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Mixed Bag
Key Roots, Suffixes, and Prefixes
Term | Definition |
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Aden/o | gland |
Adip/o | fat |
Albin/o | white |
Auto/o | self |
Cutane/o | skin |
Cyan/o | blue |
Derm/o | skin |
Erythem/o | red |
Hidr/o | sweat |
Ichthy/o | dry/scaly |
Kerat/o | hard |
Melan/o | black |
Necr/o | death Is the morphological changes indicative of cell death caused by enzymatic degradation. |
Pil/o | hair (resembling or composed of hair-pilocystic) |
Seb/o | sebum/oil If you suffer from oily skin, shiny skin, or acne you’ve probably given the amount of oil or sebum your body produces some thought. In simplest terms, sebum is just oil secreted by your skin’s sebaceous glands |
Staphyl/o | cluster refers to shapes that resemble clusters, as in a bunch of grapes |
Trich/o | hair A mental disorder called trichotillomania is a behaviour disorder that makes people feel the urge to pull their hair out. |
Ungu/o | nail "fingernail or toenail" |
Xanth/o | yellow |
Arth/o | joint |
Chondr/o | cartilage |
Cost/o | rib |
Fasci/o | fibrous tissue |
Lamin/o | lamina |
-malacia | softening |
My/o | muscle |
Myel/o | bone marrow/spinal cord |
Oste/o | bone |
Spondyl/o | vertebra |
amni/o | amnion |
ante- | before |
arche/o | first |
crypt/o | hidden |
culd/o | cul-de-sac |
endo- | in |
episi/o | vulva |
fet/o | fetus |
galact/o | milk |
gynec/o | female |
hymen/o | hymen |
lact/o | milk |
mamm/o | breast |
men/o | menstruation, month |
multi- | many |
nat/a, nat/i | birth neonatology |
neo- | new |
obstetr/o | pregnancy/childbirth |
olig/o | few |
perine/o | perineum |
post- | after |
prim/i- | first |
pseudo- | false |
retro- | backwards |
arche/o | first |
cephal/o | head |
fet/o | fetus |
nata, nat/i | birth |
primi- | first |
retro- | backwards |
-version | turning conversion |
spin/o | spine |
-stenosis | narrowing |