Vocabulary

1. • Medical and Legal Terms
derived From Ancient Latin
and Greek
• Dys –
• - Cide

2. • “Dys—” = BAD,
ill, difficult
• “—CIDE” = Kill

3. dysentery
• dysentery = inflammation of the large
intestine

4. • dysphagia = difficulty swallowing

5. • dyspepsia = difficult digestion

6. • dyslexia = impairment of the ability to read

7. • dysfunction = abnormal functioning.

8. • dysphasia = speech difficulty resulting from
braining injury

9. • Dysphoria = sense of unhappiness

10. • dystopia = imaginary place where living
conditions are dreadful and bad.

11. dystrophy
• = faulty development, faulty nutrition.

12. Herbicide
• Herbicide = substance that kills plants

13. • homicide = killing one human by another

14. infanticide = killing an infant

15. suicide = killing one's self

16. insecticide =
substance that kills insects

17. fungicide = killing of fungus

18. fratricide = killing of the brother

19. sororicide = killing a sister

20. germicide =
a substance that kills germs

21. bactericide =
substance that kills bacteria