a- G, not, without ab L, away from ad- L, next to, at, toward alb- white algesi- sensitivity to pain -algia pain allo- G, allos - other amphi- G, amphis - double amylum L, starch ana- G, upon, upward ante L, before anter- L, front anti- G, opposite, against apis L, bee apo- G, away from arch- G, archein - to begin asinus L, ass (couldn't resist including this one) athero- yellow auto- G, autos - self, same bi- L, two bio G, bios - life calor L, heat carcin- cancer cardiac G, kardia - heart caryo- G, karyon - kernel cata- G, down from catabolism G, katabole - a throwing down catalyst, G, luein - to loosen, to untie cephalo- G, kephale - head -centesis surgical puncture centi- L, centum - hundred centri- L centrum - center cerebr- L, cerebrum - brain chorde G, string chlor- green chrom-color -cidal killing circum L, around com- L, cum - with, together (in English, has often become co-) contra- against corpus L, body cortex L, outer rind, bark crin-/-crine secrete cyan-blue cyto-/-cyte G kytos - container dec- L, decem - ten demos G, population derma G, skin di- G, two distal L, distare - to stand apart dorsal L, dorsum - back duo- L, two dura- L, durus - hard dys- bad, difficult ecosystem G, oikos - habitation ecto- G, ektos - outside, external -ectomy removal -edema swelling endo- G, endon - inside endocrine G, krinein - to separate enzyme G, zyme - to leaven epi- G, on, upon, outer ergon G, work erythro- G, erythros - red eu- G, eus - good evolution L, evolutio - unrolling ex-, exo- L out of, outside gastr- stomach -gen G, genos - birth, race genesis G, source ger- old glyc- G, glykys - sugar gram-to record -gram a record -graph instrument for recording -graphy process of recording hem-/-emia G, haima - blood hemi- half hist- tissue holo- G, holos - whole

homo-/homeo- G, homoios - alike, similar hydr- G, hydor - water -ia/-iasis condition -iatrics/-iatry medicine infra- L, below in situ L, in place inter- L, between intra- L, within in vitro L, in glass in vivo L, in the living iso- G, equal -itis inflammation kary- nucleus G, karyon - kernel -lepsy seizure leuko- G, leukos - white lip- G, lipos - fat -logist G, logos - word, study - one who studies -logy study or science lysis G, loosing macro- G, makros - large mal- bad mega- G, megas - great, large melon black -mere G, meros, part meso- G, mesos - middle meta- G, after, later metabole G, change micro- G, mikros - small microbe G, bios - life mono- G, monos - one -morphe, morpho- G, form, shape myo- G, mys - mouse, muscle nano- L nanus - dwarf nema- G thread neo- new nephro- G, nephros - kidney oct- L, octo - eight olig few -oma tumor omni- L, omnis - all onc- tumor oo- G, oion, egg -osis condition, disease, increase osteo- G, osteos - bone ov- L, ovum - egg pan G, all para- G, near, beside path/-pathy G, pathos, suffering, disease pent- L, pente - five per- L, per - through peri G, round, surrounding phagein G, to eat photo- G, phos - light -plasty surgical repair -pod. pod- G, podion - little foot poly- G, polys - many post L, after pre- G, before pro- L, before proxi- L, proximus - nearest pseudo- L false quat- L, quatuor - four re L, back, again renes L, kidneys sept- L, septum - seven sex- L, six soma G, body sub- L, below, under super L, above syn- joined together tarsal G, ankle tele- G, far off, at a distance -tome G, tomos - slice topos G, place tot-, toti- L, totus - whole trans L, across tri- G, three trophe G, food un- L, unus - one