sarc/o
Word root Medical Terminology
Flesh or connective tissue.
Example: sarcoma (cancer of connective tissue)
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- tissueA group of similar cells working together to perform a specific function.
- pyr/oFever or fire.
- rect/oRectum.
- retin/oRetina, the light-sensing layer at the back of the eye.
- salping/oTube, especially the fallopian (uterine) tube or the eustachian tube.
- scler/oHard; also the sclera (white of the eye).
- scoli/oCrooked or twisted.
- sial/oSaliva or salivary gland.
- spir/oBreathing.
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