Biological Terms

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• enzyme

• arthro

• heart

• -ase

• joint

• adi,lip

• not, without

• a,an

• fat

• card-

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• atop, upon, over

• epi-

• skin

• -emia

• blood disorder

• derm

• sac, pouch, capsule

• cerv-

• neck

• -cyst

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• flow, discharge

• -scope

• lung

• pulmo-

• to see

• osteo-

• disease

• patho-

• bone

• -rhea

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• yolk (sperm & egg)

• semi, hemi-

• to cut

• -sect

• across

• trans-

• seed

• sperm

• half

• zyg-

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• large

• multi-

• small

• myo-

• study of

• micro-

• muscle

• macro-

• many

• -logy

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• sugar

• omni, toti-

• kidney

• ora-

• egg

• -ose

• mouth

• nephr, renal

• all

• oo, ov-

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• more, excessive

• erythr-

• red

• hypo-

• stomach

• gastr-

• blood

• hyper-

• less, below

• hem-

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• inside

• hepato-

• liver

• leuco, leuko

• inflammation

• intra, endo-

• between

• -itis

• white

• inter-