Biological Terms

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• heart

• adi,lip

• joint

• a,an

• not, without

• -ase

• fat

• card-

• enzyme

• arthro

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• blood disorder

• -emia

• sac, pouch, capsule

• derm

• skin

• epi-

• neck

• cerv-

• atop, upon, over

• -cyst

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• disease

• patho-

• flow, discharge

• -rhea

• lung

• pulmo-

• bone

• -scope

• to see

• osteo-

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• across

• sperm

• to cut

• -sect

• half

• zyg-

• seed

• semi, hemi-

• yolk (sperm & egg)

• trans-

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• large

• multi-

• study of

• micro-

• many

• myo-

• muscle

• macro-

• small

• -logy

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• mouth

• nephr, renal

• all

• oo, ov-

• egg

• -ose

• kidney

• omni, toti-

• sugar

• ora-

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• stomach

• gastr-

• blood

• hyper-

• more, excessive

• erythr-

• less, below

• hypo-

• red

• hem-

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• white

• -itis

• liver

• intra, endo-

• inflammation

• inter-

• inside

• leuco, leuko

• between

• hepato-