Medical Vocab Lesson 4

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

Iatr-

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

straight, 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, having 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 from

be feverish

Front 21

Rhe-

Back 21

Combining form

(Run) flow secrete

Front 22

Rhag-

Back 22

Combining form

(burst forth) flow profusely, hemmorage

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

Cobining form

(be putrid)be infected

Front 27

Ta-

Back 27

Combinig 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 medically, heal

Front 31

Tom-

Back 31

Combining form

a cutting, slice, incision

Front 32

Ton-

Back 32

Combining form

(a stretching)[muscular] tone,tension

Front 33

-ectasia,-ectasis

Back 33

Compound suffix Form

dilation, enlargement

Front 34

-ectomy

Back 34

Compound suffix form

surgical excision; removal of all (total excision)of an organ

Front 35

-gen

Back 35

Compound suffix form

substance that produces (something)

Front 36

-genesis

Back 36

Compound suffix form


Formation origin

Front 37

-genic, genous

Back 37

Compound suffix form

Causing, producing, caused 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

-graph

Back 39

Compound suffix form

an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Front 40

-graphy

Back 40

Compound suffix form
(1) the recording of the activity of an organ(usually by x-ray examinations)
2) a descriptive treatise(on a subject)

Front 41

-lysis

Back 41

Compound suffix form

dissolution, reduction, decompoosition, desintigration

Front 42

-lytic

Back 42

Compound suffix form

pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disentegration (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

proguse discharge, hemmorage

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