Medical Vocabulary Lesson 4
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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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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, break down - myx-
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mucus - orth-
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straight, erect, normal - path-
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disease - phil-
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love, have and affinity for - pt-
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fall sag drop prolapse - 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 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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tone, tension - -ectasia, -ectasis
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dilation, enlargement - -ectomy
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surgical excision; removal of all or part 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 - -graph
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an instrument for recording the activity of an organ. - -gram
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a record of the activity of an organ. - -graphy
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the recording of the activity of an organ, or a descriptive treatise - -lysis
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dissoulution, reduction, decomposition, disentegration. - -lytic
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pertaining to dissoultuon or decompostion disintegration - -pathy
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disease - -ptosis
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dropping, sagging, prolapse - -rrhagia
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profuse, discharge, hemorrhage - -rrhea
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profuse discharge exvessive secretion - -rrhexis
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bursting, rupture - -scope
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an instrument form examining - -scopy
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examination - -tome
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a surgical instrument for cutting - -tomy
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surgical incision.