SCIENTIFIC ROOT WORDS, PREFIXES, AND SUFFIXES a-; anab-able ac-aceous not; without; lacking; deficient away from; out from capable of to; toward of or pertaining to hear
amylanaandroanemoangangianteanteranthoantianthropo-
starch up; back; again man; masculine wind choke; feel pain blood vessel; duct before; ahead of time front flower against; opposite man; human
acou-; acousadadenadipaeroagri-al alb-
to; toward gland fat air field; soil having the character of white
-ap-; -aph- touch apo-; apaquarchaeoaway from water primitive; ancient
alg-; -algia pain altoambiamebamnihigh
-ary; -arium denotes a place for something arteriartery joint; articulation forms names of enzymes
both arthrchange; alternation -ase fetal membrane aster-; astr- star both -ate verb form - the act of...
amphi-; ampho-
ather-ation atmoaudiaurauto-
fatty deposit noun form - the act of... vapor hear ear self bacterium; stick;
calorcapillcapitcarcincardicarncarpcarpal-
heat hair head cancer heart meat; flesh fruit wrist breakdown; downward tail chamber; small room
bacter-; bactrclub barbbarobathbenebeard
cataweight cauddepth; height -cellwell; good bi- (Latin) two; twice centebi-; bio- (Greek) -blastbrachibrachybradybranchibrevbronchcaclife; living centisprout; germ; bud centrarm cephalshort ceratslow cerebrfin cervicshort chelwindpipe chembad
cen-; -cene now; recent pierce hundredth center head horn brain neck claw dealing with chemicals
chirchlorchondr-
hand green cartilage
cresc-; cret- begin to grow crypthidden; covered
-cul-; -cule small; diminutive cumulcuticyanheaped skin blue
chrom-; -chrome color chron-chymtime juice
-cid-; -cis- cut; kill; fall circa-; circumcirrucococccoelcollconicontracorparound; about
-cycle; cycl- ring; circle -cystcyt-; -cyte dactyldedecadecideliquescdemidendrdentdermsac; pouch; bladder cell; hollow container finger away from; down ten tenth become fluid half tree tooth skin two; double through; across;
hairlike curls with; together seed; berry hollow glue cone against body
cort-; cortic- outer layer cosmocotylcountercraniworld; order; form cup against skull
di-; dipl- (Latin) di-; dia- (Greek) apart dia- (Latin) day
digitdindisdormdorsdu-; duo-duct dynamdysecechinecoecto-elle -emia
finger; toe terrible apart; out sleep back two lead power bad; abnormal; difficult out of; away from spiny; prickly house outside of small blood in; into; within
epi-errerythro-escent esoeueuryexextra-ferferrofibr-fid; fiss-
upon; above; over wander; go astray red becoming inward; within; inner well; good; true; normal widen out of; away from beyond; outside bear; carry; produce iron fiber; thread split; divided into
-flect; -flex bend florflower flow
en-; endo-; ent-en encephalenterentom-eous
flu-; fluct-; flux folifract-gamgastrgeoleaf break
made of brain intestine; gut insects nature of; like
marriage stomach land; earth
-gen; -gine producer; former -gene-gest-glen-globglossorigin; birth carry; produce; bear eyeball ball; round tongue
-helminth- worm hemhemiblood half liver
hepar-; hepatherbheterohexhibernhidrhipphist-
grass; plants different; other six winter sweat horse tissue entire; whole man; human same; alike
gluc-; glyc- sweet; sugar glutgnath-gon -gradbuttock jaw angle; corner step record; writing
-gram; graph grav-grossgymnogyngyrheavy thick
holo-
homo- (Latin) homo- (Greek) horthydrhygrhyperhyphhypnohypo-
naked; bare female ring; circle; spiral
garden water moist; wet above; beyond; over weaving; web sleep below; under; less
-hal-; -hale breathe; breath halohaplhectosalt simple hundred
hyster-iac disease -iasis condition -ic ichthyign-
womb; uterus person afflicted with disease; abnormal
keratkilokinelachry-
horn thousand move tear milk side smooth without
former, before, prior fish fire not to; toward; into
