Word parts
Prefixes, suffixes and roots: learn one and every word built from it becomes readable.
combining vowel
kum-BYE-ning VOW-ul · sustantivo
A vowel, usually o, placed between word parts to make a medical word easier to say, as in arthr/o/pathy.
Entrada completaKAP-nee-uhA word ending that means carbon dioxide in the blood.
-celeParte de palabraseelA word ending that means a hernia, swelling or bulge.
-centesisParte de palabrasen-TEE-sisA word ending that means a puncture with a needle to draw out fluid.
-cideParte de palabrasydeA word ending that means killing, or something that kills.
-crineParte de palabrakrin or kryneA word ending that means to secrete, or release a substance.
-cyteParte de palabrasiteA word ending that means cell.
calc/oParte de palabraKAL-kohA word root that means calcium.
carcin/oParte de palabraKAR-sin-ohA word part that means cancer.
cardi/oParte de palabraKAR-dee-ohA word part that means heart.
carp/oParte de palabraKAR-pohA word part that means wrist.
cephal/oParte de palabraSEF-uh-lohA word part that means head.
cerebr/oParte de palabraSAIR-uh-brohA word part that means the cerebrum, the largest part of the brain, or the brain in general.
cervic/oParte de palabraSER-vih-kohA word part that means neck, or the cervix, the narrow lower end of the uterus.
chlor/oParte de palabraKLOR-ohA word part that means green; in chemistry words it stands for chlorine.
chol/eParte de palabraKOH-leeA word root that means bile or gall.
cholecyst/oParte de palabrakoh-luh-SIST-ohA word part that means the gallbladder.
choledoch/oParte de palabrakoh-LED-uh-kohA word root that means the common bile duct.
chondr/oParte de palabraKON-drohA word root that means cartilage.
chrom/oParte de palabraKROE-moeA word root that means color.
circum-Parte de palabraSER-kumA word beginning that means around.
col/oParte de palabraKOH-lohA word root that means colon, the large intestine.
colp/oParte de palabraKOL-pohA word part that means vagina.
combining formkum-BYE-ning formA word root joined to its combining vowel, written with a slash, such as hepat/o for liver or gastr/o for stomach.
combining vowelkum-BYE-ning VOW-ulA vowel, usually o, placed between word parts to make a medical word easier to say, as in arthr/o/pathy.
con-Parte de palabrakonA word beginning that means with or together.
contra-Parte de palabraKON-truhA word beginning that means against or opposite.
cor/oParte de palabraKOR-ohA word root that means the pupil of the eye.
cortic/oParte de palabraKOR-tih-koeA word root that means cortex, the outer layer of an organ.
cost/oParte de palabraKOS-tohA word part that means rib.
crani/oParte de palabraKRAY-nee-ohA word part that means the skull.
cry/oParte de palabraKRY-ohA word root that means cold.
cutane/oParte de palabrakyoo-TAY-nee-ohA word root that means skin; derm/o and dermat/o mean the same.
cyan/oParte de palabraSY-uh-nohA word root that means blue.
cyst/oParte de palabraSIS-tohA word root that means bladder, most often the urinary bladder, or a sac.
cyt/oParte de palabraSY-tohA word part that means cell.
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