Biology Prefix and Suffix Shepton
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- sex-
- six
- -ura
- tail
- -nom-, -nomy
- ordered knowledge, law
- -elle
- small
- phyc-
- seaweed, algae
- orb-
- circle, round, ring
- cirru-
- hairlike curls
- cephal-
- head
- homo- (Greek)
- same, alike
- trich-
- hair
- -phore,, pher-
- bear, carry
- -spher-
- ball, round
- loc-
- place
- erythro-
- red
- aden-
- gland
- -phyll
- leaf
- -scop-
- look, device for seeing
- orth-
- straight, correct, right
- capit-
- head
- -ist
- person who deals with
- path-, -pathy
- disease, suffering
- oscu-
- mouth
- -able
- capable of
- audi-
- hear
- top-
- place
- omni-
- all
- med-
- middle
- -lys, -lyt, -lyst
- decompose, split, dissolve
- sub-
- under, below
- -blast-
- sprout, germ, bud
- -iasis
- disease, abnormal condition
- ov-
- egg
- glut-
- buttock
- ferro-
- iron
- pleur-
- lung, rib, side
- iso-
- equal, same
- roto-
- wheel
- tri-
- three
- -sperm-
- seed
- entom-
- insects
- plasm-, -plast-
- form, formed into
- -ap-, -aph-
- touch
- -cyst-
- sac, pouch, bladder
- di-, dia- (Greek)
- through, across, apart
- foli-
- leaf
- marg-
- border, edge
- meg-
- million, great
- terr-
- earth, land
- atmo-
- vapor
- mast-
- breast
- super-, sur-
- over, above, on top
- cervic-
- neck
- arteri-
- artery
- anti-
- against, opposite
- kerat-
- horn
- stell-
- stars
- eco-
- house
- cen-, cene-
- now, recent
- anemo-
- wind
- branchi-
- fin
- lact-
- milk
- -it is
- inflammation, disease
- not-
- back
- micro-
- small, millionth
- chlor-
- green
- -emia
- blood
- physic-
- nature, natural qualities
- rhe-, rrhea
- flow
- fract-
- break
- derm-
- skin
- neur-
- nerve
- somn-
- sleep
- ex-
- out of, away from
- cerebr-
- brain
- gyn-
- female
- photo-
- light
- contra-
- against
- caud-
- tail
- mono-
- one, single
- vas-
- vessel
- carp-
- fruit
- carcin-
- cancer
- tachy-
- quick, swift
- -gon
- angle, corner
- hidr-
- sweat
- homo- (Latin)
- man, human
- hyster-
- womb, uterus
- aur-
- ear
- p[roto-
- first, primary
- pheno-
- show
- malac-
- soft
- brachi-
- arm
- lith-, -lite
- stone, petrifying
- tetr-
- four
- adip-
- fat
- brev-
- short
- aster-, astr-
- star
- phyl-
- related group
- ec-
- out of, away from
- coll-
- glue
- angi-
- blood, vessel, duct
- pre-
- before, ahead of time
- sess-
- sit
- lat-
- side
- -node
- knot
- sol-
- sun
- kine-
- move
- gyr-
- ring, circle, spiral
- trans-
- across
- cotyl-
- cup
- pyr-
- heat, fire
- sym-, syn-
- together
- multi-
- many
- neo-
- new, recent
- holo-
- entire, whole
- grav-
- heavy
- -thel-
- cover a surface
- por-
- opening
- pent-
- five
- bronch-
- windpipe
- in-, il-, im-, ir-
- to, toward, into
- acou-, acous-
- hear
- pseudo-
- false, deceptive
- alg-, -algia
- pain
- hort-
- garden
- ret-
- net, made like a net
- gymno-
- naked, bare
- echin-
- spiny, prickly
- hist-
- tissue
- phren-
- mind, diaphragm
- -verge
- turn, slant
- permea-
- pas, go
- semi-
- half, partly
- pino-
- drink
- -ary, -arium
- denotes a place for something
- -ul-, -ule
- diminutive, small
- -orium, -ory
- place for something
- a-, an-
- not, without, lacking, deficient
- -ped-
- foot
- -gen, -gine
- producer, former
- hem-
- blood
- nuc-
- center
- ven-, vent-
- come
- -gam-
- marriage
- demi-
- half
- carpal-
- wrist
- turb-
- whirl
- de-
- away from, down
