15B Stems

ORANGE

BLASTO

• Blastocyst – a fertilized egg that grows into a ball of cellsembryo

DACTYLO

• Dactylography - the study of fingerprints

finger

PHOS

• Phosphorus - a poisonous chemical that produces light in the darklight

GON

• Diagonal – an angle created by joining two opposite corners of a four-sided figure

angle

LITE

• Cryolite - a mineral that is used in making aluminum

mineral or fossil

VORE

• Devour - to eat up greedily or hungrily

eating

HOLO

• Holistic - treatment of the whole person

taking into account mental and social factors, rather than just the physical symptoms of a diseasewhole

HAPLO

• Haploid – a single set of chromosomes

single or simple

OPIA

• Diplopia – double vision a disorder of vision in which two images of a single object are seen

sight

LENT

• Virulent – full of poison

full of

EF

• Efflux - the flowing out of a substance or particle.

out

IUM

• Radium - a white metallic element that is used in the treatment of cancer

M Marie Curie

an element

DICHO

• Dichotomy - a division between two groups that differ greatly

(the dichotomy between good and evil)

in two parts