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 completaskluh-ROH-sisA word ending that means abnormal hardening of a tissue.
-scopeParte de palabraskohpA word ending that means an instrument for looking or examining.
-scopyParte de palabraskuh-peeA word ending that means looking at or examining, usually with an instrument.
-sisParte de palabrasisA word ending that means a state, condition or process.
-spasmParte de palabraSPAZ-umA word ending that means a sudden, involuntary tightening of a muscle.
-stasisParte de palabraSTAY-sisA word ending that means stopping, slowing or staying the same.
-stenosisParte de palabrasteh-NOE-sisA word ending that means narrowing of a passage or opening.
sacr/oParte de palabraSAY-kroeA word root that means the sacrum, the triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spine.
salping/oParte de palabrasal-PING-gohA word root that means tube, most often the fallopian (uterine) tube.
sarc/oParte de palabraSAR-kohA word root that means flesh, or the body's muscle and connective tissue.
scapul/oParte de palabraSKAP-yoo-loeA word root that means the scapula, the shoulder blade.
scler/oParte de palabraSKLAIR-ohA word root that means hard, or the sclera, the white of the eye.
scoli/oParte de palabraSKOH-lee-ohA word part that means crooked or curved.
seb/oParte de palabraSEB-ohA word root that means sebum, the oily substance made by glands in the skin.
semi-Parte de palabraSEM-eeA word beginning that means half or partly.
sial/oParte de palabrasy-AL-ohA word root that means saliva or the glands that make it.
sigmoid/oParte de palabraSIG-moy-dohA word root that means the sigmoid colon, the S-shaped last part of the colon before the rectum.
somat/oParte de palabrasoh-MAT-ohA word root that means the body.
son/oParte de palabraSON-ohA word root that means sound.
sperm/oParte de palabraSPUR-mohA word root that means sperm, the male reproductive cell.
spir/oParte de palabraSPY-rohA word root that means breathing.
splen/oParte de palabraSPLEN-ohA word root that means spleen.
spondyl/oParte de palabraSPON-dih-lohA word part that means vertebra, one of the bones of the spine.
steat/oParte de palabrastee-AT-ohA word part that means fat.
stern/oParte de palabraSTER-nohA word part that means the sternum, the breastbone.
strept/oParte de palabraSTREP-toeA word root that means twisted chains.
sub-Parte de palabrasubA word beginning that means under, below or less than.
suffixSUF-iksA word part added to the end of a word or root to change its meaning.
super-Parte de palabraSOO-perA word beginning that means above, beyond or more than normal.
supra-Parte de palabraSOO-pruhA word beginning that means above or over.
syn-Parte de palabrasinA word beginning that means together or joined; it is spelled sym- before b, m and p.
synov/oParte de palabrasih-NOE-voeA word root that means the synovial membrane, the lining of a joint, or the fluid it makes.
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