Anatomy and Physiology Root Words

Brady

Slow movement

Erythro

Red

Glyco

Sugar or glucose

Gravi

Heavy, weight

Hemi

Half

-ism

Condition with specific characteristics

Morph

Shape or change

Myo

Muscle

-oid

Resembling

Tachy

Fast

A/an

Not, without

Ab

Away, apart

Ad

To, toward

Aero

Air

Ana

Up, away, apart

Archae

Ancient

Anti

against, opposed to, preventing

-ase

Protien, emzyme

Bi

Two

Bio

Life

Cardio

Relating to the heart

Carcin

Cancer

Carni

Flesh, meat

Cerebr

Brain

Chemo

Of, with, or by chemicals

Chloro

Green

Chrome

Color

-cide

Killing

Con/co/com

With, together

Cyto

Cell

Di-/diplo-

Two, double

Dis

Apart, away, oppisire, not

Divers

Different, various

Echo

Outer, outside

Em

In, inside

Endo

Inner, inside

Eu

Well, proper

Exo

Outer layer, outside

Gen

Agent that initiates

Geo

Earth

-gram

Record, writing

Hap

One, single

Herbi

Grass, plants

Hetero

Different

Hist

Tissue

Homo/Homeo

Same

Hydro

Water

Hyper

Above, over

Hypo

Below, Under

Im-/in-

With, into

-lne

Of/pertaining to

Inter

Between

Intra

Within, indide

Iso

Equal

-itis

Inflamation

Kary

Nut

Logy

Study of

lysis

Decompisition

Macro

Largness

Mer

Part

Meso

Middle

Meta

Beyond, between, transition

Micro

Small

Mono

One

-morph

Form

Neuro

Neuron

Oid

Like, resembling

Omni

All

Ose

Carbohydrate or sugar

-osis

Condition or process

Path

Disease

Pena

Breathing

Peri

Around

Phargo

To eat

-philic

Preferebce for, to like

-phobic

Eversion for,

Photo

Light

Phyto

Plants

-pod

Foot

Poly

Many

Pro

Before

Pseudo

False

Re

Again, now

Soma

Body

Sperma

Relating to sperm or seeds

Sphere

Circular

Synthesis

Together, with

Tel-/Telo-

End

-therm

Heat

Tox

Poisonous

Tonic

Strength

Trans

Across

-troph

Nutrition

-topism

response

Uni

One

Vore

Eat

Zoo

Animal