Lesson 4: Medical Vocabulary

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
coming into being, produce

Front 5

GRAM-

Back 5

Combining form
[something written] a record

Front 6

GRAPH-

Back 6

Combining form
write, record

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IATR-

Back 7

Combining form
healer, physician, treatment

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IDI-

Back 8

Combining form
of one's self

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KINE-

Back 9

Combining form
move

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KINES(I)

Back 10

Combining form
movement, motion

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LY(S)-

Back 11

Combining form
destroy, breakdown

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MYX-

Back 12

Combining form
mucus

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ORTH-

Back 13

Combining form
straight, erect; normal

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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

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PT-

Back 17

Combining form
fall, sag, drop. prolapse

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PYR-

Back 18

Combining form
[fire] fever, burning

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PYRET-

Back 19

Combining form
fever

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PYREX-

Back 20

Combining form
be feverish

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RHE-

Back 21

Combining form
[run] flow, secrete

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RHAG-

Back 22

Combining form
[burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage

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RHEX-

Back 23

Combining form
rupture

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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 putrid] be infected

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TA-

Back 27

Combining form
stretching

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TEL-

Back 28

Combining form
end, completion

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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, incision

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TON-

Back 32

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

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-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

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-gen

Back 35

compound suffix form
substance that produces (something)

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-genesis

Back 36

compound suffix form
formation, origin

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-genic

Back 37

compound suffix form
causing, producing, caused

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-genous

Back 38

compound suffix form
by, produced by or in

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-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 instrument for recording the activity of an organ

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-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) dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

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-lysis

Back 42

compound suffix form(1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination) 2.) a descriptive treatise (on a subject) dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

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-lytic

Back 43

compound suffix form
pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disentegration (forms adj. from words in -lysis)

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-pathy

Back 44

compound suffix form
disease

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-ptosis

Back 45

compound suffix form
dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)

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-rrhagia

Back 46

compound suffix form
profuse discharge, hemorrhage

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-rrhea

Back 47

compound suffix form
profuse discharge, excessive secretion

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-rrhexis

Back 48

compound suffix form
bursting (of tissue), rupture

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-scope

Back 49

compound suffix form
an instrument for examining

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-scopy

Back 50

compound suffix form
examination

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-tome

Back 51

compound suffix form
a surgical instrument for cutting

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-tomy

Back 52

compound suffix form
surgical incision

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-stomy

Back 53

compound suffix form
surgery to create an opening