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52 Cards in this Set
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aut-
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Combining Form
self |
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crin-
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Combining Form
[separate] secrete, secretion |
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esthe(s)-
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Combining Form
sensation, sensitivity, sense |
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gen(e)-, -gen
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Combining Form
come into being; produce |
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gram-
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Combining Form
[something written] a record |
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graph-
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Combining Form
write, record |
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iatr-
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Combining Form
healer, physician, treatment |
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idi-
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Combining Form
of one's self |
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kine-
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Combining Form
move |
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kines(i)-
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Combining Form
movement, motion |
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ly(s)-
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Combining Form
destroy, break down |
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myx-
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Combining Form
mucus |
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orth-
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Combining Form
straight, erect; normal |
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ot-
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Combining Form
ear |
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path-
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Combining Form
[suffering] disease |
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phil-
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Combining Form
love; have an affinity for |
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pt-
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Combining Form
fall, sag, drop, prolapse |
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pyr-
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Combining Form
[fire] fever, burning |
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pyret-
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Combining Form
fever |
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pyrex-
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Combining Form
be feverish |
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rhe-
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Combining Form
[run] flow, secrete |
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rhag-
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Combining Form
[burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage |
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rhex-
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Combining Form
rupture |
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rhin-
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Combining Form
nose |
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scop-
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Combining Form
look at, examine |
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sep-
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Combining Form
[be putrid] be infected |
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ta-
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Combining Form
stretching |
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tel-
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Combining Form
end, completion |
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ten-, tenon(t)-
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Combining Form tendon
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therap(eu)
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Combining Form
treat medically, heal |
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tom-
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Combining Form
a cutting slice, incision |
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ton-
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Combining Form
[a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension |
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-ectasia, -ectasis
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Compound Suffix Form
dilation, enlargement |
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-ectomy
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Compound Suffix Form
surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ |
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-gen
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Compound Suffix Form
substance that produces (something) |
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-genesis
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Compound Suffix Form
formation, origin |
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-genic
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Compound Suffix Form
causing, producing, caused |
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-genous
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Compound Suffix Form
by, produced by, or in |
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-gram
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Compound Suffix Form
a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray) |
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-graph
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Compound Suffix Form
an instrument for recording the activity of an organ |
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-graphy
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Compound 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
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Compound Suffix Form
dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintergration |
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-lytic
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Compound Suffix Form
pertaining to dissolution or deomposisition, disintergration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis) |
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-pathy
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Compound Suffix Form
disease |
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-ptosis
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Compound Suffix Form
dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part) |
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-rrhagia
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Compound Suffix Form
profuse discharge, hemorrhage |
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-rrhea
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Compound Suffix Form
profuse discharge, excessive secretionofu |
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-rrhexis
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Compound Suffix Form
bursting (of tissues), rupture |
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-scope
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Compound Suffix Form
an instrument for examining |
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-scopy
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Compound Suffix Form
examination |
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-tome
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Compound Suffix Form
a surgical instrument for cutting |
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-tomy
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Compound Suffix Form
surgical incision |