Chapter 4-Combining Forms
Terms
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- carp/o
- wrist bones
- cib/o
- meals
- cis/o
- to cut
- cost/o
- rib
- cutane/o
- skin
- dactyl/o
- fingers, toes
- duct/o
- to lead, carry
- flex/o
- to bend
- furc/o
- forking, branching
- gloss/o
- tongue
- glyc/o
- sugar
- immuno/o
- protection
- morph/o
- shape, form
- mort/o
- death
- nat/i
- birth
- nect/o
- to bind, tie, connect
- norm/o
- rule, order
- ox/o
- oxygen
- pub/o
- pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone
- seps/o
- infection
- somn/o
- sleep
- son/o
- sound
- the/o
- to put, place
- thel/o
- nipple
- thyr/o
- shield, the shape of the thyroid gland resembled (-oid) a shield to those who named it
- tip/o
- place, position, location
- tox/o
- poison
- trache/o
- trachea, windpipe
- urethr/o
- urethra