Lesson 4 Flashcards

Front 1

AUT-

Back 1

Combining Form: self

Front 2

CRIN-

Back 2

Combining Form: [separate] secrete, secretion

Front 3

ESTHE(S)

Back 3

Combining Form: sensation, sensitivty, sense

Front 4

GEN(E)-, -GEN

Back 4

Combining Form: come into being; produce

Front 5

GRAM-

Back 5

Combining Form: [something written] a record

Front 6

GRAPH-

Back 6

Combining Form: write, record

Front 7

IATR-

Back 7

Combining Form: healer, physician; treatment

Front 8

IDI-

Back 8

Combining Form: of one's self

Front 9

KINE-

Back 9

Combining Form: move

Front 10

KINES(I)-

Back 10

Combining Form: movement, motion

Front 11

LY(S)-

Back 11

Combining Form: destroy, break down

Front 12

MYX-

Back 12

Combining Form: mucus

Front 13

ORTH-

Back 13

Combining Form: straight, erect; normal

Front 14

OT-

Back 14

Combining Form: ear

Front 15

PATH-

Back 15

Combining Form: [suffering] disease

Front 16

PHIL-

Back 16

Combining Form: love; have affinity for

Front 17

PT-

Back 17

Combining Form: fall, sag, drop, prolapse

Front 18

PYR-

Back 18

Combining Form: [fire] fever, burning

Front 19

PYRET-

Back 19

Combining Form: fever

Front 20

PYREX

Back 20

Combining Form: be feverish

Front 21

RHE-

Back 21

Combining Form: [run] flow, secrete

Front 22

RHAG-

Back 22

Combining Form: [burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage

Front 23

RHEX-

Back 23

Combining Form: rupture

Front 24

RHIN-

Back 24

Combining Form: nose

Front 25

SCOP-

Back 25

Combining Form: look at, examine

Front 26

SEP-

Back 26

Combining Form: [be putrid] be infected

Front 27

TA-

Back 27

Combining Form: stretching

Front 28

TEL-

Back 28

Combining Form: end, completiion

Front 29

TEN-

Back 29

Combining Form: tendon

Front 30

TEN-, TENON(T)-

Back 30

Combining Form: tendon

Front 31

TON-

Back 31

Combining Form: [a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension

Front 32

THERAP(EU)-

Back 32

Combining Form: treat medically, heal

Front 33

TOM-

Back 33

Combining Form: a cutting, slice, incision

Front 34

-ECTASIA, -ECTASIS

Back 34

Compound Suffix Form: dilation, enlargement

Front 35

-ECTOMY

Back 35

Compound Suffix Form: surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ

Front 36

-GEN

Back 36

Compound Suffix Form: substance that produces (something)

Front 37

-GENESIS

Back 37

Compound Suffix Form: formation, origin

Front 38

-GENIC

Back 38

Compound Suffix Form: causing, producing, caused

Front 39

-GENOUS

Back 39

Compound Suffix Form: by, produced by or in

Front 40

-GRAM

Back 40

Compound Suffix Form: a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray)

Front 41

-GRAPH

Back 41

Compound Suffix Form: an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Front 42

-GRAPHY

Back 42

Compound Suffix Form: (1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examnination)
(2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject)

Front 43

-LYSIS

Back 43

Compound Suffix Form: dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Front 44

-LYTIC

Back 44

Compound Suffix Form: pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis)

Front 45

-PATHY

Back 45

Compound Suffix Form: disease

Front 46

-PTOSIS

Back 46

Compound Suffix Form: dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)

Front 47

-RRHAGIA

Back 47

Compound Suffix Form: profuse discharge, hemorrhage

Front 48

-RRHEA

Back 48

Compound Suffix Form: profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Front 49

-RRHEXIS

Back 49

Compound Suffix Form: bursting (of tissues), rupture

Front 50

-SCOPE

Back 50

Compound Suffix Form: an instrument for examining

Front 51

-SCOPY

Back 51

Compound Suffix Form: examination

Front 52

-TOME

Back 52

Compound Suffix Form: a surgical instrument for cutting

Front 53

-TOMY

Back 53

Compound Suffix Form: surgical incision