Lesson 4: Medical Vocabulary

Front 1

Aut-

Back 1

-Combining Form
-Self

Front 2

Crin-

Back 2

-Combining Form
-[Seperate] 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

Latr-

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
-Sraight, 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 medially, heal

Front 31

Tom-

Back 31

-Combining form
-a cutting, slice, incision

Front 32

Ton-

Back 32

[a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension

Front 33

-ectasia, -ectasis

Back 33

-Compound suffix
-dilation, enlargement

Front 34

-ectomy

Back 34

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

Front 35

-gen

Back 35

-compound suffix
-substance that produces (something)

Front 36

-genesis

Back 36

-compound suffix
-formation, origin

Front 37

-genic

Back 37

-compound suffix
-causing, producing, caused

Front 38

-genous

Back 38

-compound suffix
-by, produced by or in

Front 39

-gram

Back 39

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

Front 40

-graph

Back 40

-compound suffix
-an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Front 41

-graphy

Back 41

-compound suffix
-(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
-dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disinigration

Front 43

-lytic

Back 43

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

Front 44

-pathy

Back 44

-compound suffix
-disease

Front 45

-ptosis

Back 45

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

Front 46

-rrhea

Back 46

-compound suffix
-profuse, discharge, excessive secretion

Front 47

-rrhagia

Back 47

-compound suffix
-profuse, discharge, hemorrhage

Front 48

-rrhexis

Back 48

-compound suffix
-bursting (of tissue), rupture

Front 49

-scope

Back 49

-compound suffix
-an instrument for examining

Front 50

-scopy

Back 50

-compound suffix
-examination

Front 51

-tome

Back 51

-compound suffix
-a surgical instrument for cutting

Front 52

-tomy

Back 52

-compound suffix
-surgical incision