Lesson 4 Medical Vocabulary Flash Cards

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

cone into being, produce

Front 5

Gram-

Back 5

combining form

[something written] a record

Front 6

Iatr-

Back 6

combining form

healer, physician, treatment

Front 7

idi-

Back 7

combining form

of one's self

Front 8

Kine-

Back 8

combining form

move

Front 9

Kines(i)

Back 9

combining form

movement, motion

Front 10

Ly(s)

Back 10

combining form

destroy, break down

Front 11

Myx-

Back 11

combining form

mucus

Front 12

Orth-

Back 12

combining form

straight, erect, normal

Front 13

Ot-

Back 13

combining form

ear

Front 14

Path-

Back 14

combining form

[suffering] disease

Front 15

Phil-

Back 15

combining form

love, have an affinity for

Front 16

Pt-

Back 16

combining form

fall, sag, drop, prolapse

Front 17

Pyr-

Back 17

combining form

[fire] fever, burning

Front 18

Pyret-

Back 18

combining form

fever

Front 19

Pyrex-

Back 19

combining form

be feverish

Front 20

Rhe-

Back 20

combining form

[run] flow, secrete

Front 21

Rhag-

Back 21

combining form

[burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage

Front 22

Rhex-

Back 22

combining form

rupture

Front 23

Rhin-

Back 23

combining form

nose

Front 24

Scop-

Back 24

combining form

look at, examine

Front 25

Sep-

Back 25

combining form

[be putrid] be infected

Front 26

Ta-

Back 26

combining form

stretching

Front 27

Tel-

Back 27

combining form

end, complexion

Front 28

Ten-
Tenon(t)-

Back 28

combining form

tendon

Front 29

Therap(eu)

Back 29

combining form

treat medically, heal

Front 30

Tom-

Back 30

combining form

a cutting, slice, incision

Front 31

Ton-

Back 31

combining form

[a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension

Front 32

-ectasia
-ectasis

Back 32

Compound suffix form

dilation, enlargement

Front 33

-ectomy

Back 33

Compound suffix form

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

Front 34

-gen

Back 34

Compound suffix form

substance that produces (something)

Front 35

-genesis

Back 35

Compound suffix form

formation, origin

Front 36

-genic

Back 36

Compound suffix form

causing, producing, caused

Front 37

-genous

Back 37

Compound suffix form

by, produced by or in

Front 38

-gram

Back 38

Compound suffix form

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

Front 39

-graphy

Back 39

Compound suffix form

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

Front 40

-graph

Back 40

Compound suffix form

an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Front 41

-lysis

Back 41

Compound suffix form

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Front 42

-lytic

Back 42

Compound suffix form

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

Front 43

-pathy

Back 43

Compound suffix form

disease

Front 44

-ptosis

Back 44

Compound suffix form

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

Front 45

-rrhagia

Back 45

Compound suffix form

profuse discharge, hemorrhage

Front 46

-rrhea

Back 46

Compound suffix form

profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Front 47

-rrhexis

Back 47

Compound suffix form

bursting (of tissues), rupture

Front 48

-scope

Back 48

Compound suffix form

an instrument for examining

Front 49

-scopy

Back 49

Compound suffix form

examination

Front 50

-tome

Back 50

Compound suffix form

a surgical instrument for cutting

Front 51

-tomy

Back 51

Compound suffix form

surgical incision

Front 52

-stomy

Back 52

Compound suffix form

surgery to create an opening