Lesson 4: Greek Verbs 2
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- AUT-
- combining form: self
- CRIN-
- combining form: (separate)secrete, secretion
- ESTHE(S)-
- combining form: sensation, sensitivity, semse
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GEN(E)-
-GEN - combining form: come into being produce
- GRAM-
- combining form:(something written) a record
- GRAPH-
- combining form: write, record
- IATR-
- combining form: healer, physician; treatment
- IDI-
- combining form: of one's self
- KINE-
- combining form: move
- KINES(I)-
- combining form: movement, motion
- LY(S)-
- combining form: destroy, breakdown
- MYX-
- combining form: mucus
- ORTH-
- combining form: straight, erect; normal
- OT-
- combining form:ear
- PATH-
- combininf form:(suffering)disease
- PHIL-
- combining form:love, have an affinity for
- PT-
- combining form:fall, sag, drop, prolapse
- PYR-
- combining form:(fire)fever, burning
- PYRET-
- combining form:fever
- PYREX-
- combining form:be feverish
- RHE-
- combining form:(run)flow, secrete
- RHAG-
- combining form:(burst forth) flow profusely, hemorrhage
- RHEX-
- combining form:rupture
- RHIN-
- combining form:nose
- SCOP-
- combining form:look at, examine
- SEP-
- combining form:(be putrid) be infected
- TA-
- combining form:stretching
- TEL-
- combining form:end, completion
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TEN-
TENON(T)- - combining form:tendon
- THERAP(EU)
- combining form:treat medically, heal
- TOM-
- combining form:a cutting, slice, incision
- TON-
- combining form:(a stretching)(muscular)tone, tension
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-ECTASIA
-ECTASIS - compound suffix form: dilation, enlargement
- -ECTOMY
- compound suffix form: surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ
- -GEN
- compound form: substance that produces (something; can be suffix form
- -GENESIS
- compound suffix form: formation, origin
- -GENIC
- compound suffix form: causing, producing, caused
- -GENOUS
- compound suffix form: ambiguous meanining, meaning it can be producing or produced by
- -GRAM
- compound form: a record of the activity of an organ )often an x-ray; can be suffix form
- -GRAPH
- compound form: an instrument for recording the activity of an organ; can be suffix form
- -GRAPHY
- compound suffix form:1. the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination) 2. a descriptive treatise(on a subject)
- -LYSIS
- compound suffix form: dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration
- -LYTIC
- compound suffix form: pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis)
- -PATHY
- compound suffix form: disease
- -PTOSIS
- compound suffix form: dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)
- -RRHAGIA
- compound suffix form: profuse discharge, hemorrhage; words beginning with -r usually double it after another element
- -RRHEA
- compound suffix form:profuse discharge, excessive secretion; words beginning with -r usually double it after another element
- -RRHEXIS
- compound suffix form:bursting (of tissue), rupture; words beginning with -r usually double it after another element
- -SCOPE
- compound suffix form: an instrument for examining
- -SCOPY
- compound suffix form: examination
- -TOME
- compound suffix form: a surgical instrument for cutting
- -TOMY
- compound suffix form: surgical incision