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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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Itar- |
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)- (plural) |
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) *strictly speaking not a suffix form, however listed together in order to show the relationship between words using these forms |
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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 xpray) *strictly speaking not a suffix form, however listed together in order to show the relationship between words using these forms |
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-graph* |
Compound Suffix Form: an instrument for recording the activity of an organ *strictly speaking not a suffix form, however listed together in order to show the relationship between words using these forms |
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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 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 *because this suffix forms can mean either producing or produced by, the meaning of some words is ambiguous. |
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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 |