Med Vocab Lesson 4

Front 1

aut

Back 1

self
(combining form)

Front 2

crin

Back 2

secrete, secretion
(combining form)

Front 3

esthe(s)

Back 3

sensation, sensitivity, sense
(combining form)

Front 4

gen(e)-, -gen

Back 4

come into being; produce
(combining form)

Front 5

gram

Back 5

[something written] a record
(combining form)

Front 6

graph

Back 6

write, record
(combining form)

Front 7

iatr

Back 7

healer, physician; treatment
(combining form)

Front 8

idi

Back 8

of one's self
(combining form)

Front 9

kine

Back 9

move
(combining form)

Front 10

kines(i)

Back 10

movement, motion
(combining form)

Front 11

ly(s)

Back 11

destriy, break down
(combining form)

Front 12

myx

Back 12

mucus
(combining form)

Front 13

orth

Back 13

straight, erect; normal
(combining form)

Front 14

ot

Back 14

ear
(combining form)

Front 15

path

Back 15

[suffering] disease
(combining form)

Front 16

phil

Back 16

love; have an affinity for
(combining form)

Front 17

pt

Back 17

fall, sag, drop, prolapse
(combining form)

Front 18

pyr

Back 18

[fire] fever, burning
(combining form)

Front 19

pyret

Back 19

fever
(combining form)

Front 20

pyrex

Back 20

be feverish
(combining form)

Front 21

rhe

Back 21

[run] flow, secrete
(combining form)

Front 22

rhag

Back 22

[burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage
(combining form)

Front 23

rhex

Back 23

rupture
(combining form)

Front 24

rhin

Back 24

nose
(combining form)

Front 25

scop

Back 25

look at, examine
(combining form)

Front 26

sep

Back 26

[be putrid] be infected
(combining form)

Front 27

ta

Back 27

stretching
(combining form)

Front 28

tel

Back 28

end, completion
(combining form)

Front 29

ten, tenon(t)

Back 29

tendon
(combining form

Front 30

therap(eu)

Back 30

treat medically, heal
(combining form)

Front 31

tom

Back 31

a cutting, slice, incision
(combining form)

Front 32

ton

Back 32

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

Front 33

-ectasia, -ectasis

Back 33

dilation, enlargement
(compound suffix form)

Front 34

-ectomy

Back 34

surgical excision; removal of all or part of an organ
(compound suffix form)

Front 35

-gen

Back 35

substance that produces something
(not actually suffix form)

Front 36

-genesis

Back 36

formation, origin
(compound suffix form)

Front 37

-genic

Back 37

causing, producing, caused
(compound suffix form)

Front 38

-genous

Back 38

by, produced by or in
(compound suffix form)

Front 39

-gram

Back 39

a record of the activity of an organ
(compound suffix form)

Front 40

-graph

Back 40

an instrument for recording of an organ
(compound suffix form)

Front 41

-graphy

Back 41

1. the recording of the activity of an organ
2. a descriptive treatise
(compound suffix form)

Front 42

-lysis

Back 42

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration
(compound suffix form)

Front 43

-lytic

Back 43

pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration
(compound suffix form)

Front 44

-pathy

Back 44

disease
(compound suffix form)

Front 45

-ptosis

Back 45

dropping, sagging, prolapse
(compound suffix form)

Front 46

-rrhagia

Back 46

profuse discharge, hemorrhage
(compound suffix form)

Front 47

-rrhea

Back 47

profuse discharge, excessive secretion
(compound suffix form)

Front 48

-rrhexis

Back 48

busting (of tissues), rupture
(compound suffix form)

Front 49

-scope

Back 49

an instrument for examining
(compound suffix form)

Front 50

-tome

Back 50

a surgical instrument for cutting
(compound suffix form)

Front 51

-tomy

Back 51

surgical incision
(compound suffix form)