Lesson 4 Medical Terminology Flash Cards

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Title: Lesson 4 Medical Terminology
Description: Lesson 4 flashcards
Number of Cards: 52
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Author: ElliottStamile
Created: 2012-02-06
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    • Question
    • Answer
    • Side 3
    • AUT-
    • Combining form
      self
    • CRIN-
    • Combining form
      [separate] secrete, secretion
    • ESTHE(S)-
    • Combining form
      sensation, sensitivity, sense
    • GEN(E)-, -GEN
    • Combining form
      come into being; produce
    • GRAM-
    • Combining form
      [something written] a record
    • GRAPH-
    • Combining form
      write, record
    • IATR-
    • Combining form
      healer, physician; treatment
    • IDI-
    • Combining form
      of one's self
    • KINE-
    • Combining form
      move
    • KINES(I)-
    • Combining form
      movement, motion
    • LY(S)-
    • Combining form
      destroy, break down
    • MYX-
    • Combining form
      mucus
    • ORTH-
    • Combining form
      straight, erect; normal
    • OT-
    • Combining form
      ear
    • PATH
    • Combining form
      [suffering] disease
    • PHIL-
    • Combining form
      love, have an affinity for
    • PT-
    • Combining form
      fall, sag, drop, prolapse
    • PYR-
    • Combining form
      [fire] fever, burning
    • PYRET-
    • Combining form
      fever
    • PYREX-
    • Combining form
      be feverish
    • RHE-
    • Combining form
      [run] flow, secrete
    • RHAG-
    • Combining form
      [burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage
    • RHEX-
    • Combining form
      rupture
    • RHIN-
    • Combining form
      nose
    • SCOP-
    • Combining form
      look at, examine
    • SEP-
    • Combining form
      [be putrid] be infected
    • TA-
    • Combining form
      stretching
    • TEL-
    • Combining form
      end, completion
    • TEN-, TENON(T)-
    • Combining form
      tendon
    • THERAP(EU)-
    • Combining form
      treat medically, heal
    • TOM-
    • Combining form
      a cutting, slice, incision
    • TON-
    • Combining form
      [a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension
    • -ECTASIA, -ECTASIS
    • Compound Suffix Form
      dilation, enlargement
    • -ECTOMY
    • Compound Suffix Form
      surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ
    • -GEN
    • Compound Suffix Form
      substance that produces (something)
    • -GENESIS
    • Compound Suffix Form
      formation, origin
    • -GENIC
    • Compound Suffix Form
      causing, producing, caused
    • -GENOUS
    • Compound Suffix Form
      by, produced by or in
    • -GRAM
    • Compound Suffix Form
      a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray)
    • -GRAPH
    • Compound Suffix Form
      an instrument for recording the activity of an organ
    • -GRAPHY
    • Compound Suffix Form
      1. the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination)
      2. a descriptive treatise (on a subject)
    • -LYSIS
    • Compound Suffix Form
      dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration
    • -LYTIC
    • Compound Suffix Form
      pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives from words ending in -lysis)
    • -PATHY
    • Compound Suffix Form
      disease
    • -PTOSIS
    • Compound Suffix Form
      dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)
    • -RRHAGIA
    • Compound Suffix Form
      profuse discharge, hemorrhage
    • -RRHEA
    • Compound Suffix Form
      profuse, discharge, excessive secretion
    • -RRHEXIS
    • Compound Suffix Form
      bursting (of tissues), rupture
    • -SCOPE
    • Compound Suffix Form
      an instrument for examining
    • -SCOPY
    • Compound Suffix Form
      examination
    • -TOME
    • Compound Suffix Form
      a surgical instrument for cutting
    • -TOMY
    • Compound Suffix Form
      surgical incision