Medical Vocabulary Chapter 4 2
Terms
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- aut-
- self
- crin-
- secrete, secretion
- esthe(s)-
- sensation, sensitivity, sense
- gen(e)-, -gen
- come into being; produce
- gram-
- a record
- graph-
- write, record
- iatr-
- healer, physician; treatment
- idi-
- of one's self
- kine-
- move
- kines(i)-
- movement, motion
- ly(s)-
- destroy, break down
- myx-
- mucus
- orth-
- straight, erect; normal
- ot-
- ear
- path-
- disese
- phil-
- love; have an affininty for
- pt-
- fall, sag, drop, prolapse
- pyr-
- fever, burning
- pyret-
- fever
- pyrex-
- be feverish
- rhe-
- flow, secrete
- rhag-
- flow profusely, hemorrage
- rhex-
- rupture
- rhin-
- nose
- scop-
- look at, examine
- sep-
- be infected
- ta-
- stretching
- tel-
- end, completion
- ten-, tenon(t)-
- tendon
- therap(eu)-
- treat medically, heal
- tom-
- a cutting, slice, incision
- ton-
- (muscular) tone, tension
- -ectasia, -ectasis
- dilation, enlargement
- -ectomy
- surgical excision; removal or all or part of an organ
- -gen
- substance that produces (something)
- -genesis
- formation, origin
- -genic
- causing, producing, caused
- -genous
- by, produced by or in
- -gram
- a record of the activity of an organ (often x-ray)
- -graph
- an instrument for recording the activity of an organ
- -graphy
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(1) the recording of the activity of an organ
(2) a descriptive treatise - -lysis
- dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration
- -lytic
- pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disentegration (forms adjectives in words ending in -lysis)
- -pathy
- disease
- -ptosis
- dropping, sagging, prolapse (of organ)
- -rrhagia
- prfuse discharge, hemorrhage
- -rrhea
- profuse discharge, excessive secretion
- -rrhexis
- bursting (of tissues), rupture
- -scope
- an instrument for examining
- -scopy
- examination
- -tome
- a surgical instrument for cutting
- -tomy
- surgical incision