CLAS 205 Quiz 2

asc

bag

branchi

grills

carp

fruit

cele

hernia, swelling

colp

vagina

gene

to be produced, to produce

gon

seed

heli

sun

mer

part

nyct

night

onym

name

oo

egg

pachy

thick

pen

deficiency, want

phleb

vein

phthi

to waste away

phyc

seaweed, algae

pto

to fail

salping

tube, specially "eustachian or fallopian tube"

saur

lizard

xanth

yellow

ize

to make, to treat, to do something with

agra

painful seizure

cente

to puncture

chir cheir

hand

cel coel

cavity, abdominal cavity

dendr

tree

hyal

glass, vitreous body of the eye

laryng

larynx

lei

smooth

malac

soft

mastig

whip, flagellum

mis

hate

pter pteryg

wing, fin

schiz schis

to split

splanchn

entrails, viscera

thi

sulfur

thorac

chest, thorax

tox

poison

trich

hair

xer

dry

Rhodes

Where was Helios especially worshipped?

nyctos

night, watches of the night, the goddess of the night

Kos

where is Hippocrates from?

All

other, different

ankyl

bent, stiff, adhesion of parts

cycl

circle, wheel, ciliary body of the eye

er erot

love

geny

jaw, cheek

geni

chin

hol

whole, entire

hom home

same, similar

hypn

sleep

ide

idea, mental image

leuk

white

ont

being, individual

phyl

race, class

pyel

pelvis, especially of the kidney

pyg

buttocks

stear steat

fat, tallow

strept, stroph

turned, twisted

thall

young shoot

thym

mind, emotions

trib trip

to run, to crush

zyg

yoke

ammonia

the temple of Zeus Ammon; alkaline compound of nitrogen and hydrogen

aphrodisiac

Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty; substance which excites sexual desire

hermaphrodite

Hermaphroditus, who became joined in one body with a nymph; having both male and female reproductive organs

narcissism

Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection in a pond-self-love, in psychiatry, fixation of libido on one's own body

Palinuridae

Palinurus, Aeneas's pilot; family of decapod crustaceans comprising the spiny lobsters

Charon evagatus

Charon, ferryman who took souls across the river Styx; yellow fever virus

Eacles penelope

Penelope, Odysseus's faithful wife who wove a tapestry; moth that weaves a cocoon

tendon of Achilles

-Achilles, famous warrior vulnerable only in the heel -strong tendon joining the muscles in the calf of the leg to the bone of the heel

hemi

half

mon

single, one

prot

first, original, primitive

di

twice, double

dich

in two

deut deuter

second

tri

three

tetra

four

pent

five

hex

six

hept

seven

oct

eight

enne

nine

dec

ten

hect

hundred

kilo

one thousand

Oresteia

Trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus

branchy

short

cac

bad

cau

to burn

cli

to close

cleist

closed

cly

to wash

crot

pulse beat

dolich

long

ede

to swell

lept

thin, delicate