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

-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) formation, origin

Front 36

-genesis

Back 36

Compound Suffix Form:
formation, origin

Front 37

-genic

Back 37

Compound Suffix Form:
causing, producing, caused

Front 38

-genous

Back 38

Compound Suffix Form:
by, produced by or in

Front 39

-gram*

Back 39

Compound Suffix Form:
record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray)

Front 40

-graph*

Back 40

Compound 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 an x-ray examination)
2. a descriptive treatise (on a subject)

Front 42

-lysis

Back 42

Compound Suffix Form:
dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Front 43

-lytic

Back 43

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

Front 44

-pathy

Back 44

Compound Suffix Form:
disease

Front 45

-ptosis

Back 45

Compound Suffix Form:
dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ part)

Front 46

-rrhagia++

Back 46

Compound Suffix Form:
profuse discharge, hemorrhage

Front 47

-rrhea

Back 47

Compound Suffix Form:
profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Front 48

-rrhexis

Back 48

Compound Suffix Form:
bursting (of tissue), rupture

Front 49

-scope

Back 49

Compound Suffix Form:
an instrument for examining

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:
a surgical incision

Front 53

*

Back 53

Strictly speaking, -gen, -gram, and -graph are not suffix forms because there is no suffix on the combining form

Front 54

++

Back 54

Words beginning with the letter r- [Greek rho] usually double this letter when following other elements. (There are some exceptions.)