| Term | Definition |
|---|
| tom | cut |
| ton, ten | stretch; tone |
| chir | hand |
| pod | foot |
| cephal | head |
| dactyl | finger; toe |
| gloss, glott, glot | tongue; language |
| osteo | bone |
| derm, dermat | skin |
| plas, plasm, plast | mold; shape; form; substance |
| pachy- | thick |
| tauto- | same |
| -algia, -algy | pain |
| -algaic | one who suffers pain |
| -algic, -algetic | pertaining to or causing pain |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -itic | one who has inflammation; characterized by inflammation |
| -machy, -machia | war; fight |
| -machist | one who fights |
| -machic, -machical, -machal | pertaining to fighting |
| atom | the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element |
| monotone | a single tone without harmony or variation in pitch. |
| chirography | handwriting; penmanship |
| chiromancy | palmistry |
| cephalopod | any mollusk of the class Cephalopoda, having tentacles attached to the head, including the cuttlefish, squid, and octopus. |
| cephaloagia | headache |
| dactylology | the technique of communicating by signs made with the fingers, esp. in the manual alphabets used by the deaf. |
| polyglot | able to speak or write several languages; multilingual. |
| osteotomy | the dividing of a bone, or the excision of part of it. |
| dermatitis | Inflammation of the skin. |
| hypodermic | introduced under the skin |
| plastic | any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened |
| pachyderm | any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros. |
| tautology | needless repetition of an idea |
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