Getting Familiar With Greek and Latin Rootwords in
BIOLOGY
CYTOLOGY – The study of cells.
ERYTHROCYTE – Red Cell (Red blood cell)
LEUKOCYTE – White Cell (White blood cell)
CHONDROCYTE – Cartilage Cell
LEUKEMIA – Condition of the blood being white
(Blood cell cancer producing too many white blood
cells)
CHROMOSOME – Coloured body
LYSOSOME - Dissolving/breaking body
MALIGNANT TUMOUR – Bad tumour (cancer)
EPIDERMIS – Uppermost layer of skin.
HYPODERMIC NEEDLE – Below dermal layer of
skin.
INTRAVENOUS – Within a vein.
INTERCOSTAL – Between ribs.
PINOCYTOSIS – Condition/act of cell drinking.
PHAGOCYTOSIS – Condition/act of cell eating.
PERICARDIAL MEMBRANE – Having to do with
being around the outside of the heart.
PERIODONTITIS – Inflammation of the tissue
around the tooth.
HEPATIC DUCT – Having to do with the Liver.
HEPATITIS – Inflammation of the Liver
HEMOLYSIS – Breaking apart of blood (cells)
MYOCARDIUM – Muscle of the heart
ANALGESIC MEDICINE – Without pain (pain
killer)
FIBROMYALGIA – (MYALGIA) – Muscle Pain.
LACTASE –Enzyme of milk
PULMONARY ARTERY – Pertaining to the LUNGS
CARDIOPULMONARY Resuscitation- Heart and
Lung – Resuscitation.
BRACHIOCEPHALIC ARTERY – Having to do with
the upper arm and head regions.
ANEMIA – Without blood.
AFFERENT ARTERIOLE – Heading toward
something.
AMOEBIC DYSENTERY – Ill or bad intestines
PARAENTERAL NUTRITION - Beside the intestine.
GASTROENTEROLOGIST – Specialist in the study
of the stomach and intestines.
OVIDUCT – OVI = Egg
GASTRITIS – Inflammation of the stomach
MACROPHAGE – Large eater/destroyer
LIPASE – Enzyme of lipids (fats)
EPIGLOTTIS – Above the glottis (hole to trachea)