Body Parts
Cardi(o).
What is the heart?
The prefix bi-.
What is two?
Necr(o)
What is necrotic or dead?
The pefix multi-.
What is many?
The word part that is added to the beginning of a word that changes the word's meaning.
What is a prefix?
Hepat(o).
What is the liver?
The prefix semi-.
What is partial, half?
Cry(o)
What is cold? as in Cryosurgery.
The prefix mono-.
What is one?
The word part that is added to the end of the word that changes the word's meaning.
What is a suffix?
Encephal(o).
What is the brain?
The prefix tri-.
What is three?
Phot(o).
What is light?
The prefix quadri-.
What is four?
The foundation word of a medical term.
What is a root word or word root? (also called stem word)
Gastr(o).
What is the stomach?
The prefix tetra-.
What is four?
Pharmac(o)
What is a drug or medicine?
The prefix primi-.
What is first?
The name of the "word part" for a vowel added between word roots that makes the word easier to pronounce.
What is a combining vowel?
Gloss(o) or Linguo.
What is the tongue?
The prefix hem-.
What is half?
Phon(o).
What is voice?
The prefix nulli-.
What is none?
The word root in Appendectomy.
What is Append, meaning Appendix?