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52 Cards in this Set
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Aut- |
Combining Form Self |
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Crin- |
Combining form [separate] secrete, secretion |
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Esthe(s)- |
Combining form Sensation, Sensitivity, Sense |
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Gen(e)- -gen |
Combining form Come into being; produce |
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Gram- |
Combining form [something written] a record |
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Graph- |
Combining form Write, Record |
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Iatr- |
Combining form Healer, physician; treatment |
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Idi- |
Combining form Of one's self |
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Kine- |
Combining form Move |
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Kines(i)- |
Combining form Movement, motion |
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Ly(s)- |
Combining form Destroy, break down |
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Myx- |
Combining form Mucus |
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Orth- |
Combining form Straight, erect; normal |
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Ot- |
Combining form Ear |
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Path- |
Combining form [suffering] disease |
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Phil- |
Combining form Love; having an affinity for |
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Pt- |
Combining form Fall, sag, drop, prolapse |
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Pyr- |
Combining form [fire] fever, burning |
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Pyret- |
Combining form Fever |
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Pyrex- |
Combining form Be feverish |
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Rhe- |
Combining form [run] flow, secrete |
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Rhag- |
Combining form [burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage |
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Rhex- |
Combining form Rupture |
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Rhin- |
Combining form Nose |
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Scop- |
Combining form look at, examine |
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Sep- |
Combining form [be putrid] be infected |
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Ta- |
Combining form Stretching |
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Tel- |
Combining form End, completion |
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Ten- Tenon(t)- |
Combining form tendon |
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Therap(eu)- |
Combining form Treat medically, heal |
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Tom- |
Combining form a cutting, slice, incision |
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Ton- |
Combining form [a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension |
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-ectasia -ectasis |
Compound Suffix Form Dilation, enlargement |
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-ectomy |
Compound Suffix Form surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ |
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-gen |
Compound Suffix Form Substance that produces (something) |
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-genesis |
Compound Suffix Form Formation, origin |
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-genic |
Compound Suffix Form Causing, producing, caused |
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-genous |
Compound Suffix Form by, produced by or in |
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-gram |
Compound Suffix Form a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray) |
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-graph |
Compound Suffix Form An instrument for recording the activity of an organ |
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-graphy |
Compound Suffix Form (1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination) (2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject) |
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-lysis |
Compound Suffix Form dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration |
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-lytic |
Compound Suffix Form pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis) |
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-pathy |
Compound Suffix Form disease |
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-ptosis |
Compound Suffix Form dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part) |
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-rrhagia |
Compound Suffix Form profuse discharge, hemorrhage |
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-rrhea |
Compound Suffix Form Profuse discharge, excessive secretion |
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-rrhexis |
Compound Suffix Form bursting (of tissues), rupture |
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-scope |
Compound Suffix Form An instrument for examining |
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-scopy |
Compound Suffix Form Examination |
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-tome |
Compound Suffix Form Surgical instrument for cutting |
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-tomy |
Compound Suffix Form Surgical incision |