Biological Terms

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• not, without

• card-

• joint

• arthro

• fat

• adi,lip

• enzyme

• -ase

• heart

• a,an

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• neck

• cerv-

• atop, upon, over

• derm

• blood disorder

• -cyst

• sac, pouch, capsule

• -emia

• skin

• epi-

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• flow, discharge

• -scope

• bone

• patho-

• to see

• osteo-

• lung

• pulmo-

• disease

• -rhea

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• to cut

• trans-

• across

• -sect

• yolk (sperm & egg)

• zyg-

• half

• sperm

• seed

• semi, hemi-

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• study of

• -logy

• many

• macro-

• large

• myo-

• muscle

• micro-

• small

• multi-

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• mouth

• oo, ov-

• all

• nephr, renal

• egg

• omni, toti-

• kidney

• ora-

• sugar

• -ose

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• more, excessive

• hem-

• blood

• hypo-

• stomach

• hyper-

• red

• gastr-

• less, below

• erythr-

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• liver

• intra, endo-

• white

• leuco, leuko

• inflammation

• inter-

• between

• -itis

• inside

• hepato-