Adjectival Roots and Combining Forms Flashcards by Elizabeth Harris

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Brachy/o-

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Short

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Brady-

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Slow

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Brev/i-

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Short

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Cry/o-

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Cold

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Crypt/o-

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Hidden

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Dextr/o-

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Right, right side

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Dipl/o-

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Double, twice

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Dolich/o-

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Long

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Glyc/o-, gluc/o-

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Sugar or sweet

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Heter/o-

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Other, different

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Hom/eo-, hom/o-

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Same, alike

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Hydr/o-

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Water, wet, fluid

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Is/o-

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Equal, alike

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Lept/o-

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Slender, small, thin

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Lev/o-

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Left, to the left

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Macr/o-

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Large

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Mal-

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Ill, bad

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Malac/o-

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Soft or hardening

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Meg/a, meg/alo, megaly-

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Large, oversided

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Necr/o-

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Death

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Olig/o-

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Few, little

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Pachy-

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Thick

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Pale/o

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Old, primitive

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Platy-

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Flat, wide

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Ple/o

More, many

Poikil/o-

Irregular, varied

Sinister/o-

Left, to the left

Sten/o-

Narrow, contracted

Stere/o-

Solid, three-dimensional

Tachy-

Rapid, fast

Tel/e, tel/o-

Distant, end

Therm/o-

Heat

Xer/o-

dry

Audi/o

Hearing

Gen/o

Producing

Kin/o

Movement, motion

Morph/o

Form, structure, shape

Phag/o

Form, structure, shape

Phag/o

Eating

Schist/o, schiz/o

Split, cleft, division

Spasm/o

Spasm

Troph/o

Nourishment, food

Aqua, hydr/o

Water

Chol/e, chol/o

Bile

Chyle, chyl/o

Milky fluid – product of digestion

Dacry/o, lacrima

Tears

Galact/o, lact/o

Milk

Hem/a, hemat/o, hem/o

Blood

Hidr/o

Sweat

Lymph/o

Lymph

Mucus, muc/o

Secretions of the mucus membranes

Myx/o

mucus

Ptyal/o

Saliva

Pus

Liquid product of inflammation

Py/o

pus

Sanguin/o

Bloody

Serum, ser/o

Clear portion of blood fluid

Sial/o

Saliva, salivary glands

Ur/o

Urine

Adip/o

Fat, adipose tissue

Amyl/o

Starch

Cerumen, cerumin/o

Earwax

Ele/o, ole/o

Oil

Ferr/o

Iron

Lip/o

Fat

Hyal/o

Glassy, translucent substance

Gluco-, glyc/o, sacchar/o, sacchar/i

Sugar

Lith/o

Stone or calculus

Mel/i

Honey or sugar

Heme

Iron-based, pigment part of haemoglobin

Hormone

Body producing chemical substance

Natrium

Sodium

Petrous

Stony hardness

Sal

Salt

Sebum

Sebaceous gland secretion

Albus, alba, alb-

White

Chlor/o, chloros

Green

Chrom/o, chromat/o

Color (as compared with no color)

Cyan/o

Blue

Erythr/o

Red

Leuc/o, leuk/o

White

Melan/o

Black

Phot/o

Light

Poli/o

Gray (relating to gray matter of the nervous system)

Rhod/o

Red

Xanth/o

Yellow, yellowish

Leutin

Saffron yellow

Ruber, rubor

Red, redness