lactlatleio-less
in-; il- ; im-; irin-; il- ; im-; irin-ine infrainterintra-ism iso-ist -itis -ium -karykel-
leuc-; leuk- white; bright; light lignlinlinguliplith-; -lite loc-log-logist -logy luminwood line tongue fat stone; petrifying place word; speech one who studies... study of... light decompose; split;
very; thoroughly of or pertaining to below; beneath between within; inside a state or condition equal; same person who deals with... inflammation; disease refers to a part of the body cell nucleus tumor; swelling
-lys-; -lyt-; -lyst dissolve macrlarge
malacmallemammmargmastmedmeg-
soft hammer breast border; edge breast middle million; great black; dark
multimutmymycmycelmyriamollnasnecrnematneonephro-nerneur-
many change muscle fungus threadlike many soft nose corpse; dead thread new; recent kidney moist; liquid nerve
mela-; melan-mer mespart
middle; half; intermediate
met-; meta- between; along; after -meter; -metry micromillimismitomolemonomort-motmorphmeasurement
small; millionth thousandth wrong; incorrect thread mass one; single
noct-; nox- night -node knot ordered knowledge;
-nom-; -nomy law nonnot back center
death notmove nucshape; form obagainst
oculoctodont-oid olfoligo-oma tumor omnioncooopthalmoptorb-
eye eight tooth form; appearance smell few; little abnormal condition; all
ovoxypachypaleopalmpan-
egg sharp; acid; oxygen thick old; ancient broad; flat all
par-; para- beside; near; equal path-; -pathydisease; suffering -pedfoot child five through around pass; go eat show loving; fond of sound bear; carry light mind; diaphragm
mass; tumor -pedegg penteye pereye pericircle; round; ring permeaphag-
-orium; -ory place for something ornithorthoscu-osis osteoto-ous bird phenostraight; correct; right -philmouth phon-; -phone abnormal condition -phore; pherbone photoear phrenfull of
phycphyl-phyll physi-
seaweed; algae related group leaf nature; natural qualities plant
protopseudopsychpterpulmopulspyrquadrquinradirerectrenret-
first; primary false; deceptive mind having wings or fins lung drive; push heat; fire four five ray again; back right; correct kidney net; made like a net burst forth
phyt-; -phyte pinopinniplandrink
feather roaming; wandering form; formed into
plasm-; -plastplatypleurpneumo-pod polyporportpostpompreprimproflat
lung; rib; side lungs; air foot many; several opening carry after; behind fruit before; ahead of time first forward; favoring; before
rhag-; -rrhage rhe-; -rrhea flow rhinrhizrhodorotorubrnose root rose wheel red
saccharsaprsarcsaur-
sugar rotten flesh lizard split; divide
-sperm-spher-
seed ball; round
spir-; -spire breathe -sporseed
schis-; schizsciscler-scopknow hard
stat-; -stasis standing; placed; staying stellstensternstars narrow chest; breast mouth
look; device for seeing write
-scribe; -script semisept-septic sesssex-sis solsolv-
stom-; -stome stratstereostrictstylsublayer
half; partly partition; seven infection; putrefaction sit six condition; state sun loosen; free body
solid; 3-dimensional drawn tight pillar under; below
super-; sur- over; above; on top sym-; syntachytarsotaxteletelotogether quick; swift ankle arrange; put in order far off; distant end
som-; somat-; -some somnsonsleep sound
spec-; spic- look at
terrtetrthall-
earth; land four young shoot
uniur-ura vasvect-
one urine tail vessel carry
-the-; -thes- put -thel-therm-tomtoxicotoptrachetranstritrich-trop-trophturb-ul-; -ule ultracover a surface heat cut; slice poison place windpipe across three hair turn; change nourishment; one who feeds whirl
ven-; vent- come ventr-verge vigvit-; vivvolv-vorxanthxeroxylzo-; -zoa zygbelly; underside turn; slant strong life roll; wander devour; eat yellow dry wood animal joined together yeast
diminutive; small zymbeyond