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1. organo-, organ- (Greek: an organized structure; pertaining to a specific bodily part with a specific function or set of functions; instrument, tool, implement)  (14 matching results)
   
   
2. hormo-, hormono-: chemicals from body organs, to rouse or to set in motion; part 1 of 1   (four matching results)
   
   
3. gyno-, gyn- (woman, women, female, females): gynemimetophilia to trigynous, part 2 of 2   (four matching results)
   
   
4. algesi-, -algia (pain, sense of pain; painful; hurting) words: acromelagia to xiphoidalgia, A-X  (four matching results)
   
   
5. iso-, is- (equal, same) words: isoimmunization to isozooid, part 2 of 2   (three matching results)
   
   
6. diverticul- (Latin: [from di-, "apart" and vertere, "to turn"] by-road, digression, deviation; to turn away, go in different directions)  (three matching results)
   
   
7. algesi-, -algia (pain, sense of pain; painful; hurting) words: neogamalgia, and xiphoidalgia, part 3 of 3   (three matching results)
   
   
8. hernio-, herni- (Latin: protruded viscus; rupture; in the sense of "protrusion of tissue or part of an organ through an abnormal opening in the surrounding walls")  (two matching results)
   
   
9. adeno-, aden- (gland, glandular) words: adenalgia to anadenia, part 1 of 2   (two matching results)
   
   
10. orgasm, orgasms, orgasmic, orgastic (Greek > Latin > French: excitement or violent action in an organ or part)  (two matching results)
    
    
11. patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): pathognomonic to psychopath, part 5 of 6 medical words  (two matching results)
    
    
12. homo-, hom- (same, equal, like, similar) words: homatomic to homomorphic, part 1 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
13. tacho-, tachy- (fast, speed, swift) dictionary words: acestachy to tachyzoite, part 1 of 1   (two matching results)
    
    
14. dys- words (bad, harsh, wrong; ill; hard to, difficult at; slow of; disordered; used as a prefix): dysmetria to trichothiodystrophy, part 2 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
15. gonado-, gonad- (Latin: ovary or testis; based on Greek gonos, "seed" and gone, "that which generates; origination; seed; semen")  (two matching results)
    
    
16. eco-, oeco- (house, household affairs; environment) words: eco-organ to synoecy, part 2 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
17. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words  (two matching results)
    
    
18. spleno-, splen-, splenico-, spleni-, -splenism, -splenia, -splenic (Greek: spleen, "the inward parts;" the elongated accessory lymphatic organ of the vascular [blood] system)  (two matching results)
    
    
19. andro-, andr- (man, men, male, masculine; also, stamen) words: andropara to triandrous, part 2 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
20. phallo-, phall-, phalli- (Greek: an image of the male organ of generation; a stick of wood cut as a symbol of the male organ and carried in Bacchic processions; the penis)  (two matching results)
    
    
21. thaumato-, thaumat- (Greek: wonder, wondrous thing; miracle; a thing to look at; sight, spectacle)  (two matching results)
    
    
22. chemo-, chem- (chemical actions or chemicals) words: agrichemical-thermochemistry   (two matching results)
    
    
23. Prefixes a-, an- words: asemia to tritanopia, part 4 of 4   (two matching results)
    
    
24. hetero-, heter- (different, other, another, unlike) words: heteracanth to heterologous, part 1 of 2   (two matching results)
    
    
25. Prefixes a-, an- words: abacterial to alexia, part 1 of 4   (two matching results)
    
    
26. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biochron to biodynamics, part 4 of 20   (one matching result)
    
    
27. grapho-, graph-, -graphy (to scratch; write, record, draw, describe) words: oceanographer to photobiography, part 8 of 11   (one matching result)
    
    
28. psych-, psycho- (mind, mental process, life, soul, spirit) dictionary words: psychoasthenics to psychogenic, part 4 of 7   (one matching result)
    
    
29. duct-, -duction (to lead, lead, leading, bring, take, draw) vocabulary words: produce to viaduct, part 4 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
30. Prefixes a-, an- words: anopia to asemasia, part 3 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
31. serra-, serri-, serr- (Latin: saw, saw-tooth)  (one matching result)
    
