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51 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, -genous
compound suffix form |
causing, producing, caused 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 for 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, excessive secretion
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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 |
a surgical instrument for cutting
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-tomy
compound suffix form |
surgical incision
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