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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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esth(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, 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 ecision; removoal of all (total excision) or part of an orga |
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-gen |
compound suffix form, substance that produces something |
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-genisis |
compound suffix form, formation, origin |
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-genic |
compound suffix form, causing, producing, caused |
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-genous |
compound suffix form, 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 2. a desecriptive treatise (on a subject) dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration |
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-lysis |
compound suffix form, dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration |
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-pathy |
compound suffix form, disease |
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-ptosis |
compound suffix form, dropping, sagging, prolapse |
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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 |