Medical Vocab Chapter 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, breakdown

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; 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 Forms - dilation, enlargement

Front 34

-ectomy

Back 34

Compound Suffix Forms - surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ

Front 35

-gen

Back 35

Compound Suffix Forms - substance that produces (something)

Front 36

-genesis

Back 36

Compound Suffix Forms - formation, origin

Front 37

-genic, genous

Back 37

Compound Suffix Forms - causing, producing, caused by, produced by or in

Front 38

-gram

Back 38

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

Front 39

-graph

Back 39

Compound Suffix Forms - an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Front 40

-graphy

Back 40

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

Front 41

-lysis

Back 41

Compound Suffix Forms - dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Front 42

-lytic

Back 42

Compound Suffix Forms - pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in "lysis")

Front 43

-pathy

Back 43

Compound Suffix Forms - disease

Front 44

-ptosis

Back 44

Compound Suffix Forms - dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)

Front 45

-rrhagia

Back 45

Compound Suffix Forms - profuse discharge, hemorrhage

Front 46

-rrhea

Back 46

Compound Suffix Forms - profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Front 47

-rrhexis

Back 47

Compound Suffix Forms - bursting (of tissues), rupture

Front 48

-scope

Back 48

Compound Suffix Forms - an instrument for examining

Front 49

-scopy

Back 49

Compound Suffix Forms - examination

Front 50

-tome

Back 50

Compound Suffix Forms - a surgical instrument for cutting

Front 51

-tomy

Back 51

Compound Suffix Forms - surgical incision