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52 Cards in this Set
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aut-
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self |
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crin-
|
[separate] secrete, secretion |
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esthe(s)- |
sensation, sensitivity, sense |
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gen(e)-, -gen |
come into being; produce |
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gram- |
a record |
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graph- |
write, record |
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iatr- |
healer, physician; treatment |
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idi- |
of one's self |
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kine- |
move |
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kines(i)- |
movement, motion |
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ly(s)- |
destroy, break down |
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myx- |
mucus |
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orth- |
straight, erect; normal |
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ot- |
ear |
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path- |
[suffering] disease |
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phil- |
love; have an affinity for |
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pt- |
fall, sag, drop, prolapse |
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pyr- |
[fire] fever, burining |
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pyret- |
fever |
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pyrex- |
be feverish |
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rhe-
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Combining Form
[run] flow, secrete |
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rhag- |
[burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage |
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rhex-
|
rupture |
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rhin- |
nose |
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scop- |
look at, examine |
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sep- |
[be putrid] be infected |
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ta-
|
stretching |
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tel- |
end, completion |
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ten-, tenon(t)- |
tendon |
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therap(eu)-
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treat medically, heal |
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tom- |
a cutting, slice,incision |
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ton- |
[a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension |
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-ectasia, -ectasis |
dilation, enlargement |
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-ectomy |
surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ |
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-gen
|
substance that produces (something) |
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-genesis
|
formation, origin |
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-genic
|
causing, producing, caused |
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-genous
|
by, produced by or in |
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-gram
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a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray) |
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-graph |
an instrument for recording the activity of an organ |
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-graphy
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(1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination) (2) a description treatise (on a subject) |
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-lysis
|
dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration |
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-lytic
|
pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis) |
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-pathy
|
disease |
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-ptosis
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dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part) |
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-rrhagia
|
profuse discharge, hemorrhage |
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-rrhea |
profuse discharge, excessive secretion |
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-rrhexis |
bursting (of tissues), rupture |
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-scope
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an instrument for examining |
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-scopy |
examination |
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-tome |
a surgical instrument for cutting |
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-tomy |
surgical incision |