Chapter 4

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Aut

Back 1

combining form self

Front 2

Crin

Back 2

combining form [separate] secrete, secretion

Front 3

esthe(s)

Back 3

combining form sensation, sensitivity, sense

Front 4

Gen(e), -Gen

Back 4

combining form come into being; produce

Front 5

Gram

Back 5

combining form [something written] a record

Front 6

graph

Back 6

combining form write, record

Front 7

iatr

Back 7

combining form healer, physician; treatment

Front 8

idi

Back 8

combining form of one's self

Front 9

kine

Back 9

combining form move

Front 10

kines(i)

Back 10

combining form movement, motion

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ly(s)

Back 11

combining form destroy, break down

Front 12

myx

Back 12

combining form mucus

Front 13

orth

Back 13

combining form straight, erect; normal

Front 14

ot

Back 14

combining form ear

Front 15

path

Back 15

combining form [suffering] disease

Front 16

phil

Back 16

combining form love; have an affinity for

Front 17

pt

Back 17

combining form fall, sag, drop, prolapse

Front 18

pyr

Back 18

combining form [fire] fever, burning

Front 19

pyret

Back 19

combining form fever

Front 20

pyrex

Back 20

combining form be feverish

Front 21

rhe

Back 21

combining form [run] flow, secrete

Front 22

rhag

Back 22

combining form [burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage

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rhex

Back 23

combining form rupture

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rhin

Back 24

combining form nose

Front 25

scop

Back 25

combining form look at, examine

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sep

Back 26

combining form [be putrid] be infected

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ta

Back 27

combining form stretching

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tel

Back 28

combining form end, completion

Front 29

ten, tenon(t)

Back 29

combining form tendon

Front 30

therap(eu)

Back 30

combining form treat medically, heal

Front 31

tom

Back 31

combining form a cutting, slice, incision

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ton

Back 32

combining form [a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension

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tetanus

Back 33

related to nouns tasis and tonos, stretching and tension; this acute disease was known to ancient physicians

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opisthotonos

Back 34

position in which the body is stretched backward in a tetanic spasm

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emprosthotonos

Back 35

body position if stretched forward

Front 36

pleurothotonos

Back 36

position if the body is stretched to side

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orthotonos

Back 37

when the body is held rigidly stretched in a straight line

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idiopathy

Back 38

ailment having originated within the body

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idiopathic

Back 39

in modern jargon, describes a disease in which there is no recognizable cause.

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parotid

Back 40

a gland that runs alongside the ear and supplies saliva to the mouth

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parotitis

Back 41

acute, contagious disease commonly known as mumps

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rheum

Back 42

watery discharge, from the word rhein ("that which flows")

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rheumatism

Back 43

named thus because it was thought to be caused by flowing of the humors in the body

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ptomaine

Back 44

generic name for certain alkaloid bodies found deep in decaying animal and vegetable matter

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capillary

Back 45

from Latin capillaris, pertaining to hair

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telangiosis

Back 46

any disease of capillaries

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telangioma

Back 47

a tumor made up of dilated capillaries

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-ectasia, -ectasis

Back 48

suffix form dilation, enlargement

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-ectomy

Back 49

suffix form surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ

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-gen

Back 50

suffix form substance that produces (something) [strictly speaking it is not a suffix form because there is no suffix on the combining form]

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-genesis

Back 51

suffix form formation, origin

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-genic

Back 52

suffix form causing, producing, caused

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-genous

Back 53

suffix form by, produced by or in

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-gram

Back 54

suffix form a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray image)

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-graph

Back 55

suffix form an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

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-graphy

Back 56

suffix form recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination), or a descriptive treatise on a subject

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-lysis

Back 57

suffix form dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

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-lytic

Back 58

suffix form pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis)

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-pathy

Back 59

suffix form disease

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-ptosis

Back 60

suffix form dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)

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-rrhagia

Back 61

suffix form profuse discharge, hemorrhage (words beginning with the letter r usually double this letter when following another element, there are a few exceptions)

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-rrhea

Back 62

suffix form profuse discharge, excessive secretion

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-rrhexis

Back 63

suffix form bursting (of tissues), rupture

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-scope

Back 64

suffix form an instrument for examining

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-scopy

Back 65

suffix form examination

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-tome

Back 66

suffix form surgical instrument for cutting

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-tomy

Back 67

suffix form surgical incision