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GREEK ROOTS:
rachis — Spine.
rein — Flow.
rhaphe — Stitching, sewing.
rhegma — A breakage or fracture.
rhegnumi — To break asunder, rend.
rheos — Current.
rhis — Nose, snout.
rhiza — Root.
sakcharon — Sugar.
salpinx — Tube.
sapros — Rotten.
sarx — Flesh.
saura — Lizard.
schizein — To split or cleave.
sepsis — Putrefaction.
sialon — Saliva.
sideros — Iron.
sitos — Grain.
skleros — Hard.
skolios — Crooked.
skopein — To examine.
soma — Body.
spasmos — Convulsion.
speira — Coil.
sperma — Seed, semen, race, origin.
sphygmos — Pulse.
splangchnon — Internal organ.
sporos — Sowing, seed, offspring, semen.
staphyle — Bunch of grapes.
stasis — Condition of standing.
statos — Standing.
stear — Fat, tallow.
stemon — Warp, thread.
stenos — Narrow.
stethos — Chest.
stoma, stomat- — Mouth.
streptos — To be bent or turned.
stylos — Pillar.
syn — Together.
syrinx — Pipe or tube.
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LATIN ROOTS:
radius — Ray.
re- — Again.
renunculus — Kidney.
rete, retis — Net, snare.
retro — Backwards, behind, on the back; formerly.
rota, rotae — Wheel.
rutundus, -a, -um — Round, circular, spherical, wheel-like.
sacrum — Sacrum.
saeta — Hair, bristle.
sanguis — Blood.
semi — Half.
separare — To separate.
septum — Seven.
sesqui — One and a half times.
sex, sextus — Six.
simia, simiae — Ape, monkey.
sinister, sinistra — Left.
spirare — To breathe; blow; live.
spora — Seed, spore.
squama — Scale.
stercus — Dung.
stratum, strati — Bed, blanket.
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strix, strigis — Screech owl; vampire.
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sub — Under, beneath, behind, during.
sulfur, sulfuris — Brimstone, sulfur; lightning.
super — Above, on top, upon, over, upwards.
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