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Latin & Greek root
Question | Answer |
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Anus | Ring |
Caries | Decay |
Cella | Chamber |
Lues | Plague |
Corpus | Body |
Foramen | Perforation (A hole) |
Fornix | Arch |
Fundus | Bottom, Base |
Hernia | Rupture (burst suddenly) |
Ilium | Flank (the side of a person's body between the ribs and the hip) |
Ligamentum | Binding |
Lens | Lentil (high protein pulse) |
Dens | Tooth |
Bucca | Cheek |
Mens | Mind |
Mensis | Month |
Morbus | Disease |
Meatus | Opening |
Manus | Hand |
Labium | Lip |
Cortex | Bark |
Cutis | Skin |
Fascia | Band |
Nausea | Seasickness |
Bacillus | Little Rod |
Caput | Head |
Soma | Body |
Hymen | Membrane |
Pleura | RIbs, side |
Trauma | Wound |
Hygieia | Health |
Pneuma | Air, breath of air |
Sarx | Flesh |
Pepsis | The act of digestion |
Blast(o) | Germ or bud |
Blenn(o) | Mucus |
Chil(o) | Lip |
Chol/ Chole/ Choli | Bile, gall |
Chondr(o)/ Chondri | Cartilage or gristle |
Copr(o) | Feces, excrement (Waste matter discharged from the bowels) |
Hydr(o) | Water |
Narc | Numbness, stupor |
Pod | Foot, Foot-like |
Pyo | Pus |
Pyr/ Pyret | Fire, Heat, inflammation |
Sphygmo | Pulse, Pulsation |
-agogue | Leader |
-algia/ -odynia | Pain |
-cele | Protrusion (Bulging out), tumor, hernia |
-asthenia | Weak |
-cide | Killing, destorying |
-esthesia | Sensation, Feeling |
-lysis | Breaking down, Loosening, Dissolution |
-malacia | Softening |
-poiesis/ -genesis | Making, Formation of |
-opia | Vision |
-ptosis | Displacement, Falling |
-sclerosis | Hardening of, Stiffening |
-version | Turning, Twisting |