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