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Combining Forms
LO 1.4 Related to Body parts or Elements
Term | Definition |
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acr/o | air, gas |
ather/o | plaque, fatty substance (inside a blood vessel) |
blast/o | immature cells |
calc/o, calci/o | calcium |
chondrio, chondr/o | cartilage, grainy, gritty |
chyl/o | chyle, a digestive juice |
chym/o | chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach |
cyst/o, cysti | bladder, cyst, cystic duct |
cyt/o | cell |
ethm/o | ethmoid bone |
gluc/o | glucose |
glyc/o | sugars |
hydr/o | hydrogen, water |
ket/o, keton/o | keytone, acetone |
lip/o | fat (outside of a blood vessel) |
nucle/o | nucleus |
plasma, plasmo | formative, plasma |
salping/o | tube |
sider/o | iron |
somat/o | body |
squam/o | scale, squamous (meaning scaly) |
syring/o | tube |