Medical Vocabulary Chapter 4

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Aut-
Combining Form

Back 1

self

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Crin-
Combining Form

Back 2

[separate] secrete, sense

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Esthe(s)-
Combining Form

Back 3

sensation, sensitivity, sense

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Gen(e)-, -gen
Combining Form

Back 4

come into being; produce

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Gram-
Combining Form

Back 5

[something written] a record

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Graph-
Combining Form

Back 6

write, record

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Iatr-
Combining Form

Back 7

healer, physician, treatment

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Idi-
Combining Form

Back 8

of one's self

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Kine-
Combining Form

Back 9

move

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Kines(i)-
Combining Form

Back 10

movement, motion

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Ly(s)-
Combining Form

Back 11

destroy, break down

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Myx-
Combining Form

Back 12

mucus

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Orth-
Combining Form

Back 13

straight, erect, normal

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Ot-
Combining Form

Back 14

ear

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Path-
Combining Form

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[suffering] disease

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Phil-
Combining Form

Back 16

love; have an affinity for

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Pt-
Combining Form

Back 17

fall, sag, drop, prolapse

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Pyr-
Combining Form

Back 18

[fire] fever, burning

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Pyret-
Combining Form

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fever

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Pyrex-
Combining Form

Back 20

be feverish

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Rhe-
Combining Form

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[run] flow, secrete

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Rhag-
Combining Form

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[burst forth] flow profusely, hemmorhage

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Rhex-
Combining Form

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rupture

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Rhin-
Combining Form

Back 24

nose

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Scop-
Combining Form

Back 25

look at, examine

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Sep-
Combining Form

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[be putrid] be infected

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Ta-
Combining Form

Back 27

stretching

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Tel-
Combining Form

Back 28

end, completion

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Ten-, Tenon(t)-
Combining Form

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tendon

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Therap(eu)
Combining Form

Back 30

treat medically, heal

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Tom-
Combining Form

Back 31

a cutting, slice, incision

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Ton-
Combining Form

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[a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension

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-ecstasia, -ecstasis
Compound Suffix Form

Back 33

dilation, enlargement

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-ectomy
Compound Suffix Form

Back 34

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

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-gen
Compound Suffix Form

Back 35

substance that produces (something)

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-genesis
Compound Suffix Form

Back 36

formation, origin

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-genic
Compound Suffix Form

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causing, producing, caused

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-genous
Compound Suffix Form

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by, produced by or in

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-gram
Compound Suffix Form

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

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-graph
Compound Suffix Form

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an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

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-graphy
Compound Suffix Form

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(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
Compound Suffix Form

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dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

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-lytic
Compound Suffix Form

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pertaining to dissolution or decomposition

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-pathy
Compound Suffix Form

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disease

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-ptosis
Compound Suffix Form

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

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-rrhagia
Compound Suffix Form

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profuse discharge, hemorrhage

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-rrhea
Compound Suffix Form

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profuse discharge, excess secretion

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-rrhexis
Compound Suffix Form

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bursting (of tissues), rupture

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-scope
Compound Suffix Form

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an instrument for examining

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-scopy
Compound Suffix Form

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examination

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-tome
Compound Suffix Form

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a surgical instrument for cutting

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-tomy
Compound Suffix Form

Back 52

surgical incision