Anatomy and Physiology 12 Latin Roots HANDOUT termsheet PDF

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**[Physiology Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes Used In Biology]{.smallcaps}** a-, an- without carn- meat, flesh ---------------------- --------------------------- --------------------- ------------------------------ ab- away from carp- fruit -aceous of or pertaining to carpal- wrist aero- air, gas, oxygen caud- tail agri- field, soil -cell- chamber, small room -al having the character of centi- hundredth alb- white centri- center, middle alg-, -algia pain cephalo- head alto- high cerebr- brain ambi-, amphi- both cervic- neck amyl- starch chem- dealing with chemical ana- up, back, again chloro- green andro- man, masculine chondr- cartilage ang- choke, feel pain chrom-, -chrome color angio- vessel, container chron- time anter- front -chym- juice antho- flower -cide, -cis- cut, kill, fall anti- against circa-, circum- around, about anthropo- man, human co- with, together aqua- water coel- cavity archeo-, archae- ancient coni- cone -ary, -arium like, resembling -costa rib arteri- artery counter- against arthro- joint crani- skull -ase enzyme -cul-, -cule small, diminutive -ate the act of (verb form) cuti- skin anther- fatty deposit cyan- blue atmo- vapour -cyst sac, capsule, pouch, bladder audi- hear cyt-, -cyte cell, hollow container aur- ear deca- ten auto- self deci- tenth avi bird demi- half bacter-, bactr- bacterium, stick, club dendr- tree baro- weight dent-, -don't- tooth bath- depth, height derm- skin bene- well, good deuteron- second beta- second di-, dipl- (Latin) two bi- (Latin) two, twice di-, dia- (Greek) across, through, apart bi-, bio- (Greek) life dia- day -blast- that which will germinate digit- finger, toe brachi- arm diplo- double branchi- fin dis-, dys- ill or bad bronch- windpipe dorm- sleep capill- hair dors- back carcino- cancer du-, duo- two cardio- heart -duct leads to dynam- power holo- entire, whole e-, ef-, ek- out of, from homo- (Latin) man, human echin- spiny, prickly homo, homeo (Greek) same, alike ecto- on the outside of hort- garden -ectomy removal hydr- water -emia blood hyper above, excessive endo-, em-, -en inner hyphno- sleep enchephal- brain hypo below, under, less enter- intestine, gut hyster- womb, uterus entom- insect -ia, -iasis disease, abnormal condition -eous nature of, like -ichthy- fish epi- upon, above ign- fire erythro- red infra- below, beneath eso- inward, within, inner inter- between, within, inside eu- true intra- within ex- out intro- into excit- to stimulate iso- same extra- beyond, outside -ist person who deals with -fer bearer -itis inflammation of ferro- iron -ium refers to a part of the body fibr- fibre, thread -kary- cell nucleus -fid, fiss- split, divided into kilo- thousand -flect, -flex bend kin-, kine- move, motion flor- flower lact- milk foli- leaf lat- side fract- break -less without gastr- stomach leuco-, leuko- white, bright, light -gene- origin, birth lign- wood geo earth lingu- tongue -glob- ball, round lip- fat gluc-, glyc- sweet, sugar -logist one who studies glut- buttock -logy study of -gon angle, corner lumin- light -grad- step -lys, -lyt, -lyst decompose, split, dissolving -gram, -graph record, writing macro large grav- heavy mal bad -gross- thick malle- hammer gymno naked, bare mamm- breast gyn- female marg- border, edge halo- salt mast- breast hapl- single, simple maxilla- jaw -helminth- worm med- middle hem-, haem- blood meg-, mega- million, great, very large hemi- half mes- middle, half, intermediate hepar-, hepato- liver meta- beyond or after herb- non-woody plant -meter, -metry measurement heter- other micro- small hex- six milli- thousandth hibern- winter mis- wrong, incorrect hist- tissue mole- mass mono- one pleur- lung, rib, side morph- shape, form ply- many, several mort- death pnemo- lungs, air multi- many -pod foot mut- change por- opening my-, myo- muscle port- carry nas- nose poly many necr- corpse, dead post after, behind nemat- thread pre- before, ahead of time neo- new prim- first nephro- kidney pro- in favour of neur- nerve -proctum anus noct-, nov- night proto- first -node knot pseudo-, psych- false -nom, -nomy ordered knowledge, law pter- having wing or fins non- not pulmo- lung noto- dorsal, back pyr- heat, fire nuc- centre quadr- four ocul- eye quin- five oct- eight radi- ray odont- tooth re, retro again -oma tumour or swelling rect- right, correct ophthalm- eye ren- kidney orb- circle, round, ring rhag-, -rrhage burst forth -orium, -ory place for something rhe-, -rhage flow or discharge ornith- bird rhin- nose orth- straight rhiz- root oscu- mouth sacchar- sugar -osis act, condition sal- salt oste- bone sapr- dead oto- ear saur- lizard ov-, oo- egg sci- know oxy- sharp, acid, oxygen -scribe, -script write paleo- old, ancient semi- half, partly palm- broad, flat sept- partition, seven pan all -septic infection, putrefaction path- disease sess- sit -ped-, pod foot sex- six peri- around -sis condition, state permea pass, go sol- sun phag- eating solv- loosen, free -phil- loving, fond of son- sound phon-, -phone sound -sperm- seed photo- light -spher- ball, round phyl- related group spir-, -spire breathe -phyll leaf spor- spore, seed physio- nature, natural qualities stat, -stasis stop, stand -phyto plant stell- stars pino- to drink stern- chest, breast platy- flat stom-, -stome mouth sub- under, below -troph- nourishment super-, sur-, supra- over, above, on top -ul-, -ule diminutive, small sym, syn binding together ultra- beyond tachy- quick, swift uni- one tax- group, division, arrange ur- urine tel-, tele- far away, distant vas- vessel telo- end ventr- belly, underside terr- earth, land -verge turn, slant tetr- four vig- strong therm- heat vit-, viv- life, living toxi-, toxico- poison -vor- devour, eat trache- windpipe xyl- wood trans- across zo- animal tri- three zyg- united, joined together trich- hair, flagellum