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53 Cards in this Set
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Aut- |
Combining form
self |
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Crin- |
Combining form
[seperate] secrete, secretion |
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Esthes(s)- |
Combining form
sensation, sensitivity, sense |
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Gen(e)-, -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(I)- |
Combining form
movement, motion |
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Ly(s)- |
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, hemorrahage |
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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(t)- |
Combining form
tendon |
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Therap(eu)- |
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 |
Combining suffix form
dilation, enlargement |
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-ectomy |
Combining suffix form
surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ |
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-gen |
Combining suffix form
substance that produces (something) |
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-genesis |
Combining suffix form
formation, origin |
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-genic |
Combining suffix form
causing, producing, caused |
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-genous |
Combining suffix form
by, produced by or in |
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-gram |
Combining suffix form
a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray) |
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-graph |
Combining suffix form
an instrument for recording the activity of an organ |
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-graphy |
Combining suffix form
1. the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination) 2. a descriptive treatise (on a subject) |
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-lysis |
Combining suffix form
dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration |
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-lytic |
Combining suffix form
pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration |
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-lysis |
Adjective-forming suffix
pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration |
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-pathy |
Combining suffix form
disease |
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-ptosis |
Combining suffix form
dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part) |
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-rrhagia |
Combining suffix form
profuse discharge, hemorrhage |
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-rrhea |
Combining suffix form
profuse discharge, excessive secretion |
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-rrhexis |
Combining suffix form
bursting (of tissue), rupture |
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-scope |
Combining suffix form
an instrument for examining |
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-scopy |
Combining suffix form
examination |
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-tome |
Combining suffix form
a surgical instrument for cutting |
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-tomy |
Combining suffix form
surgical incision |