- cyt-, -cyte
- cell, hollow container
- xero-
- dry
- co-
- with, together
- -ond
- form, appearance
- odont-
- tooth
- centr-
- center
- ecto-
- outside of
- -spor-
- seed
- xanth-
- yellow
- hyper-
- above, beyond over
- hydr-
- water
- malle-
- hammer
- macr-
- large
- bath-
- depth, height
- corp-
- body
- sarc-
- flesh
- in-
- very, thoroughly
- -ner-
- moist, liquid
- -chym-
- juice
- tele-
- far off, distant
- hypo-
- below, under, less
- dia- (Latin)
- day
- -tom-
- cut, slice
- cente-
- pierce
- tax-
- arrange, put in order
- -cul-, -cule
- small, diminutive
- ren-
- kidney
- aero-
- air
- -ous
- full of
- centi-
- hudredth
- opthalm-
- eye
- -ate
- verb form - the act of
- mort-
- death
- cata-
- breakdown, downward
- dent-
- tooth
- mis-
- wrong, incorrect
- barb-
- beard
- prim-
- first
- hyphno-
- sleep
- non-
- not
- phyt-, phyte
- platn
- stat-, -stasis
- standing, placed, staying
- enter-
- intestine, gut
- -al
- having the character of
- mamm-
- breast
- mela-, melan-
- black, dark
- strat-
- strat
- therm-
- heat
- pan-
- all
- ab-
- away from, out from
- stom-, -stome
- mouth
- cumul-
- heaped
- extra-
- beyond, outside
- vig-
- strong
- alb-
- white
- ac-
- to, toward
- lingu-
- tongue
- leuc-, leuk-
- white, bright, light
- eury-
- widen
- trache-
- windpipe
- bi-, bio- (Greek)
- life, living
- uni-
- one
- quadr-
- four
- sacchar-
- sugar
- nemat-
- thread
- re-
- again, back
- herb-
- grass, plants
- vit-, viv-
- life
- chrom-, -chrome
- color
- -the-, -thes-
- put
- pulmo-
- lung
- stereo-
- solid, 3-dimensional
- neprho-
- kidney
- hipp-
- horse
- calor-
- heat
- deci-
- tenth
- plan-
- roaming, wandering
- oto-
- ear
- amyl-
- starch
- -helminth-
- worm
- din-
- terrible
- cort-, cortic-
- outer layer
- dynam-
- power
- oligo-
- few, little
- antrhopo-
- man, human
- aqu-
- water
- kilo-
- thousand
- -meter, -metry
- measurement
- -cid-, -cis-
- cut, kill, fall
- -logy
- study of
- olf-
- smell
- coel-
- hollow
- kel-
- tumor, swelling
- mito-
- thread
- spec-, spic-
- look at
- tarso-
- ankle
- ad-
- to, toward
- hemi-
- half
- -trop-
- turn, change
- -ium
- refers to a part of the body
- gloss-
- tongue
- cac-.
- bad
- -oma
- abnormal condition, tumor
- palm-
- broad, flat
- stern-
- chest, breast
- bene-
- well, good
- zyg-
- joined together
- eso-
- inward, within, inner
- mycel-
- threadlike
- du-, duo-
- two
- dendr-
- tree
- chem-
- dealing with chemicals
- rect-
- right, correct
- volv-
- roll, wander
- ur-
- urine
- rhiz-
- root
- counter-
- against
- rhag-, -rrhage
- burst forth
- hetero-
- different, other
- archaeo-
- primitive, ancient
- oxy-
- sharp, acid, oxygen
- sapr-
- rotten
- cyan-
- blue
- ameb-
- change, alternation
- toxico-
- poison
- -troph-
- nourishment, one who feels
- post-
- after, behind
- amni-
- fetal membrane
- sci-
- know
- antho-
- flower
- hyph-
- weaving, web
- moll-
- soft
- -ped-
- child
- chondr-
- cartilage
- pneumo-
- lungs, air
- fibr-
- fiber, thread
- circa-, circum-
- around, about
- myriad-
- many
- -cell-
- chamber, small room
- psych
- mind
- scler-
- hard
- flor-
- flower
- pachy-
- thick
- -err-
- wander, go astray
- -hal-, -hale
- breathe, breath
- gastr-
- stomach
- par-, para-
- beside, near, equal
- morph-
- shape, form
- -chthy-
- fish
- carn-
- meat, flesh
- necr-
- corpse, dead
- -flect, -flex
