Jessica Harness Med vocab 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-, 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; 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; compound suffix form
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(1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination)
(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; combining 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