Cheyla Pettett Medical Terms Lesson 4

Front 1

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

Front 11

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

Front 23

rhex-

Back 23

Combining Form


rupture

Front 24

rhin-

Back 24

Combining Form


nose

Front 25

scop-

Back 25

Combining Form


look at, examine

Front 26

sep-

Back 26

Combining Form


[be putrid] be infected

Front 27

ta-

Back 27

Combining Form


streching

Front 28

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

Front 32

ton-

Back 32

Combining Form


[a streching] (muscular) tone, tension

Front 33

-ectasia, ectasis,

Back 33

Compound Suffix Form


dilation, enlargement

Front 34

-ectomy

Back 34

Compound Suffix Form


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

Front 35

-gen*

Back 35

Compound Suffix Form


substance that produces (something)

Front 36

-genesis

Back 36

Compound Suffix Form


formation, orgin

Front 37

-genic, -genous

Back 37

Compound Suffix Form


causing, producing, caused by, produced by or in

Front 38

-gram

Back 38

Compound Suffix Form


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

Front 39

-graph

Back 39

Compound Suffix Form


an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Front 40

-graphy

Back 40

Compound Suffix Form


(1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by an x-ray examination) (2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject)

Front 41

-lysis

Back 41

Compound Suffix Form


dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Front 42

-lytic

Back 42

Compound Suffix Form


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

Front 43

-pathy

Back 43

Compound Suffix Form


disease

Front 44

-ptosis

Back 44

Compound Suffix Fom


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

Front 45

-rrhagia

Back 45

Compound Suffix Form


profuse discharge, hemorrhage

Front 46

-rrhea

Back 46

Compound Suffix Form


profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Front 47

-rrhexis

Back 47

Compound Suffix Form


bursting (of tissues), rupture

Front 48

-scope

Back 48

Compound Suffix Form


an instrument for examining

Front 49

-scopy

Back 49

Compound Suffix Form


examination

Front 50

-tome

Back 50

Compound Suffix Form


a surgical instrument for cutting

Front 51

-tomy

Back 51

Compound Suffix Form


surgical incision