Important Combining Forms and Suffixes Lesson 45

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MORE NEW IMPORTANT COMBINING FORMS

1. carp/o means wrist bones.

2. cib/o means meals

3. cis/o means to cut

4. cost/o means rib

5. cutane/o means skin

6. dactyl/o means fingers, toes

7. duct/o means to lead, carry

8. flex/o means to bend

9. furc/o means forking, branching

10. glosso/o means tongue

11. glyco/o means sugar

12. immun/o means protection

13. morph/o means shape, form

14. mort/o means death

15. nat/i means birth

16. nect/o means to bind, tie, connect

17. norm/o means rule, order

18. ox/o means oxygen

19. seps/o means infection

20. somn/o means sleep

21. son/o means sound
22. the/o means to put, place

23. thyr/o means shield

24. top/o means place, position, location

25. tox/o means poison

26. trache/o means windpipe, trachea

27. urethr/o means urethra

MORE NEW IMPORTANT SUFFIXES

1. –blast means embryonic, immature cells

2. –cyesis means pregnancy

3. –drome means to run

4. –fusion means to pour

5. –gen means producing

6. –lapse means to slide, tall, sag

7. –lysis means breakdown, separation, loosening

8. –meter means to measure

9. –mission means to send

10. –or means one who

11. –partum means birth, labor

12. –phoria means to bear, carry, feeling (mental state)

13. –physis means to grow

14. –plasia means development, formation

15. –plasm means development, formation

16. –pnea means breathing

17. –ptosis means droop, sag, prolapse

18. –rrhea means flow, discharge

19. –stasis means to stop, control

20. –trophy means nourishment, development

In the next lesson we will see more about more new important prefixes..ok

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