Lesson 4

Front 1

AUT

Back 1

self

Front 2

CRIN

Back 2

[separate] secrete, secretion

Front 3

ESTHE(S)

Back 3

sensation, sensitivity, sense

Front 4

GEN(E), GEN

Back 4

come into being; produce

Front 5

GRAM

Back 5

[something written] a record

Front 6

GRAPH

Back 6

write, record

Front 7

IATR

Back 7

healer, physician; treatment

Front 8

IDI

Back 8

of one's self

Front 9

KINE

Back 9

move

Front 10

KINES(I)

Back 10

movement, motion

Front 11

LY(S)

Back 11

destroy, break down

Front 12

MYX

Back 12

mucus

Front 13

ORTH

Back 13

straight, erect; normal

Front 14

OT

Back 14

ear

Front 15

PATH

Back 15

[suffering] disease

Front 16

PHIL

Back 16

love; have an affinity for

Front 17

PT

Back 17

fall, sag, drop, prolapse

Front 18

PYR

Back 18

[fire] fever, burning

Front 19

PYRET

Back 19

fever

Front 20

PYREX

Back 20

be feverish

Front 21

RHE

Back 21

[run] flow, secrete

Front 22

RHAG

Back 22

[burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage

Front 23

RHEX

Back 23

rupture

Front 24

SCOP

Back 24

look at, examine

Front 25

SEP

Back 25

[be putrid] be infected

Front 26

TA

Back 26

stretching

Front 27

TEL

Back 27

end, completion

Front 28

TEN, TENON(T)

Back 28

tendon

Front 29

THERAP(EU)

Back 29

treat medically, heal

Front 30

TOM

Back 30

a cutting, slice, incision

Front 31

TON

Back 31

[a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension

Front 32

-ectasia, -ectasis

Back 32

compound suffix form

dilation, enlargement

Front 33

-ectomy

Back 33

compound suffix form

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

Front 34

-gen

Back 34

compound suffix form

substance that produces (something)

Front 35

-gensis

Back 35

compound suffix form

formation, origin

Front 36

-genic, -genous

Back 36

compound suffix form

causing, producing, caused by, produced by or in

Front 37

-gram

Back 37

compound suffix form

a record of the 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 examination)
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 adj. 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

an instrument for examining

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