Understanding Scientific Terms/Body-1

Understanding Scientific Terminology
Greek and Latin Roots of Scientific Terms.

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Lesson 6 - The Body, part 1

The word corpus means body, substance, or matter as perceived by the senses. You will find it in words like corpus luteum the yellow body left when an egg leaves a human ovary. We also derive the word corpse from it. ¹

Here are some word roots related to parts of the body.

	Latin	Greek
head		cephal/o
brain		encephal/o
eye	ocul/o	ophthalm/o
ear	aur/i	ot/o
nose		rhin/o
mouth	or/o	stomat/o
breast	mamm/o
arm		brachy/o
hand		chir/o
finger		dactyl/o
navel	umbilic/o
kneecap	patell/o
foot		ped/o

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