Root Words

aden

gland

adip

fat

aer

air or gas

angi

vessel or channel (blood or lymph)

append, appendic

appendix

arteri

artery

arthr

joint

bacteri

bacteria

blast

primitive, germ cell

blephar

eyelid

bronchi

bronchial tube, bronchi

bucc

cheek

carcin

cancer

cadrdi

heart

carp

carpus, wrist bones

cephal

head

cerebr

brain, cerebrum

cervic

neck, neck of an organ

cheil

lip

chir

hand

cholangi

bile vessel

chole

bile, gall

cirrh

yellow

cis

cut

col

colon

cost

ribs

crani

head, cranium, skull

cutane

skin

cyan

blue

cyst

bladder, cyst, sac

cyt

cell

dacry

tear

dactyl

fingers or toes

derm, dermat

skin

diaphor

sweat

dipl

double

dips

thirst

doch

duct

edemat

swelling

encephal

brain

episi

vulva

erythem

flushed, redness

erythr

red

esthesi

feeling

eti

cause

gastr

stomach

glauc

gray

gloss

tongue

gnos

knowledge

herni

hernia

hemangi

blood vessels

hepat

liver

hidr

sweat, water

hydr

sweat, water

idi

individual, self, distinct

intestin

intestine

isch

hold back, suppress, deficiency, blockage

later

side

lept

thin, slender, delicate

leuk

white, colorless, related to leukocyte

lip

fat

lith

stone

med

middle

men

menstruation, menses

morph

shape, form

muscul

muscule

my

muscle

nas

nose

nat

birth

nephr

kidney

neur

nerve

norm

rule, order, normal

olig

scanty

onc

mass, tumor

oste

bone

phag

eat, swallow

proxim

near

py

pus

pyr

fever

ren

kidney

rhin

nose

schiz

split

scler

hard, relationship to scleara

somat

body

splen

spleen

steat

fat

trache

trachea or windpipe

xer

dry