Medical Vocab Lesson 4 2
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self - Crin
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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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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, break down - 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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disease - Phil
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love; have an affinity for - Pt
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fall, sag, drop, prolapse - Pyr
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fever, burning - Pyret
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fever - Pyrex
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be feverish - Rhe
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flow, secrete - Rhag
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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 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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(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, -genous
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causing, producing, caused by, produced by or in - -gram
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a record of the 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 the 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, prolapse (of an organ or 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 examining - -scopy
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examination - -tome
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a surgical instrument for cutting - -tomy
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surgical incision