Delliott Medical Vocabulary Lesson 4

Front 1

AUT-

Back 1

Combined Form

self

Front 2

CRIN-

Back 2

Combined Form

(separate) secrete, secretion

Front 3

ESTHE(S)-

Back 3

Combined Form

sensation, sensitivity, sense

Front 4

GEN(E)-, -GEN

Back 4

Combined Form

come into being, produce

Front 5

GRAM-

Back 5

Combined Form

(something written) a record

Front 6

GRAPH-

Back 6

Combined Form

write, record

Front 7

IATR-

Back 7

Combined Form

healer, physician, treatment

Front 8

IDI-

Back 8

Combined Form

of one's self

Front 9

KINE-

Back 9

Combined Form

move

Front 10

KINES(I)-

Back 10

Combined Form

movement, motion

Front 11

LY(S)-

Back 11

Combined Form

destroy, break down

Front 12

MYX-

Back 12

Combined Form

mucus

Front 13

ORTH-

Back 13

Combined Form

straight, erect; normal

Front 14

OT-

Back 14

Combined Form

ear

Front 15

PATH-

Back 15

Combined Form

(suffering) disease

Front 16

PHIL-

Back 16

Combined Form

love; have an affintiy for

Front 17

PT-

Back 17

Combined Form

fall, sag, drop, prolapse

Front 18

PYR-

Back 18

Combined Form

(fire) fever, burning

Front 19

PYRET-

Back 19

Combined Form

fever

Front 20

PYREX-

Back 20

Combined Form

be feverish

Front 21

RHE-

Back 21

Combined Form

(run) flow, secrete

Front 22

RHAG-

Back 22

Combined Form

(burst forth) flow profusely, hemorrhage

Front 23

RHEX-

Back 23

Combined Form

rupture

Front 24

RHIN-

Back 24

Combined Form

nose

Front 25

SCOP-

Back 25

Combined Form

look at, examine

Front 26

SEP-

Back 26

Combined Form

(be putrid) be infected

Front 27

TA-

Back 27

Combined Form

stretching

Front 28

TEL-

Back 28

Combined Form

end, completion

Front 29

TEN-, TENON(T)

Back 29

Combined Form

tedon

Front 30

THERAP(EU)-

Back 30

Combined Form

treat medically, heal

Front 31

TOM-

Back 31

Combined Form

a cutting, slice, incision

Front 32

TON-

Back 32

Combined Form

(a stretching) (muscular) tone, tension

Front 33

-ECTASIA, -ECTASIS

Back 33

Compound Suffix Form

dilation, enlargment

Front 34

-ECTOMY

Back 34

Compound Suffix Form

surgical excision; removal of all (total excision)

or part (partial ecision) of an organ

Front 35

-GEN

Back 35

Compound suffix Form

substance that produces (something)

Front 36

-GENESIS

Back 36

Compound Suffix Form

formation, origin

Front 37

-GENIC

Back 37

Compound Suffix Form

cuasing, producing, caused

Front 38

-GENOUS

Back 38

Compound Suffix Form

by, produced by or in

Front 39

-GRAM

Back 39

Compound Suffix Form

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

Front 40

-GRAPH

Back 40

Compoud Suffix Form

an instrument for recording the activity of an

organ

Front 41

-GRAPHY

Back 41

Compound Suffix Form

(1) the recording of the activity of an organ

(usually by x-ray examination)

Front 42

-LYSIS

Back 42

Compound Suffix Form

dissoluiton, reduction decomposition

disintegration

Front 43

-LYTIC

Back 43

Compound Suffix Form

pertaining to dissolution or decomoposition

disintegration (forms adjectivees from words ending in -lysis)

Front 44

-PATHY

Back 44

Compounding Suffix Form

disease

Front 45

-PTOSIS

Back 45

Compound Suffix Form

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

Front 46

-RRHAGIA

Back 46

Compound Suffix Form

profuse dischare heorrhage

Front 47

-RRHEA

Back 47

Compound Suffix Form

profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Front 48

-RRHEXIS

Back 48

Compound Suffix Form

bursting (of tissues) rupture

Front 49

-SCOPE

Back 49

Compound Suffix Form

an instrument for examing

Front 50

-SCOPY

Back 50

Compound Suffix Form

examination

Front 51

-TOME

Back 51

Compound Suffix Form

a surgical instrument for cutting

Front 52

-TOMY

Back 52

Compound Suffix Form

surgical incision