Lesson 4 Greek Verbs

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AUT-: combining form

self
CRIN-: combining form

(seperate) secrete, secretion
ESTHE(S)-: combining form

sensation, sensitivity, sense
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

destry, breakdown
MYX-: combining form

mucus
ORTH-: combining form

straight, erect; normal
OT-: combining form

ear
PATH-: combining 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
TEN-, TENON(T)-: combining form

tendon
THERAP(EU)-: combining form

treat nedically, heal
TOM-: combining form

a cutting, slice, incision
TON-: combining form

(a stretching) (muscular) tone, tension
-gen: compound suffix form

substance that produces (something)
-genesis: compound suffix form

formation, origin
-genic: compound suffix form

causing, producing, caused
-genous: compound suffix form

by, produced by or in
-gram: compound suffix form

a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray)
-graph: compound suffix form

an instrument for recording the activity of an organ
-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) dissolution, reduction, decompisition, disintegration
-lysis: compound suffix form

dissolution, reduction, decompisition, disintegration
-lytic: compound suffix form

pertaining to dissolution ot decompisition, 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
-rrhea: compound suffix form

profuse discharge, excessive secretion
-ectasia, -ectasis, -ectomy: compound suffix form

dilation, enlargement
surgical exclusion; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ
-rrhexis: compound suffix form

bursting (of tissues), rupture
-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

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