Addition Roots and combining forms - VT

Roots relating to activities, conditions, or an action.

Audi/o-

hearing

Bio-

life

Caus-

Caut-

Burn

-clas

-clast

break

duct-

lead

-ectas-

dilate

-edem-

swelling

-esthes-

sensation

gen/o-

producing

iatr/o-

treatment

kin/e-

kin/o-

movement, motion

-lysis

-lys/o-

-lytic

breaking down

-morph/o-

form, structure, shape

-op/ia

-ops/ia

-opsy

vision

-path-

-pathy

disease

-phage

phag/o-

eating

-phas-

speech

-phil

affinity, love for

-plegia

paralysis

-poiesis

formation, production

schist/o-

schiz/o-

split, cleft, division

spasm/o-

spasm

-stasis

standing still, stoppage

troph/o-

nourishment, food

brachy-

short

brady-

slow

brev/i-

short

cry/o-

cold

crypt/o-

hidden

dextr/o-

right, right side

dipl/o-

double, twice

dolich/o-

long

gylc/o-

gluc/o-

sugar, sweet

heter/o-

other, different

hom/eo-

hom/o-

same, alike

hydr/o-

wet, water ,fluid

is/o-

equal, alike

lept/o-

slender, small, thin

lev/o-

large

macr/o-

ill, bad

malac/o-

soft, softening

meg/a-

meg/alo-

meg/aly-

large, oversized

necr/o-

death

olig/o-

few, little

orth/o-

straight, normal, correct

pachy-

thick

pale/o-

old, primitive

platy-

flat, wide

ple/o-

more, many

poikil/o-

irregular, varied

-scler/o-

hardness

sinistr/o-

left, to the left

sten/o-

narrow, contracted

stere/o-

solid, three-dimensional

tachy-

rapid, fast

tel/e-

tel/o-

distant, end

therm/o-

heat

xer/o-

dry