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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; have 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, hemorrahge |
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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) *not technically a suffix form because there is no suffix on the combining form |
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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 the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination); 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 from 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, hemorrhage |
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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 |