Cody Miller Medical Vocab 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
-stretching

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 stretching) (muscular) tone, tension

Front 33

-gen

Back 33

Compound suffix form
-Substance that produces (something)

Front 34

-genesis

Back 34

compound suffix form
-formation, origin

Front 35

-genic

Back 35

compound suffix form
-causing, producing, caused

Front 36

-genous

Back 36

compound suffix form
-by, produced by or in

Front 37

-gram

Back 37

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

Front 38

-graph

Back 38

compound suffix form
-an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Front 39

-graphy

Back 39

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

Front 40

-lysis

Back 40

compound suffix form
-dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Front 41

-lytic

Back 41

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

Front 42

-pathy

Back 42

compound suffix form
-disease

Front 43

-ptosis

Back 43

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

Front 44

-rrhagia

Back 44

compound suffix form
-profuse, discharge, hemorrhage

Front 45

-rrhea

Back 45

compound suffix form
-profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Front 46

-rrhexis

Back 46

compound suffix form
-bursting (of tissues), rupture

Front 47

-scope

Back 47

compound suffix form
-bursting (of tissues), rupture

Front 48

-scopy

Back 48

compound suffix form
-examination

Front 49

-tome

Back 49

compound suffix form
-a surgical instrument for cutting

Front 50

-tomy

Back 50

compound suffix form
-surgical incision