Common Terms and Word Elements for Aliment, Digestion, and Defecation Flashcards
(35 cards)
1
Q
ALIMENT/O
(al‐ĭ‐mĕnt‐ō)
A
Food
2
Q
CIB/O
(sī‐bō)
A
Food, meal
3
Q
SIT/O
(sī‐tō)
A
Food, grain
4
Q
FRUCT/O
(frŭk‐tō)
A
Fruit, fructose
5
Q
CARP/O
(kăr‐pō)
A
Fruit
6
Q
LACT/O
(lak‐tō)
A
Milk, Lactose
7
Q
GALACT/O
(gă‐lăk‐tō)
A
Milk, galactose, galaxy
8
Q
GLUC/O
(gloo‐kō)
GLYC/O
(glī‐kō)
A
sugar, glucose
9
Q
SACCHAR/O
(sak‐ă‐rō)
A
sugar
10
Q
MELIT/O
(mel‐ĭ‐tō)
A
Honey, sugar, bees
11
Q
AMYL/O
(am‐ĭ‐lō)
A
starch
12
Q
PROTE/O
(prōt‐ē‐ō)
A
protein, first, primary
13
Q
ALBUMIN/O
(al‐bū‐mĭ‐nō)
A
Albumin, protein
14
Q
LIP/O
(lĭp‐ō)
A
Fat
15
Q
STEAT/O
(stē‐ă‐tō)
A
Fat, Sebum
16
Q
GLUTIN/O
(gloo‐tĭn‐ō)
A
Sticky, adhesive, gluten
17
Q
ZYM/O
(zī‐mō)
‐ZYME
(zīm)
A
Enzyme, fermentation
18
Q
‐ASE
(ās)
A
Enzyme
19
Q
‐OSE
(ōs)
A
carbohydrate
20
Q
PHAG/O
(făg‐ō)
A
to swallow, eat
21
Q
VOR/O
(vō‐rō)
A
to devour, eat
memorize: carniVORE
22
Q
BOL/O
(bō‐lō)
A
Mass of masticated food, lump, mass
23
Q
PEPT/O
(pĕp‐tō)
PEPS/O
(pĕp‐sō)
A
digestion
24
Q
CHOL/E
(kō‐lē)
A
Bile
25
BIL/I
(bil‐ĭ)
Bile
26
SIAL/O
(sī‐al‐ō)
Saliva
27
SALIV/O
(să‐lī‐vō)
Saliva
28
CHYL/O
(kī‐lō)
Chyle (fluid of the lymph system)
29
CHYM/O
(kī‐mō)
Chyme (nearly liquid mass of digested foot)
30
STERC/O
(stĕr‐kō)
STERCOR/O
(stĕr‐kō‐rō)
Feces
31
COPR/O
(kop‐rō)
Feces
32
SCAT/O
(skă‐tō)
Feces
33
FEC/O
(fē‐kō)
Feces
34
‐CHEZIA
(kē‐zē‐ă)
Defacation
35
EXCRET‐
(ĕks‐krē‐tō)
Defacation
