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Vocabulary Reference Sheet

Prefix or Suffix Definition dodeca- twelve a-, an- without eco-, ecol- home, house -able, -ible able ecto- outer amphi- both -ectomy remove ante- before endo- inside of anti- against epi- over, on top of aqua- water eu- good, true arche- old, ancient ex-, exo- outside of -archy form of government or rule gastro- stomach arthro- jointed geo- land, earth auto- self -gram write, draw, or record bar-, baro- weight, pressure -graph something written or drawn bi-, bis- two hemi- half bio- life hepta- seven carcin- cancer hetero- different cardi- heart hexa- six cereb- brain hist- tissue chem- chemical homeo- like, same chloro- green homo- same (Greek); man (Latin) chondro- cartilage hydro- water chromo- color hyper- above, over circum-, cir- around hypo- below, under co-, com-, con- with, together -ic having to do with contra- opposite or against immuno- immune, immunity -cycle circle, circular inter- between cyan-, cyano- blue intra- within cyt-, cyto- cell -ism the practice of, support of dactyl- Finger, digit or toe -ist one who makes, does de- remove, take away iso- equal, the same deca- ten -itis inflammation or swelling of derm- skin kary- nucleus of a cell di- two -less lacking, without dis-, dif- apart -logy the study of dia- through macro- large Vocabulary Reference Sheet

mal- bad -phyll leaf mega- large phyto- plants -ment the act of, the state of -pod foot meso- in the middle of poly- many meta- change post- after member of a class of pre-, pro- before -mer compounds (chemistry) pulmo- lungs -meter means of measurement quadra- four micro- small, tiny re- again, back mono- one -scope instrument used to observe morph- shape se- apart neo- new semi- partially neur-, neuro- nerves -some body, structure non- not, the reverse of -stasis state of balance nona- nine sub- under, less than octa- eight super-, supra- above, on top of oligo- few syn-, sym- with, together -oma swelling terra- land, earth omni- all tetra- four onco- tumor -thesis to put oo- egg -tomy to cut opto- vision, optics trans- across org- living tri- three ornith-, ornitho- birds -trophic relating to nutrition orth- straight undeca- eleven oste-, osteo- bone un- not -otic, -ote of, relating to un-, uni- one pachy- thick visc- organ para- near, beside xanth-, xantho- yellow path- disease zo-, zoo- animal penta- five -zygous yoked, joined together peri- around -phile one that loves or has a preference for photo- light