vocab test 4

1. -zyme (zymo-) Greek: ferment, catalyst

2. zoster Greek: girdle, belt

3. z00 Greek: animal, living

5. zomo-Greek: juice, soup, sauce, broth

6. zeta- Greek: sixth letter of Greek alphabet

7. zephyr/o- Greek/Latin: air, wind

8. zel/o- Greek/Latin fervor, jealousy

9. -y Greek: a suffix that means; state of, condition, quality of, act of,

possibly a noun ending

10. xylo- Greek: wood

11. xiph/o: Greek: sword

12. xer/o: Greek: dry

13. xen/0: Greek: foreign

14. xanth/o-Greek: yellow

15. vast/o wast/0: Latin: open, empty, desert area

16. vascul/o, vas/o: Latin: tubes, ducts, canals

17. varic/o: Latin: swollen or twisted vein

18. vari: Latin: different, changing

19. vap/o: Latin: steam, mist

20. valvul/o: doorlike structure that prevents flowing back, reflux

21. vall: Latin: wall or rampart, row or line of stakes

22. val/o: Latin: to be strong, well, power, strength

23. valg/0: Latin: bow legged

24. vag/o: Latin: wanderer, unsettled

25. vad-: Latin: to go or walk

26. vacu-:Latin: to empty or void

27. vacilla-:Latin: flow, wave, sway back and forth

28. vaccine/o: Latin: cow

29. unc/o-: Greek-Latin: hook, hooked, bent, curved

30. umbr/o: Latin: shade or shadow

31. -um: Greek to Latin: Suffix, singular NOUNS

32. -ulus, -olus,-ulum,-ola: Latin: suffix, little or small

33. ult/o-: Latin: beyond or excessive, extreme

34. -ulous, -ulously: Latin: suffix, tending to do, inclined, full of

35. uln/o: Latin: elbow, (GREEK WORD: OLENE) related to the word ancon

36. ulc/0: Latin: sore spot, sore, painful spot

37. ul/o: Latin: tail

38. ud/o: Latin: rain

39. tax/o- Latin, Greek, French: calculating distance, arrangement,

orientation

40. taur/o: Greek to Latin: Steer, bull

41. tars/o: Greek to Latin: ankle or eye lid plate, broad or flat surface

42. tard/o: Latin: slow or sluggish

43. tang/o: Latin: touch or feel

44. tal/o: Latin: ankle

45. tach/o: Greek: speed, swift, fast

46. tab: Latin: waste away, decaying, languishing

47. sapr/o: Greek: rotten, putrid

48. sanguine/o: Latin: blood

49. sana-: Latin: healthy, whole, cure, heal, sound in mind and body

50. salping/o- Greek: tube

51. saliv/o: Latin: spittle, fluid in the mouth

52. salta-: Latin: leap, jump, hop, spring forward

53. sagitt/o: Latin: arrow

54. sacchar/o: Greek-Latin: sugar, “Sanskrit” gravel, grit

55. ram/i- :Latin: branch, forked structure

56. rad/i- :Latin: ray, radiating (spokes of the wheel)

57. radicul/o-: Latin: little root

58. rhachi/o: Greek-Latin: spine, backbone

59. racem-: Latin: cluster of grapes

60. rab-: Latin: madness, mad, furious

61. quint-: Latin: five

62. quart/o-: Latin: four

63. pan/o-: Latin: bread

64. palyn-: Greek: pollen, spores

65. palpebr-: Latin: eyelids

65. palat/o: Latin: roof of the mouth

66. palae/o: Greek: original, ancient, old, primitive

67. -pagus: Greek: denotes conjoined twins, something fastened or fixed

68. ochr/o: Greek: yellow, pale

69. nata-: Latin: swim, float

70. nasc/o, nat/o: Latin: born, birth

71. narc/o: Greek: numbness, dullness, torpor, deaden, sleep, stupor

72. narciss/o: Greek-Latin: self-admiration, morbid self love

73. nar/o: Latin: nostril

74. nan/o: Greek: dwarf, very small, “little old man” prefix in metric system

75. nev/o: Latin: birthmark, mole

76. malle/0: Latin: hammer

77. mal/a: Latin: cheek, cheekbone

78. magist/o: Latin: chief or leader

79. macul/o:Latin: spot, mark, stain, blemish, mesh

80. -mach: Greek: battle, war, fight, contest

81. laps-: Latin: to slip, fall, glide

82. lapar/o: Greek: soft spot between ribs and hip, flank, loin, wall of

abdomen

83. lambda: Greek: 11th

letter in Greek alphabet, looks like an L (kind of)

84. lancun/o: Latin: small pit, gap

85. labyrinth/o: Greek-Latin: maze, found in inner ear

86. kyph/o: Greek: humpedbacked

87. juxt/a: Latin: close by, near, adjoining, proximity, come together, meet

88. jejun/o: Latin: empty, fasting, hungry, not partaking in food

89. jaune: French: yellow Latin:galbanus: yellow: glabinus: Latin: yellow

green

90. -ida: Latin: suffix, zoological groups, classes, orders

91. -id: Latin: meaning, state or condition, pertaining to, tending to

92. icter/o: Greek: jaundice

93. -ics, -tics: Greek: suffix usually denoting names (nouns) in arts and

sciences

94. icon/o: Greek: likeness, holy, sacred, image

95. -ician: Greek: suffix, specialist

96. ichthy/o: Greek: fish

97. iatr/o: Greek: heal, cure, treat, physician, diseased condition

98. -iasis: Greek-Latin: a process or disease

99. -ian: Latin: suffix -an (pertains to)

100. -ial: Latin: suffix -an, English language we like to put -is, -ius

101. hapt/o: Greek: touch, fasten, seizure, binding

102. hallucin/o: Greek-Latin: wander in mind, dream

103. hall/u: Latin: great toe, big toe, 1st

digit

104. hal-: Latin: breathe, breath (halitus)

105. gangren/o: Greek: eating, gnawing

106. gangli/o: Greek-Latin: swelling, center, knot

107. gam/o: Greek: marriage, union,

108. galact/o: Greek: milk

109. ectr/o: Greek: untimely birth, abortion, defect,

110. -ectasis: Greek: suffix, dilation, expansion, distension of an organ

111. ebull/i: Latin: bubble up, boil

112. delir/i: Latin: madness, crazy, rave, deranged,

113. dactyl/o: Greek: finger, toe

114. dacry/o: Greek: tears, tear-gland

115. calcane/o: Latin: derived from the word calx, calcis “limestone, pebble”

116. bol/o: Greek: throw, send, put

117. bacill/o: Latin: rod, staff, stick