Lesson 4 Medical Terminology

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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

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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

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Path-

Back 15

[combining form] (suffering) disease

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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] (bursting forth) flow profusely, hemorrage

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Rhex-

Back 23

[combining form] rupture

Front 24

Rhin-

Back 24

[combining form] nose

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Scop-

Back 25

[combining form] look at, examine

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Sep-

Back 26

[combining form] (be prutrid) 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

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Therap(eu)-

Back 30

[combining form] treat medically, heal

Front 31

Tom-

Back 31

[combining form] a cutting, slice, incesion

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Ton-

Back 32

[combining form] (a stretching) (muscular) tone, tension

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-ectasia
-ectasis

Back 33

[compound form suffix] dilation, enlargement

Front 34

-ectomy

Back 34

[compound form suffix] surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) of part (partial excesion) of an organ

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-gen

Back 35

[compound form suffix] substance that produces (something)

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-genesis

Back 36

[compound form suffix] formation, origin

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-genic

Back 37

[compound form suffix] causing, producing, caused

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-genous

Back 38

[compound form suffix] by, produced by or in

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-gram

Back 39

[compound form suffix] a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray)

Front 40

-graph

Back 40

[coumpound form suffix] an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Front 41

-graphy

Back 41

[compound form suffix] (1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray) (2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject)

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-lysis

Back 42

[compound form suffix] dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Front 43

-lytic

Back 43

[compound form suffix] pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis)

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-pathy

Back 44

[coumpound form suffix] disease

Front 45

-ptosis

Back 45

[compoun form suffix] dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)

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-rrhagia

Back 46

[compound form suffix] profuse discharge, hemorrage

Front 47

-rrhea

Back 47

[compound form suffix] profuse discharge, excessive secretion

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-rrhexis

Back 48

[compound form suffix] bursting (of tissue), rupture

Front 49

-scope

Back 49

[compound form suffix] an instrument form examining

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-scopy

Back 50

[compound form suffix] examination

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-tome

Back 51

[compound form suffix] a surgical instrument for cutting

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-tomy

Back 52

[compound form suffix] surgical incision