Root Words 4

cryo

cold

cryst

crystal

gen

cause, birth, produce, race

phil

love, loving

scope

look at, view, examine

therap

treatment

-ic

like, related to

-ics

science, related to, system

all-ine

like, realted to

all-ize

to make, to act

-y

state of, quality, act; body, group

cryophilic

capable of living at low temperatures

crystalline

of the nature of crystals

cryoscopy

the science dealing with the determination of the freezing point of liquids

crystallize

cause to form crystals

cryogenics

the science that deals with the production of extremely low tempuratures

cryotherapy

theraputic use of cold

dactyl/dactylio/dactylo

finger, toe

glyph

carve

gram

write, written

ptero

wing, feather

scop

look at, view, examine

zygo

paired

-logy

study of, science

-y

state of, quality, act; body, group

dactylology

the science of communitcating by using hand signs; sign language

zygodactyl

having the toes arranged two in front and two behind

dactylogram

a fingerprint

dactyloglyph

the inscription of the engeravers name on a finger ring or gem

pterodactyl

winged-fingered, prehistoric flying reptile

dactyloscopy

examination of fingerprints for pourposes of indentification

an-

not, without

cardio

heart

echo

sound

gram

write, written

lal

talk, babble

locat

place

-ia

condition

-ic

like, realted to

-ion

an action or process; state, quality, act

echolocation

a means of locating an object using an emitted sound and the reflection back from it

echocardiogram

a noninvasive technique that uses ultrasound to record the functioning of the heart

echoic

formed in imataion of some natural sound

echolalia

involentary parrot-like repetition of a word or phrase just spoken by another; echoing

anechoic

free from echoes and reverberations

anthrop

mankind, man

eo

dawn, early

graph

write, written

lith/litho

stone

paleo

ancient, old

sphere

ball

-cene

new, recent

-ic

like, related to

-us

thing, which

-y

state of, quality, act; body, group

lithosphere

the outer part of the solid earth composed of rock

paleolithic

related to the early stone age

eoanthropus

a genus of early man (comprising only the piltdown man); dawn man

eolith

a very early and crude stone tool

lithography

the process or method of printing from a metal or stone surface

eocene

relating to the second epoch of the tertiary period