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AUT-

Combining form


self

CRIN-

Combining form


[separate] secrete, secretion

ESTHE(S)-

Combining form


sensation, sensitivity, sense

GEN(E)-, -GEN

Combining form


come into being, produce

GRAM-

Combining form


[something written] a record

GRAPH-

Combining form


write, record

IATR-

Combining form


healer, physician, treatment

IDI-

Combining form


of one's self

KINE-

Combing form


move

KINES(I)-

Combing form


movement, motion

LY(S)-

Combining form


destroy, break down

MYX-

Combining form


mucus

ORTH-

Combining form


straight, erect, normal

OT-

Combining form


ear

PATH-

Combining form


[suffering] disease

PHIL-

Combining form


love, have an affinity for

PT-

Combining form


fall, sag, drop, prolapse

PYR-

Combining form


[fire] fever, burning

PYRET-

Combining form


fever

PYREX-

Combining form


be feverish

RHE-

Combining form


[run] flow, secrete

RHAG-

Combining form


[burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage

RHEX-

Combining form


rupture

RHIN-

Combining form


nose

SCOP-

Combining form


looking at, examine

SEP-

Combining form


[be putrid] be infected

TA-

Combining form


stretching

TEL-

Combining form


end, completion

TEN-, TENON(T)-

Combining form


tendon

THERAP(EU)-

Combining form


treat medically, heal

TOM-

Combining form


a cutting, slice, incision

TON-

Combining form


[a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension

-ectasia, -ectasis

compound suffix form

dilation,enlargement

-ectomy

compound suffix form


surgical excision, removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ

-gen

compound suffix form


substance that produces (something)

-genesis

compound suffix form


formation, origin

-genic

compound suffix form


causing, producing, caused

-genous

compound suffix form


by, produced by or in

-gram

compound suffix form


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

-graph

compound suffix form


an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

-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)

-lysis

compound suffix form


dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

-lytic

compound suffix form


pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjective from words ending in -lysis)

-pathy

compound suffix form


disease

-ptosis

compound suffix form


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

-rrhagia

compound suffix form


profuse discharge, hemorrhage

-rrhea

compound suffix form


profuse discharge, excessive secretion

-rrhexis

compound suffix form


bursting (of tissues), rupture

-scope

compound suffix form


an instrument for examining

-scopy

compound suffix form


examination

-tome

compound suffix form


a surgical instrument for cutting

-tomy

compound suffix form


surgical incision