F-R Roots

Exam 3

faci/

ex: facet, pacioplegia

face

fasc/

ex: fascial sheath, fascicle

band, bundle

fauna/

ex: avifauna

animals

febr/

ex: febrile, febricide

fever

fec/

ex: feces, defecate

sediment, dregs

fecund/

ex: fecundity

ability to produce offspring rapidly in large numbers

fertil/

ex: fertile, fertility

capacity to conceive

femin/

ex: feminine

individual that bears young, female

fer/

ex: afferent/efferent. seminiferous, Porifera

to bear, carry

fera/

ex: feral

wild beast

ferv/

ex: effervescence, fervor, fervescence, ferment

boil, hot

fibr/

ex: fiber, fibril, microfibrils, fibrous

fiber, thread-like

fil/

ex: filament, microfilament, filform, filerial

thread

fiss/

ex: fission, fissure

split

flagell/

ex: flagellum

whip

flat/

ex: inflate, deflate

to blow

flex/, flect/

ex: flexor, reflect, gunuflect

bend, turn

flor/

ex: flora, florist, inflorescence

flower, blossom

flu/

ex: flux, reflux, effluence/affluence, confluent

flow

foli/

ex: foliage, foliose, exfoliate

leaf

folli/

ex: follicle

bag

fora/

ex: foramen, perforate

bore, drill

frag/, fract/

ex: fragment, fracture, fraction

break

fruct/

ex: fructose, fructicose, frutivore

fruit

fug/

ex: centrifuge, refuge, fugitive

flee, put to light

furc/

ex: bifurcate

fork

jaund/

ex: jaundice

yellow

jacul/, ject/

ex: imject, eject, ejaculate

throw

jug/, junct/

ex: junction, conjunction, conjugate

join

juven/

ex: juvenile

young

kary/

ex: karyote, prokaryote, karyogamy, dikaryon

nut, kernel, nucleus

kerat/

ex: keratin, keratitis, kertoplasty, keratosis, keratinocyte

horn, cornea

kine/, (cine/)

ex: cytokinesis, kinetic energy, kinesiology, cinema

move