Unit 1 Vocabulary (Boehm)

A, an

Not, without

Ad

Towards

Amph

Double, both

Arthro

Joint

Auto

Self

Bio

Life

Blast

Germ, embryo

Cardi

Heart

Chlor

Green

Chrom

Color

Cide, cis

To kill

Cyt

Cell

De

Without

Derm

Skin

Ecto, exo

Outside of

Endo, en

Within

Epi

Above, upon

Gastr

Stomach

Gen

Origin

Glyc, sacchar, -ose

Sugar

Hem

Blood

Herb

Plants

Hetero

Other, different

Hom

Same, alike

Hydro

Water

Hyper

Over, above

Hypo

Below, beneath

Im, in

Not

Inter

Between

Intra

Within

Itis

Inflammation

Lys

Break

Macro

Large, long

Mes

Middle, between

Meta

After, beyond

Meter

Measure

Micro

Small, as a metric prefix 10^-6

Mono, uni

One, single

Myo

Muscle

Neo

New

Nom

Name, order

-oid

Resemble, like

Ology

Study of

Ortho

Straight, correct

Path

Disease

Ped, pod

Foot

Phage

Eat

Phob

Fear

Photo

Light

Phil

Love

Poly, multi

Many

Pseudo

False

Sub

Below

Syn

Together, with

Tele, telo

Far, end

Therm

Heat

Trans

Across

Vore, troph

Consume

Zoo

Animal