Root Words
Root Words
Root words
Prefixes
Suffixes
100

sense of pain

algesia

100

feeling, sensation

asthenia

100

vein

phleb/o

100

absent, without

a-, an-

100

many

poly-

200

vessel

angi/o

200

heart shocked to a regular heartbeat

defibrillation

200

speech

phas/o

200
slow

brady-

200

together

sym-, syn-

300

arteri/o

artery

300

obstruction of a blood vessel

embolism

300

formation

plas/o

300

large

macro-

300

blood

-emia

400

cardiac arrest

stopped heart

400

very fast, irregular heartbeat

fibrillation

400

spinal cord, bone marrow

myel/o

400

fast

tachy-

400

rubbing, crushing

-tripsy

500

dactyl/o

fingers

500

foreign particle in the bloodstream

embolus

500

blood clot occluding a vessel

thrombosis

500

bad, difficult, painful

dys-

500

rupture, bursting apart

-orrhexis

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