Lesson 4 Flashcards

Front 1

Aut-

Back 1

combining form:

self

Front 2

Crin-

Back 2

combining form:

(seperate) secrete, secretion

Front 3

Esthe(s)-

Back 3

combining form:

sensation, sensitivity, sense

Front 4

Gen(e)-, -Gen

Back 4

combining form:

come into being; productive

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

Kine(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 an 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, 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, completion

Front 29

Ten-, Tenon(t)

Back 29

combining form:

tendon

Front 30

Therap(eu)-

Back 30

combining form:

treat medically

Front 31

Tom-

Back 31

combining form:

a cutting, slice, incision

Front 32

Ton-

Back 32

combining form:

(a stretching) (muscular) tone, tension

Front 33

-ectasia, -ectasis, -ectomy

Back 33

compound suffix form:

dilation, enlargement
surgical encision; 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

-genesis

Back 35

compound suffix form:

formation, origin

Front 36

-genic

Back 36

compound suffix form:

causing, producing, caused

Front 37

-genous

Back 37

compound suffix form:

by, produced by or in

Front 38

-gram

Back 38

compound suffix form:

a record or the activity of an organ (often an x-ray)

Front 39

-graph

Back 39

compound suffix form:

an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Front 40

-graphy

Back 40

compound suffix form:

the recording of the ativity of an organ

a descriptive treatise (on a subject)

Front 41

-lysis

Back 41

compound suffix form:

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Front 42

-lytic

Back 42

compound suffix form:

pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration

Front 43

-pathy

Back 43

compound suffix form:

disease

Front 44

-ptosis

Back 44

compound suffix form:

dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)

Front 45

-rragia

Back 45

compound suffix form:

profuse discharge, hemorrhage

Front 46

-rrhea

Back 46

compound suffix form:

profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Front 47

-rrhexis

Back 47

compound suffix form:

bursting (of tissue), rupture

Front 48

-scope

Back 48

compound suffix form:

an instrument for examining

Front 49

-scopy

Back 49

compound suffix form:

examination

Front 50

-tome

Back 50

compound suffix form:

a surgical instrument for cutting

Front 51

-tomy

Back 51

compound suffix form:

surgical incision