilo
varied; irregular
pseud(o)
false
pyo
pus
pyreto
fever
pyro
fever; fire; heat
radio
radiation; x-ray; radius
salping(o), syring(o)
tube
schisto, schiz(o)
split
scler(o)
hardness; hardening
scolio
crooked; bent
scoto
darkness
sidero
iron
sito
food; grain
somat(o)
body
sono
sound
spasmo
spasm
spher(o)
round; spherical
spir(o)
breath; breathe
squamo
scale; squamous
staphyl(o)
grapelike clusters
steno
narrowness
stere(o)
three-dimensional
strepto
twisted chains; streptococci
styl(o)
peg-shaped
tel(o), tele(o)
distant; end; complete
terato
monster (as a malformed fetus)
therm(o)
heat
tono
tension; pressure
top(o)
place; topical
tox(i), toxico, toxo
poison; toxin
tropho
food; nutrition
xanth(o)
yellow
xeno
stranger
xer(o)
dry
xiph(o)
sword; xiphoid
zym(o)
fermentation; enzyme

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