DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
HESC 111 Chp 1 Delgado Study Guide
with Complete Solutions
Word Root - Answer✔️✔️-foundation of the word
Prefix - Answer✔️✔️-beginning of a word
suffix - Answer✔️✔️-end of the word
combining vowel - Answer✔️✔️-usually an "o" that links the word
root to another word root or a suffix
bi/o - Answer✔️✔️-life
carcin/o - Answer✔️✔️-cancer
cardi/o - Answer✔️✔️-cardic
chem/o - Answer✔️✔️-chemical
cis/o - Answer✔️✔️-to cut
dermat/o - Answer✔️✔️-skin
enter/o - Answer✔️✔️-small intestine
gastr/o - Answer✔️✔️-stomach
gynec/o - Answer✔️✔️-female
hemat/o - Answer✔️✔️-blood
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immun/o - Answer✔️✔️-protection
laryng/o - Answer✔️✔️-larynx
nephr/o - Answer✔️✔️-kidney
neur/o - Answer✔️✔️-nerve
ophthlam/o - Answer✔️✔️-eye
ot/o - Answer✔️✔️-ear
path/o - Answer✔️✔️-disease
pulmon/o - Answer✔️✔️-lung
rhin/o - Answer✔️✔️-nose
a- / an- - Answer✔️✔️-without
anti- - Answer✔️✔️-against
auto- - Answer✔️✔️-self
brady- - Answer✔️✔️-slow
de- - Answer✔️✔️-without
dys- - Answer✔️✔️-painful; difficult; abnormal
-endo - Answer✔️✔️-within; inner
-epi - Answer✔️✔️-abovie
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