Flash Card Assignment 4

Front 1

Combining Form

self

Back 1

aut-

Front 2

Combining Form

[seperate] secrete, secretion

Back 2

crin-

Front 3

Combining Form

sensation, sensitivity, sense

Back 3

esthe(s)-

Front 4

Combining Form

come into being, produce

Back 4

gen(e)- (-gen)

Front 5

Combining Form

[something written] a record

Back 5

gram-

Front 6

Combining Form

write, record

Back 6

graph-

Front 7

Combining Form

healer, physician; treatment

Back 7

iatr-

Front 8

Combining Form

of one's self

Back 8

idi-

Front 9

Combining Form

move

Back 9

kine-

Front 10

Combining Form

movement, motion

Back 10

kines(i)-

Front 11

Combining Form

destroy, break down

Back 11

ly(s)-

Front 12

Combining Form

mucus

Back 12

myx-

Front 13

Combining Form

straight, erect; normal

Back 13

orth-

Front 14

Combining Form

ear

Back 14

ot-

Front 15

Combining Form

[suffering] disease

Back 15

path-

Front 16

Combining Form

love, have an affinity for

Back 16

phil-

Front 17

Combining Form

fall, sag, drop, prolapse

Back 17

pt-

Front 18

Combining Form

[fire] fever, burning

Back 18

pyr-

Front 19

Combining Form

fever

Back 19

pyret-

Front 20

Combining Form

be feverish

Back 20

pyrex-

Front 21

Combining Form

be feverish

Back 21

pyrex-

Front 22

Combining Form

[run] flow, secrete

Back 22

rhe-

Front 23

Combining Form

[burst forth] flow profusely, hemhorrage

Back 23

rhag-

Front 24

Combining Form

rupture

Back 24

rhex-

Front 25

Combining Form

nose

Back 25

rhin-

Front 26

Combining Form

look at, examine

Back 26

scop-

Front 27

Combining Form

[be putrid] be infected

Back 27

sep-

Front 28

Combining Form

stretching

Back 28

ta-

Front 29

Combining Form

end, completion

Back 29

tel-

Front 30

Combining Form

tendon

Back 30

ten-, (tenon(t)-

Front 31

Combining Form

treat medically, heal

Back 31

therap(eu)-

Front 32

Combining Form

a cutting, slice, incision

Back 32

tom-

Front 33

Combining Form

[stretching] (muscular) tone, tension

Back 33

ton-

Front 34

Compound Suffix Form

dilation, enlargement

Back 34

-ectasia, (-ectasis)

Front 35

Compound Suffix Form

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

Back 35

-ectomy

Front 36

Compound Suffix Form

substance that produces (something)

Back 36

-gen

Front 37

Compound Suffix Form

formation, origin

Back 37

-genesis

Front 38

Compound Suffix Form

causing, producing, caused

Back 38

-genic

Front 39

Compound Suffix Form

by, produced by or in

Back 39

-genous

Front 40

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

Back 40

-gram

Front 41

Compound Suffix Form

an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Back 41

-graph

Front 42

Compound Suffix Form

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

Back 42

-graphy

Front 43

Compound Suffix Form

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintergration

Back 43

-lysis

Front 44

Compound Suffix Form

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

Back 44

-lytic

Front 45

Compound Suffix Form

disease

Back 45

-pathy

Front 46

Compound Suffix Form

dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ)

Back 46

-ptosis

Front 47

Compound Suffix Form

profuse discharge, hemhorrage

Back 47

-rrhagia

Front 48

Compound Suffix Form

profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Back 48

-rrhea

Front 49

Compound Suffix Form

bursting (of tissues), rupture

Back 49

-rrhexis

Front 50

an instrument for examining

Back 50

-scope

Front 51

Compound Suffix Form

examination

Back 51

-scopy

Front 52

Compound Suffix Form

a surgical instrument for cutting

Back 52

-tome

Front 53

Compound Suffix Form

surgical incision

Back 53

-tomy