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51 Cards in this Set
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Aut- |
Combining Form self |
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Crin- |
Combining Form (separate) secrete, secretion |
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Esthe- (Esthes-) |
Combining Form sensation, sensitivity, sense |
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Gen- (Gene-, -Gen) |
Combining Form come into being; produce |
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Gram- |
Combining Form (something written) a record |
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Graph- |
Combining Form write, record |
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Iatr- |
Combining Form healer, physician; treatment |
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Idi- |
Combining Form of one's self |
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Kine- |
Combining Form move |
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Kines (Kinesi-) |
Combining Form movement, motion |
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Ly- (Lys-) |
Combining Form destroy, break down |
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Myx- |
Combining Form Mucus |
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Orth- |
Combining Form straight, erect; normal |
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Ot- |
Combining Form ear |
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Path- |
Combining Form (suffering) disease |
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Phil- |
Combining Form love; have an affinity for |
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Pt- |
Combining Form fall, sag, drop, prolapse |
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Pyr- |
Combining Form (fire) fever, burning |
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Pyret- |
Combining Form fever |
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Pyrex- |
Combining Form be feverish |
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Rhe- |
Combining Form (run) flow, secrete |
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Rhag- |
Combining Form (burst forth) flow profusely, hemorrhage |
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Rhex- |
Combining Form rupture |
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Rhin- |
Combining Form nose |
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Scop- |
Combining Form look at, examine |
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Sep- |
Combining Form (be putrid) be infected |
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Ta- |
Combining Form stretching |
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Tel- |
Combining Form end, completion |
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Ten- (Tenon-, Tenont-) |
Combining Form tendon |
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Therap- (Therapeu-) |
Combining Form treat medically, heal |
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Tom- |
Combining Form a cutting, slice, incision |
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Ton- |
Combining Form (a stretching) (muscular) tone, tension |
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-ectasia, -ectasis |
Compound Suffix Form dilation, enlargement |
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-ectomy |
Compound Suffix Form surgical excision; removal of all or part of an organ |
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-gen |
Compound Suffix Form substance that produces (something) |
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-genesis |
Compound Suffix Form formation, origin |
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-genic -genous |
Compound Suffix Form causing, producing, caused by, produced by, or in |
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-gram |
Compound Suffix Form a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray) |
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-graph |
Compound Suffix Form an instrument for recording the activity of an organ |
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-graphy |
Compound Suffix Form 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 |
Compound Suffix Form dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration |
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-lytic |
Compound Suffix Form pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis) |
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-pathy |
Compound Suffix Form disease |
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-ptosis |
Compound Suffix Form dropping, sagging, prolaspe (of an organ or part) |
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-rrhagia |
Compound Suffix Form profuse discharge, hemorrhage |
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-rrhea |
Compound Suffix Form profuse discharge, excessive secretion |
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-rrhexis |
Compound Suffix Form bursting (of tissues), rupture |
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-scope |
Compound Suffix Form an instrument for examining |
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-scopy |
Compound Suffix Form examination |
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-tome |
Compound Suffix Form a surgical instrument for cutting |
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-tomy |
Compound Suffix Form surgical incision |