Chapter 2 Root Words

Match the following

• fat

• brachi/o

• front

• cardi/o

• heart

• anter/o

• arm

• abdomin/o

• abdomen

• adip/o

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• tail

• crani/o

• head

• cephal/o

• skull

• caud/o

• neck

• cervic/o

• cartilage

• chondr/o

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• skin

• hemat/o

• leg

• dermat/o

• cell

• crin/o

• To secrete

• crur/o

• blood

• cyt/o

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• intestine

• enter/o

• back

• dermat/o

• skin

• dist/o

• away from

• epitheli/o

• epithelium

• dors/o

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• tissue

• glute/o

• stomach

• gynec/o

• buttock

• hist/o

• immune

• immun/o

• female

• gastr/o

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• lymph

• later/o

• larynx

• lymph/o

• loin

• infer/o

• below

• laryng/o

• side

• lumb/o

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• muscle

• muscul/o

• middle

• medi/o

• kidney

• nephr/o

• nerve

• ophthalm/o

• eye

• neur/o

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• ear

• poster/o

• pleura

• peritone/o

• peritoneum

• ot/o

• pelvis

• pelv/o

• back

• pleur/o

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• genital region

• pub/o

• near

• pulmon/o

• anus

• rhin/o

• lung

• proct/o

• nose

• proxim/o

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• above

• spin/o

• chest

• super/o

• urine

• ur/o

• vessel

• thorac/o

• spinal

• vascul/o