Lesson 4: Greek Verbs

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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) (muscular) tone, tension
-ectasia, -ectasis: Compound Suffix Form

dilation, enlargement
-ectomy: Compound Suffix Form

surgical excision; revoval of all (total excision) or part 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 (on the subject)
-lysis: Compound Suffix Form

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration
-lytic: Compound Suffix Form

pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintergration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis)
-pathy: Compound Suffix Form

disease
-ptosis: Compound Suffix Form

dropping, sagging, prolapse (of a organ or part)
-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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