MCAT / NCLEX / UCAT root words: 242 roots to know
This list is for pre-med, nursing and uk medical applicants. It covers the 242 roots behind the 414 words in WordPith's MCAT / NCLEX / UCAT pack, most-used first. Learn a root once and you can work out every word it builds.
-ASE
“an enzyme” · an English suffix
-IDE
“a compound of” · an English suffix
BLAST
“a sprout, a germ cell” · Greek
KARY
“a nut, a nucleus” · Greek
KINES
“movement” · Greek
-OTE
“one that has” · an English suffix
PEPT
“digest” · Greek
PLAS
“form, mould” · Greek
SACCHAR
“sugar” · Greek
TROPH
“nourishment, growth” · Greek
-ZYME
“leaven” · Greek
BIC
“life” · Greek
CATHET
“let down” · Greek
CRINE
“to separate, to secrete” · Greek
DENDR
“a tree” · Greek
ELLE
“little one” · an English suffix
ESIS
“a process” · an English suffix
GLUC
“sweet” · Greek
MERE
“a part” · Greek
MITO
“thread” · Greek
MORBID
“diseased” · Latin
MUCOS
“lined with mucus” · Latin
NUCLEO
“a kernel” · Latin
OME
“the whole of” · an English suffix
ONE
“a chemical compound” · an English suffix
OO
“egg” · Greek
PHAGE
“eater” · Greek
PHYSIO
“nature, the working of the body” · Greek
REDUCT
“lead back” · Latin
SQUAM
“a scale” · Latin
SULF
“sulfur” · Latin
THALAM
“an inner chamber” · Greek
THELI
“a nipple, a covering layer” · Greek
TROP
“a turning” · Greek
TUBUL
“a little pipe” · Latin
ZYG
“a yoke” · Greek
ACUTE
“sharp, sudden” · Latin
ADIP
“fat” · Latin
ALB
“white” · Latin
ALLEL
“of one another” · Greek
That's the first 40 of 242 roots. The full MCAT / NCLEX / UCAT pack, with all 414 words as puzzles, is in the WordPith app.
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