Medical Vocabulary Chapter 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-: 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

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
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 medically, heal
tom-: combining form

a cutting, slice, incision
ton-: combining form

(a stretching)(muscluar) 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, orgin
-genic, -genous: compound suffix form

causing, producing, caused 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 activing 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 suject)
-lysis: compound suffix form

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

pertaining to dissolution of decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis)
-pathy: compound suffix form

disease
-ptosis: compound suffix form

dropping, saggin, 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 of 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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