    
32. hetero-, heter- (different, other, another, unlike) words: heterolysis to heterozoic, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
33. allelo-, allel- (Greek: one another, of one another; literally, "the other"; reciprocally; in mutual relation)  (one matching result)
    
    
34. adipo-, adip- (fat, lard, fleshy): adipis to hyperadiposis   (one matching result)
    
    
35. dys- words (bad, harsh, wrong; ill; hard to, difficult at; slow of; disordered; used as a prefix): acrodysesthesia to dysmentia, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
36. zoo-, -zoon (animal, living being; life) dictionary words: zooecology to zoology, part 3 of 5   (one matching result)
    
    
37. -cole, -colous (inhabit, live, dwell) words: agaricole to hylocole, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
38. -her-, -hes- (Latin: stick to, cling to, cleave to)  (one matching result)
    
    
39. tri-(three, thrice, threefold) dictionary words: triact to tricycle, part 1 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
40. fecund- (fruitful, fertile) words: fecund to unfecundated   (one matching result)
    
    
41. zoo-, -zoon (animal, living being; life) dictionary words: zoophile to zooxanthella, part 5 of 5   (one matching result)
    
    
42. patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): oculopathy to pathogens, part 4 of 6 medical words   (one matching result)
    
    
43. thermo-, -thermy (heat, hot, warm) dictionary words: thermocauterectomy to thermogravimeter, part 4 of 6   (one matching result)
    
    
44. acous-, -acoustical words: acouasm to acoutometer, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
45. -onym, -nym (name) words: acronym to typonym   (one matching result)
    
    
46. malaco-, malac-, malako-, -malacia (Greek: soft, softness; abnormal softening, soft-bodied)  (one matching result)
    
    
47. grapho-, graph-, -graphy (to scratch; write, record, draw, describe) words: cathodography to cystourethrography, part 3 of 11   (one matching result)
    
    
48. hapto-, hapt-, -hapte (Greek: touch, fasten, contact, seizure; binding, attaching)  (one matching result)
    
    
49. clys (Greek: to wash; washing)  (one matching result)
    
    
50. peni-, peno-, peo- (Greek > Latin: tail; male organ of copulation, the penis)  (one matching result)
    
    
51. placento-, placent-, placenta- (Latin: flat cake; cakelike mass, especially the uterine organ that connects the mother to the child by way of the umbilical cord)  (one matching result)
    
    
52. umbra-, umbro-, umbr-, umbel- (Latin: shade, shadow)  (one matching result)
    
    
53. pineal-, pinea- (Latin: pine tree, relating to the pine; shaped like a cone)  (one matching result)
    
    
54. jejuno-, jejun- (Latin: the fasting [intestine], the portion of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum [so named because early anatomists typically found this organ to be empty in dissection]; original meaning, "hungry, not partaking of food")  (one matching result)
    
    
55. acous-, -acoustical words: acusis to telacousis, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
56. lumen-, lumin- (light, shine; torch, lamp; heavenly body) words: bioluminescence to unilluminated  (one matching result)
    
    
57. chrono-, chron- (time) words: dendrochronology to tephrochronology, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
58. ceno-, cene-, cen-, ceoen- ceoene-, coeno-, coen-, coino-, coin-, kaino-, kain-, koino-, koin- (Greek: common, shared)  (one matching result)
    
    
59. necro-, necr- (dead, death): adiponecrosis to thrombonecrosis  (one matching result)
    
    
60. aero-, aer- (air, mist, wind) words: aeroacoustics to anaerogenic, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
61. gram- (write, written): words accelerogram to fathogram, part 1 of 3   (one matching result)
    
    
62. funct-, fungi- (Latin: to perform, execute, discharge; performance, service, execution)  (one matching result)
    
    
63. fistulo-, fistul-, fistuli (Latin: pipe; an abnormal passage or communication, usually between two internal organs, or leading from an internal organ to the surface of the body)  (one matching result)
    
    
64. chordo-, chord-, cordo-, cord- (Greek: gut string [of a lyre]; used in an extended sense to mean sinew, flexible rod-shaped organ; string, cord)  (one matching result)
    
