Ms. Caston-Smith Greek Root Review PPt For 1 st Semester exam

meta – change; between; after; beyond eu – good; well hetero – different; other holo – whole homo, homoio, homeo – same; equal; alike Root Review  -mancy –  divination  mim –  copy; imitate  naut, naus –  sailor  para –  beside; beyond; abnormal; variation; assistant; protection from  -plegia –  paralysis

Root Review neur/o – nerve op, ops, opt/o, opthalm/o, -opia, -opsy – eye; visual condition; vision; sight; inspection oste/o – bone tom, -tome, -tomy, -stomy – to cut  polis, polit –  city; town  psycho –  mind  stas, stat, -stasis –  stand; stop; stoppage; stationary

Root Review arthr/o – joint cardio – heart; orifice cephal/o, encephal/o – brain crani/o – skull, crainium gastr/o – stomach hem/o, hemat/o, hema, - emia – blood; blood condition -itis – inflammation -lite, -ite – mineral; rock; stone; fossil

pyr/o – fire; heat; fever crypt/o – secret; hidden lith/o – stone; rock meso – middle necro – dead; death olig/o – few; deficiency pale/o – ancient

ped/o – child phor, phore – to bear; to produce; to carry; state pod, pode – foot; feet chrom/o, chromat/o, chros, - chrome – color; pigment; chromium macro – large; long mega, megal/o, -megaly – large; great; million micro – small pro – before; forward; in place of; in addition to

epi – on; upon; outside; over; among; at; after; to hyp, hypo – under; below; less hyper – above; excessive; beyond; over iatry, iatro – healing; medical treatment alg/o – pain dyn, dynamo – power; energy; strength ecto – outside endo – inside iso – equal; same

phot/o – light pseudo – false cryo – cold therm – heat; temperature cosm/o – universe; world peri – around gen, -gene, -genesis – race; kind; origin acro – high; extremity; tip aero – air neo – new, recent gnos, gnom, gnomon – knowledge helio – sun

cata – down; completely; thoroughly; against; intensive; according to chrono – time esthes, esthet, aesthes, aesthet – feeling; sensation -oid – like; resembling –latry – worship ambi, amphi – both; on both sides; around anti – against; instead of, opposite anthrop – man; human arch, archi, arche/o, archae/o – rule; chief; first; ancient

 poly –  many  di, diplo –  two, double  penta, pent –  five meta – change; between; after; beyond  hex, hexa –  six  holo –  whole  mim –  copy; imitate  tom, -tome, -tomy, -stomy  – to cut

mis – Greek to hate path, pathy – disease; feeling –ics – science; study of; skill; knowledge morph/o – form dia – through; apart; across phon – sound; voice tele – distant; end; complete scope – to view; examine; observe a, an – not; without auto – self; same

hect, hector – hundred bi, bin – two; twice (Latin) log/o – word; discourse; doctrine tetra – four octa, oct, octo – eight gam/o, -gamy, gameto – marriage, united, sexual union dem/o, demi – people soph, sophy – wise; wisdom geo – earth

the, theo – God nom/, nomy – law; rule; management dys – bad; difficult; abnormal; impaired pan, panto – all, every syn, sym, syl, sys – together; same biblio – book mono, mon – one; single; alone –cracy, crat – government; rule; power

andr/o – man; male; stamen apo – away; from; off; separate astro, aster – star derma, dermat/o – skin morph/o – form dont, odont – tooth; teeth ortho – straight; correct dox – belief, praise gyn, gynec – woman; female

cycl/o – circle; wheel onym – name; word –ology, -logy – study of –phobia – fear of bio – life; living things hemi – half hepta, hept – seven kilo – thousand prot, proto – first; primitive, chief