Lesson 4: Greek Verbs

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, sensitivity, 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 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 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, completion

Front 29

Ten-, Tenon(t)

Back 29

combining form

tendon

Front 30

Therap(eu)

Back 30

combining form

treat medically, heal

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

Back 33

compound suffix form

dilation, enlargement

Front 34

-Ectomy

Back 34

compound suffix form

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

Front 35

-Gen*

Back 35

compound suffix form

Substance that produces (something)

Front 36

-Genesis

Back 36

compound suffix form

formation, origin

Front 37

-Genic

Back 37

compound suffix form

causing, producing, caused

Front 38

Genous

Back 38

compound suffix form

by, produced by or in

Front 39

-Gram

Back 39

compound suffix form

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

Front 40

-Graph

Back 40

compound suffix form

an istrument for recording activity of an organ

Front 41

-Graphy

Back 41

compound suffix form

1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination)
2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject)

Front 42

-Lysis

Back 42

compound suffix form

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Front 43

-Lytic

Back 43

compound suffix form

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

Front 44

-Pathy

Back 44

compound suffix form

disease

Front 45

-Ptosis

Back 45

compound suffix form

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

Front 46

-Rrhagia

Back 46

compound suffix form

profuse, discharge, hemorrhage

Front 47

-Rrhea

Back 47

compound suffix form

profuse, discharge, excessive secretion

Front 48

-Rrhexis

Back 48

compound suffix form

bursting (of tissues), rupture

Front 49

-Scope

Back 49

compound suffix form

an instrument for examining

Front 50

-Scopy

Back 50

compound suffix form

examination

Front 51

-Tome

Back 51

compound suffix form

a surgical instrument for cutting

Front 52

-Tomy

Back 52

compound suffix form

surgical incision