    
65. -orrhexis, -rhexis, -rrhexis (Greek: used as a suffix; rupture of an organ or vessel; a breaking forth, bursting)  (one matching result)
    
    
66. adeno-, aden- (gland, glandular) words: blennadenitis to thyroadenitis, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
67. mammo-, mamm-, mammi- (Greek Latin: breast)  (one matching result)
    
    
68. patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): rachiopathy to zoopathology, part 6 of 6 medical words  (one matching result)
    
    
69. pan-, panto- (all, every, entire) words: panimmunity to panzootic, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
70. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: bioecologist to biofraud, part 5 of 20   (one matching result)
    
    
71. Plankton words: acroplankton to phytioplankton, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
72. pancreo-, pancre-, pancreato-, pancreat- (Greek: pancreas [pan, "all" plus kreas, "flesh"; the idea apparently being that the pancreas is an organ composed entirely of glandular flesh)  (one matching result)
    
    
73. grapho-, graph-, -graphy (to scratch; write, record, draw, describe) words: hagiographist to kymograph, part 6 of 11   (one matching result)
    
    
74. Chemical Elements words: thulium to zirconium, part 8 of 8   (one matching result)
    
    
75. idio-, idi- (peculiar, personal, private) words: iidiopathic to idioxanthic, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
76. viscero-, viscer-, visceri- (Latin: internal organs, entrails; any large interior organ in any of the three great cavities of the body, especially in the abdomen)  (one matching result)
    
    
77. photo- (light) words: photoesthesia to sthenophotic, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
78. xeno-, xen- (Greek: foreign, foreigner, strange, stranger; and by extension, guest)  (one matching result)
    
    
79. phono-, -phonia (sound, voice, speech) words: acrophonic to dysphonia, part 1 of 5   (one matching result)
    
    
80. sensi-, sensi- (feeling, perceptions through the senses) dictionary words: aftersensation to sensitization, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
81. patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): haematopathology to nostopathy, part 3 of 6 medical words   (one matching result)
    
    
82. lipo-, lip- (fat, fatty): adenolipoma to lipodology, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
83. cortico-, cortic-, cort-, cortex (Latin: bark, rind; literally, that which is "stripped off"; used in its extended senses, chief among these being "pertaining to the outer layer of a bodily organ, especially the brain")  (one matching result)
    
    
84. -ptosia, pto-, -ptosis, -ptoma, -ptot- (Greek: fall, a falling down of an organ; drooping, sagging)  (one matching result)
    
    
85. aesth-, esth- (feeling, sensation, perception) words: palinesthesia to zonesthesia, part 5 of 5   (one matching result)
    
    
86. patho-, -pathy (feeling, sensation): anthropopathy to unsympathetic, part 1 of 1 "feeling" words   (one matching result)
    
    
87. patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): acroleukopathy to cytopathy, part 1 of 6 medical words   (one matching result)
    
    
88. calyc-, calyci- (Greek: shell; husk; cup [of a flower], used primarily in the specialized senses of "pertaining to or of a cup-shaped bodily organ or cavity")  (one matching result)
    
    
89. parieto-, pariet- (Latin: wall [of a house]; used in the extended sense of "the walls of a cavity or organ of the body")  (one matching result)
    
    
90. algesi-, -algia (pain, sense of pain; painful; hurting) words: acromelagia to audioanalgesia, part 1 of 3   (one matching result)
    
    
91. eido-, eid-; ido-, id- (Greek: image, figure, form, shape; literally, "that which is seen")  (one matching result)
    
    
92. -penia- [singular], -penias [plural], -penic, pen-, penia- (Greek > Modern Latin: abnormal reduction, decrease in, insufficient, deficiency Originally, the meaning was poverty, need; sometimes it is erroneously or incorrectly rendered as -poenia)  (one matching result)
    
    
93. infundibulo-, infundibul-, infundibuli- (Latin: funnel; literally, "the [little] thing into which something is poured"; a funnel-shaped organ of the body)  (one matching result)
    
    
94. baro-, bary- (weight, heavy; pressure) words: abarognosis to thermobarograph  (one matching result)
    
    
95. philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: quamtophilist to syrtidophilous, part 9 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
96. pan-, panto- (all, every, entire) words: pan to panic, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)