Medical Vocabulary - Lesson 4

Front 1

AUT-

Back 1

COMBINING FORM

self

Front 2

CRIN-

Back 2

COMBINING FORM

[separate] 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

mucous

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; have 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 FORM

be feverish

Front 21

RHE-

Back 21

COMBINING FORM

[run] flow, secrete

Front 22

RHAG-

Back 22

COMBINING FORM

[burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage

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

COMBINING FORM

[be putrid] be infected

Front 27

TA-

Back 27

COMBINING 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) or part (partial 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

Back 37

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

causing, producing, caused

Front 38

-genous

Back 38

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

by, produced by or in

Front 39

-gram

Back 39

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

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

Front 40

-graph

Back 40

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Front 41

-graphy

Back 41

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

(1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by X-ray examination)
(2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject)

Front 42

-lysis

Back 42

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Front 43

-lytic

Back 43

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (form adjectives from words ending in -lysis)

Front 44

-pathy

Back 44

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

disease

Front 45

-ptosis

Back 45

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

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

Front 46

-rrhagia

Back 46

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

profuse discharge, hemorrhage

Front 47

-rrhea

Back 47

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Front 48

-rrhexis

Back 48

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

bursting (of tissues), rupture

Front 49

-scope

Back 49

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

an instrument for examining

Front 50

-scopy

Back 50

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

examination

Front 51

-tome

Back 51

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

a surgical instrument for cutting

Front 52

-tomy

Back 52

COMPOUND SUFFIX FORM

surgical incision