Word Parts with Descriptive Meanings

-coccus

berry-shaped bacterium

-malacia

softening

-megaly

enlargement

-ptosis

droop, sag, prolapse, protrude

ambly/o

dim, dull

ankyl/o

stiff

anxi/o

uneasy, anxious

astr/o

star, star-shaped

atel/o

incomplete

bas/o

base, opposite of acid

brachy-

short

crypt/o

hidden

echin/o

spiny, prickly

lei/o

smooth

mal-

bad

pachy-

heavy, thick

petr/o

stone, petrous region of temporal bone

scirrh/o

hard

xer/o

dry, dryness