Lesson 4 Flashcards
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- AUT-
- Combining Form: self
- CRIN-
- Combining Form: [separate] secrete, secretion
- ESTHE(S)
- Combining Form: sensation, sensitivty, 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 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, completiion
- TEN-
- Combining Form: tendon
- TEN-, TENON(T)-
- Combining Form: tendon
- TON-
- Combining Form: [a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension
- THERAP(EU)-
- Combining Form: treat medically, heal
- TOM-
- Combining Form: a cutting, slice, incision
- -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 (often an x-ray)
- -GRAPH
- Compound Suffix Form: an instrument for recording the activity of an organ
- -GRAPHY
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Compound Suffix Form: (1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examnination)
(2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject) - -LYSIS
- Compound Suffix Form: dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration
- -LYTIC
- Compound Suffix Form: pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis)
- -PATHY
- Compound Suffix Form: disease
- -PTOSIS
- Compound Suffix Form: dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an 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