- bend
- -ation
- noun form - the act of
- dors-
- back
- lip-
- fat
- lumin-
- light
- in-, il-, im-, ir-
- not
- -logist
- one who studies
- lin-
- line
- noct-, nov-
- night
- gnath-
- jaw
- ana-
- up, back, again
- phag-
- eat
- -vor-
- devour, eat
- agri-
- field, soil
- dorm-
- sleep
- paleo-
- old, ancient
- -ic
- (adjective former)
- -pod
- foot
- -eous
- nature of, like
- -iae
- person afflicted with disease
- rubr-
- red
- cosmo-
- world, order, form
- chron-
- time
- -kary-
- cell nucleus
- lign-
- wood
- -ism
- a state or condition
- vect-
- carry
- -septic
- infection, putrefaction
- geo-
- land, earth
- cuti-
- skin
- crani-
- skull
- capill-
- hair
- thall-
- young shoot
- sten-
- narrow
- -glen-
- eyeball
- puls-
- drive, push
- -osis
- abnormal condition
- brady-
- slow
- cresc-, cret-
- begin to grow
- pom
- fruit
- milli-
- thousandth
- my-
- muscle
- som-, somat-, -some
- body
- xyl-
- wood
- oct-
- eight
- ang-
- choke, feel pain
- -mer
- part
- hygr-
- moist, wet
- chir-
- hand
- cocc-
- seed, berry
- cardi-
- heart
- -sis
- condition, state
- opt-
- eye
- myc-
- fungus
- auto-
- self
- arthr-
- joint, articulation
- hector-
- hundred
- en-, endo-, ent-
- in, into, within
- pro-
- forward, favoring, before
- epi-
- upon, above, over
- eu-
- well, good, true, normal
- nas-
- nose
- dis-
- apart, out
- -gene-
- origin, birth
- spir-, -spire
- breathe
- rhodo-
- rose
- digit-
- finger, toe
- -cycle, cycl-
- ring, circle
- andro-
- man, masculine
- telo-
- end
- ventr-
- belly, underside
- chel-
- claw
- -duct
- lead
- radi-
- ray
- -escent
- becoming
- ornith-
- bird
- phon-, -phone
- sound
- quin-
- five
- dactyl-
- finger
- crypt-
- hidden, covered
- -gram, graph
- record, writing
- oste-
- bone
- bacter-, bactr-
- bacterium, stick, club
- ambi-
- both
- -grad-
- step
- oo-
- egg
- ply-
- many, several
- hapl-
- simple
- leio-
- smooth
- anter-
- front
- hex-
- six
- zym-
- yeast
- inter-
- within, inside
- ob-
- against
- baro-
- weight
- son-
- sound
- coni-
- cone
- cerat-
- horn
- ocul-
- eye
- sept-
- partition, seven
- -fer-
- bear, carry, produce
- anther-
- fatty deposit
- pinni-
- feather
- port-
- carry
- bi- (Latin)
- two twice
- amphi-, ampho-
- both
- rhin-
- nose
- brachy-
- short
- peri-
- around
- alto-
- high
- flu-,fluct-,flux
- flow
- ultra-
- beyond
- -ine
- of or pertaining to
- met-, meta-
- between, along, after
- gluc-, glyc-
- sweet, sugar
- ign-
- fire
- deliquesc-
- become fluid
- -scribe, -script
- write
- onc-
- mass, tumor
- -phil-
- loving, fond of
- -fid, fiss-
- split, divided into
- mot-
- move
- -en
- made of
- deca-
- ten
- -less
- without
- platy-
- flat
- schis-, schiz-
- split, divide
- infra-
- below, beneath
- -ase
- forms names of enzymes
- di-, dipl- (Latin)
- two, double
- halo-
- salt
- -gest-
- carry, produce, bear
- intra-
- between
- dys-
- bad, abnormal, difficult
- hepar-, hepat-
- liver
- lachry-
- tear
- mut-
- change
- hibern-
- winter
- -gross-
- thick
- per-
- through
- mes-
- middle, half, intermediate
- apo-, ap-
- away from
- pter-
- having wings or fins
- ante-
- before, ahead of time
- strict-
- drawn tight
- -log-
- word, speech
- mole-
- mass
- encephal-
- brain
- -glob-
- ball, round
- saur-
- lizard
- -aceous
- of or pertaining to
- styl-
- pillar
- solv-
- loosen, free
- zo-, -zoa
- animal