Greek Verbs from Lesson 4

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AUT-: combining form

self
CRIN-: combining form

[separate] secrete, secretion
ESTHE(S)-: combining form

sensation, sensitivity, sense
GEN(E)-, -GEN: combining form

come into being; produce
GRAM-: [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, break down
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
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 medically, heal
TOM-: combining form

a cutting, slice, incision
TON-: combining form

[a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension
-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 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
-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
2. a descriptive treatise
-LYSIS: compound suffix form

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration
-LYTIC: compound suffix form

pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration
-PATHY: compound suffix form

disease
-PTOSIS: compound suffix form

dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ)
-RRHAGIA: compound suffix form

profuse, discharge, hemorrhage
-RRHEA: compound suffix form

profuse, discharge, excessive secretion
-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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