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VTHT 1205
Chapter 4 - 1
Verbal Roots
Dr. Dipa Brahmbhatt VMD, MpH
Verbal Roots
• Action or description
• Activity
• Action
• Condition
AUDI/OAUDI/O/LOGY
Hearing/CV/Science/Study of
“ The study of Hearing”
BIOBIO/GENESIS
LIFE/ORIGIN (development)
CAUS- / CAUT-
CAUS/TIC
Burn/relating to
CAUT/ERY
Burn/Instrument
-CLAS- or -CLAST
OST/EO/CLASIS
Bone/CV/Break
“Surgical fracture”
DUCTBILE - DUCT
LEAD
-ECTASChole/cyst/ectas/ia
Bile/bladder/dilate/st
ate or condition
Dilate
“Distention of gall
bladder”
-EDEMEdem/a/tous lungs
Swelling
E.g. interstitial
pneumonia
-ESTHES-
An/esthes/ia
Sensation
-GEN/OPath/o/gen
Producing
-IATR/OIatrogenic
Caused by treatment
KIN/E-, KIN/O-
Kinetics
“Study of
Motion”
(movement)
-LYSIS, -LYS/O-, -LYTIC
Lysis
“Destruction (breakdown) of a cell”
-MORPH/OPoly/morph/ic
Many forms (form, structure, shape)
-OP/IA, -OPS/IA, -OPSY
Chromatopsia
Color vision
“A condition in
which objects
seem abnormally
colored/tinged”
-PATH, -PATHY
Enteropathy
(e.g. Protein losing enteropathy: IBD)
Intestinal disease
-PHAGE, PHAG/OMacrophage: Large phagocyte (Eating cells)
-PHASDys/pha/sia
“Difficulty in speaking (speech)”
-PHIL
Acid/o/phil/ic
Acid loving (affinity, love for)
-PLEGIA
Para/plegia
“Paralysis of hind legs”
-POIESES
Leuk/o/poieses
“WBC production (formation)”
SCHIST/O-, SCHIZ/OSchistocytes: Mechanisms & Diseases
Shearing by fibrin strands:
Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Hemangiosarcoma
Glomerulonephritis
Myelofibrosis
Hemolytic uremic syndrome
Hypersplenism
Turbulent blood flow:
Congestive heart failure
Valvular stenosis
Caval syndrome in heart worm disease
Hemangiosarcoma
Intrinsic abnormalities:
Chronic doxorubicin toxicosis
Severe iron deficiency anemia
Pyruvate kinase deficiency
Congenital & acquired dyserythropoesis
Schist/o/cyte
Broken (split/cleft/division)
red cell
SPASM/OSpasmolysis
‘Relieving spasm’ e.g. colics horses
-STASIS
Hemostasis
“Stoppage (standing still) of blood flow”
TROPH/OTrophism
“Nutrition” (nourishment/food)