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Miscellaneous Suffixes

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-lysis - cytolysis• Loosening, split apart

-oid – humanoid, factoid, nucleoid• like, similar to

-logy - zoology• Study of

-oma - carcinoma• tumor

-osis – halitosis,hypnosis

• A condition, disease

-pathy – homeopathy, psychopath• disease

-phore – chromatophor-phora - chlorophora

• bearer

Chromatophores are pigment-containing and light-reflecting cells found in amphibians, fish, reptiles, crustaceans, and cephalopods. They are largely responsible for generating skin and eye colour in cold-blooded animals

Some species can rapidly change colour through mechanisms that translocate pigment and reorient reflective plates within chromatophores. This process, often used as a type of camouflage

Meaning: From the Greek chloros (green) and phoreo (to bear); refers to the chartreuse dye produced by one of the species of this genus

Botanary: Chlorophora

-sect – dissect-tome – microtome

-tomy - tonsilectomy• cut

-some – ribosome,chromosome-soma – somatic cells

• body

somatic cell: internal organs, skin, bones, blood, and connective tissue are all made up of somatic cells.

-stat - thermostat• stationary, placed

-tropic – phototropic

• Change, influence

-vor - carnivore• To eat