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Chapter 15-16
Bioscientific Terminology: Ayers
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Classics
Undergraduate 2
01/19/2012

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Term

 

 

BRACHY-

Definition

 

 

short

ex: brachysm

Term

 

 

CAC-, KAK-

Definition

 

 

bad

ex: cacophony

Term

 

 

CAU- , CAUS-

Definition

 

 

to burn

ex: holocaust

Term

 

 

CLI-, CLEI-/CLEIST-

Definition

 

 

to close/closed

ex: cleistogamy

Term

 

 

CLY(S)-

Definition

 

 

to wash

ex: cataclysm

Term

 

 

CROT-

Definition

 

 

pulse beat

ex: tricrotism

 

Term

 

 

DOLICH-

Definition

 

 

long

ex: dolichorrhine

Term

 

 

EDE-

Definition

 

 

to swell

ex: edema

Term

 

 

LEPT-

Definition

 

 

thin, delicate

ex: leptocyte

Term

 

 

LOG-

Definition

 

 

word, speech, reason

ex: analogy

Term

 

 

MES-

Definition

 

 

middle

ex: mesentery

Term

 

 

MYX-

Definition

 

 

mucus, slime

ex: myxoma

Term

 

 

OXY-, OX-

Definition

 

 

sharp, acid, oxygen

ex: paroxysm

Term

 

 

PETR-

Definition

 

 

rock

ex: petroleum

Term

 

 

PHON-

Definition

 

 

sound, voice

ex: phonetics

Term

 

 

PHOT-

Definition

 

 

light

ex: photograph

Term

 

 

POIE-

Definition

 

 

to make

ex: poet

Term

 

 

PRESBY-

Definition

 

 

old

ex: presbycusis

Term

 

 

PYR-, PYRET-/PYREX-

Definition

 

 

fire, fever/fever

ex: pyretolysis

Term

 

 

RHIZ-, -RRHIZ

 

Definition

 

 

root

ex: rhizome

Term

 

 

GLAUC-

Definition

 

 

silvery, gray-green

 ex: glaucoma

Term

 

 

GON(Y)-, GONAT-

Definition

 

 

knee

ex: gonarthritis

 

Term

 

 

(H)APT-/(H)APH-

Definition

 

 

to touch/sense of touch

ex: chirapsia

Term

 

 

KARY-, CARY-

Definition

 

 

nucleus, nut

ex: caryoclastic

Term

 

 

KERAT-, CERAT-, KER-, CER-

Definition

 

 

horn, horny tissue, cornea

ex: rhinoceros

Term

 

 

LEPID-

Definition

 

 

scale

ex: lepidosteoid

Term

 

 

NEM-, NEMAT-

Definition

 

 

thread

ex: chromonema

Term

 

 

NOS-

Definition

 

 

disease

ex: paranosic

Term

 

 

ONC-, -ONCUS

Definition

 

 

tumor, swelling

ex: mastoncus

Term

 

 

PHRA-

Definition

 

 

to speak

ex: paraphrase

Term

 

 

PNEUM-, PNEUMAT-

Definition

 

 

air, gas

ex: pneumatic

Term

 

 

PHYLAC(T)-

Definition

 

 

to guard, protect

ex: phylacobiosis

Term

 

 

PORPHYR-

Definition

 

 

purple

ex: porphyria

Term

 

 

SARC-

Definition

 

 

flesh

ex: sarcophagus

Term

 

 

SCLER-

Definition

 

 

hard

ex: sclera

Term

 

 

SEP-

Definition

 

 

to rot, putrify

ex: aseptic

Term

 

 

SIT-

Definition

 

 

food

ex: apositia

Term

 

 

SPLEN-

Definition

 

 

spleen

ex: splenalgia

Term

 

 

STEN-

Definition

 

 

narrow

ex: stenographer

Term

 

 

STERE-

Definition

 

 

solid, 3D

ex: stereoblastula

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