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52 Cards in this Set
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AUT- |
Combining form self
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CRIN- |
Combining form [seperate] 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 ones 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 lobe; 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, heal |
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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 extension; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ |
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-gen* |
Compound suffix form substance that produces (something) |
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-genesis |
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 (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 |
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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 exampining |
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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 a surgical incision |