Word Roots And Medical Terminology 3

Front 1

-act-

Back 1

to do, to drive

Front 2

cephal/o

Back 2

head

Hint 2

An octopus is a cephalopod. What is it's biggest feature?

Front 3

cyt/o

Back 3

related to cells

Hint 3

cytoplasm is the liquid inside these

Front 4

dys-

Back 4

painful, bad, difficult, diseased, faulty

Hint 4

dysentery can't be pleasant

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fibr/o

Back 5

fibrous, fiber

Hint 5

If you need a hint on this....

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hetero/o

Back 6

different

Hint 6

a heterogeneous mixture his made up of many distinct, nonsoluble components

Front 7

lip/o

Back 7

fat

Hint 7

liposuction is sucking it

Front 8

micr/o

Back 8

small

Hint 8

microsopes are used to look at ____ things

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necr/o

Back 9

pertaining to death

Hint 9

a necromancer supposedly conjures up the spirits of those past to guide us

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pex/o

Back 10

fixation

Hint 10

pex/fix?

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phob/o

Back 11

abnormal fear

Hint 11

arachnophobia

Front 12

poly-

Back 12

many

Hint 12

some men wouldn't mind being polyamourous, if the women let them

Front 13

rach/i, rachi/o

Back 13

spine

Front 14

retro-

Back 14

backward

Front 15

supra-

Back 15

outside, higher in position, further, on

Hint 15

the skin is supramuscular

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anti-

Back 16

against

Front 17

col/o

Back 17

pertaining to the colon

Hint 17

a colostomy is no fun....

Front 18

dic

Back 18

to say

Hint 18

dictionary, maybe?

Front 19

end/o

Back 19

inside, inner

Hint 19

the endoplasmic reticulum is... um. inside something?

Front 20

homo-

Back 20

same, equal

Hint 20

homeostasis

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kinesi/o

Back 21

movement, motion

Hint 21

kinesthetic people are always _______

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mort

Back 22

to die

Hint 22

mortuary

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myel/o

Back 23

spinal cord, bone marrow

Hint 23

myelin is the white matter coating nerves

Front 24

oo/ovo

Back 24

egg, ovum

Front 25

par/a

Back 25

beside, beyond, near, abnormal

Hint 25

paranomal

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phleb/o

Back 26

vein

Front 27

phleb/o

Back 27

vein

Front 28

pol/y

Back 28

many, too much

Front 29

pro-

Back 29

in front of, before, forward

Hint 29

proactive is acting before

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sanguin/o

Back 30

blood

Hint 30

one of the four "vital humours"

Front 31

super-

Back 31

above, beyond

Hint 31

superimposing one image on another does what?

Front 32

acr-o-

Back 32

top, tip, pertaining to extremities

Hint 32

acrophobia is fear of extreme hights

Front 33

carcin/o-

Back 33

cancerous, malignant

Front 34

di/a

Back 34

through

Front 35

edema

Back 35

excess fluids in cells or tissues

Hint 35

my eye had this for a while after LASIK

Front 36

gingiv/o

Back 36

pertaining to the gums

Hint 36

gotta love gingivitis

Front 37

hidr/o

Back 37

sweat

Hint 37

a hidrocystoma is a cyst of an eccrine gland

Front 38

leps/y

Back 38

attack, seizure

Hint 38

narcolepsy is uncontrollable sleeping seizures

Front 39

metr/o,meter

Back 39

instrument

Hint 39

thermometer

Front 40

nyct/o

Back 40

night

Hint 40

nyctalopia is helped by eating carrots

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orraphy

Back 41

suturing, stitching

Front 42

pharmac/o

Back 42

drugs, medicine

Hint 42

L. Roth has a degree in pharmacology

Front 43

pleg/o

Back 43

paralysis

Hint 43

plegophonia is an inability to speak due to paralyis of the vocal cords

Front 44

post, poster/o

Back 44

after, behind

Hint 44

the butt is a posterior appendage

Front 45

sinistr/o

Back 45

left

Hint 45

FFX-2, Dextral and Sinistral winks

Front 46

syn

Back 46

together, joined

Hint 46

synthesis is a joining together of stuff

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an-

Back 47

without

Hint 47

anhydrous

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caud/o

Back 48

downward, toward the tail

Hint 48

It looks like those big cats on our property had caudectomies.

Front 49

dipl/o

Back 49

double

Hint 49

haploid:diploid::1:?

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esthesi/o

Back 50

feeling, perception

Hint 50

kinesthetic is perception through motion, anesthetic is no feeling

Front 51

hemo/o, hemat/o

Back 51

blood

Hint 51

hemolysis is not a good thing.

Front 52

hyster/o

Back 52

pertaining to the uterus

Hint 52

my anatomy teacher had a hysterectomy

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is/o

Back 53

equal

Hint 53

isotonic, as compared to hypertonic and hypotonic

Front 54

lumb/o

Back 54

pertaining to the loin

Hint 54

the lumbar spine is between the thorax(?) and pelvis

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mes/o

Back 55

middle, average

Hint 55

I'm currently barely mesosane.

Front 56

opthalm/o

Back 56

pertaining to the eye

Hint 56

optometrist, opthamologist

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par/o

Back 57

to bear

Front 58

pod/o

Back 58

foot

Hint 58

amoeba have psuedopods

Front 59

re-

Back 59

again, back

Hint 59

reiterate

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spir/o

Back 60

breath

Hint 60

respire, perspire

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therm/o

Back 61

heat

Front 62

blast/o

Back 62

pertaining to processes of cell/tissue budding

Hint 62

a blastocyst is a ball of cells that differentiate into a full organism

Front 63

calcane/o

Back 63

heel

Hint 63

the calecaneous bone is at the bottom of your foot

Front 64

com-, con-

Back 64

with, together

Hint 64

contract, communicate, all group activities

Front 65

cor/e, core/o

Back 65

pupil

Hint 65

At the Sooner Mall, I underwent corectasis for surgery prep

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emesis

Back 66

vomiting

Hint 66

tossing your cookies

Front 67

extra

Back 67

outside, beyond

Front 68

graph

Back 68

writing

Hint 68

lithograph, EEG

Front 69

infra-

Back 69

below, under

Hint 69

a city's infrastructure is the part that you can't see

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ir/o, irid/o

Back 70

iris

Front 71

later/o

Back 71

the side

Hint 71

lateral, not dorsal or pectoral

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megal/o

Back 72

enlarged

Hint 72

megalocystis is a large bladder

Front 73

mening/o

Back 73

pertaining to membranes around the brain and spinal cord

Hint 73

meningitis inflames these important pathways

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mis-

Back 74

wrong

Hint 74

misnomer

Front 75

omni-

Back 75

everywhere, all

Hint 75

God is omniscient and omnipresent

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peri

Back 76

around

Hint 76

the pericardium is the tissue surrounding the heart