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50 Cards in this Set
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Aut
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Combining form
Self |
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Crin
|
Combining form
[separate] secrete, sense |
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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
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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
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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, hemmorrhage |
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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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-gen
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suffix form ( strictly there are is no suffix form because there is no suffix on the combining form, however, it seemed desireable)
substance that produces ( something) |
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-genesis
|
suffix form
formation, origin |
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genic
|
suffix form
causing, producing, caused by |
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-genous
|
suffix form
by, produced by or in |
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-gram
|
suffix form
a record of the activity of an organ ( often an x-ray) |
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-graph
|
suffix form
an instrument for recording the activity of an organ |
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-graphy
|
suffix form
1.the recording of the activity og an organ( usually x-ray) 2. a descriptive treatise (on a subject) |
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-lysis
|
suffix form
dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintergration |
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-lytic
|
suffix form
pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration ( forms adjectives from words ending in - lysis) |
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-pathy
|
suffix form
disease |
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-ptosis
|
suffix form
dropping, sagging, prolapse ( r an organ or part) |
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-rrhagia
|
suffix form (words beginning with double letters usually double this letter when following another element)
profuse discharge, hemorrhage |
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-rrhea
|
suffix form
profuse discharge, excessive secretion |
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-rrhexis
|
suffix form
bursting (of tissues), rupture |
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-scope
|
suffix form
an instrument for examining |
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-scopy
|
suffix form
examination |
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-tome
|
suffix form
a surgical instrument for cutting |
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-tomy
|
suffix form
surgical incision |