Med. Terms. Ch. 18

  1. in-
    im-
    • into, on
    • example: incorporate, impression
  2. in-
    im-
    • not, without
    • example: invertibrate, immaculate
  3. anth-
    • flower
    • example: monanthous
  4. bry-
    • moss
    • example: bryology
  5. carp-
    • fruit
    • example: carpophagous
  6. cortic-
    • bark, cortex
    • example: corticate
  7. dendr-
    • tree
    • example: dendroid
  8. ram(i)-
    • branch
    • example: ramiform
  9. foli-
    • leaf
    • example: plurifoliate
  10. phyll-
    • leaf
    • example: phyllophagous
  11. herb(i)-
    • grass
    • example: herbivorous
  12. caud-
    • tail
    • example: caudad
  13. helminth-
    • worm
    • example: helminthiasis
  14. herpet-
    • snake, reptile
    • example: herpetology
  15. verm(i)-
    • worm
    • example: vermicide
  16. hipp-
    • horse
    • example: hippodrome
  17. ichthy-
    • fish
    • example: ichthyophagous
  18. ornith-
    • bird
    • example: ornithoid
  19. pter-
    pteryg-
    • wing, fin
    • example: dipterous, pterygoid
  20. penn-
    • feather
    • example: pennate
  21. fil(i)-
    • thread
    • example: filiform
  22. pil(i)-
    • hair
    • example: piliferous
  23. ventr-
    ventr(i)-
    • stomach, belly
    • example: ventrodorsal, ventricle
  24. zo-
    • animal, living creature
    • example: zoogenous
  25. carn(i)-
    • flesh
    • example: carnivore
  26. col-
    • inhabitant
    • example: sanguicolous
  27. ec-
    • house, environment
    • example: ecology
  28. corpor-
    • body
    • example: corporeal
  29. morph-
    • form, shape
    • example: homomorphous
  30. nomin-
    • name
    • example: innominate
  31. onym-
    onom-
    • name
    • example: pseudonymous, onomatology
  32. gymn-
    • naked, uncovered
    • example: gymnocarpous
  33. viv(i)-
    • alive, living
    • example: vivisection
  34. xen-
    • foreign, strange
    • example: xenophobia
  35. de-
    • to bind, to fuse
    • example: spondylosyndesis
  36. pel-
    puls-
    • to push, to drive
    • example: compel, expulsion
  37. sect-
    • to cut
    • example: quadrisection
  38. tax-
    • to arrange
    • example: taxonomy
  39. trop-
    • to turn
    • example: phototropic
  40. vor-
    • to eat, to consume
    • example: amphivorous
  41. -ion
    -ation
    • action, condition
    • example: propulsion, defoliation
  42. -cide
    • killing agent
    • example: herbicide
  43. -nomy
    • regulation
    • example: autonomy
  44. -plasia
    • formation
    • example: euplasia
  45. -facient
    • producing
    • example: sanguifacient
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Med. Terms. Ch. 18
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