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82 Cards in this Set
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arachn-
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combining form
spider, web; arachnoid membrane |
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aut-
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combining form
self |
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chlor-
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combining form
green |
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crin-
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combining form
[separate] secrete, secretion |
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chondr-
|
combining form
cartilage |
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esthe(s)-
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combining form
sensation, sensityivity, sense |
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dactyl-
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combining form
finger, toe |
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gen(e)-, -gen
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combining form
coming into being, produce |
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derm(at)-, (-derma)
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combining form
skin |
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gram-
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combining form
[something written] a record |
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(h)elc-
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combining form
ulcer |
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graph-
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combining form
write, record |
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hird(ot)-, (-idr-)
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combining form
sweat |
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iatr-
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combining form
healer, physician; treatment |
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hist(i)-
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combining form
[web] tissue |
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idi-
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combining form
of one's self |
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hydr-
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combining form
water, fluid |
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kine-
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combining form
move |
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hypn-
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combining form
sleep |
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kines(i)-
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combining form
movement, motion |
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icter-
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Combining Form
jaundice |
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ly(s)-
|
combining form
destroy, breakdown |
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in-, (inos-)
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Combining Form
fiber, muscle |
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myx-
|
combining form
mucus |
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is-
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Combining Form
equal, same, similar, alike |
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orth-
|
combining form
straight, erect; normal |
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mening-, (-meninx)
|
Combining Form
meningeal membrane, meninges |
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ot-
|
combining form
ear |
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my(s)-
|
Combining Form
[mouse] muscle |
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path-
|
combining form
[suffering] disease |
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myc(et)-
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Combining Form
[mushroom] fungus |
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phil-
|
combining form
love; have an affinity for |
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myel-
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Combining Form
bone marrow, spinal cord |
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pt-
|
combining form
fall, sag, drop, prolapse |
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narc-
|
Combining Form
stupor, numbness |
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pyr-
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combining form
[fire] fever, burning |
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necr-
|
Combining Form
corpse; dead |
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pyret-
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combining form
fever |
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olig-
|
Combining Form
few, deficient |
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pyrex-
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combining form
be feverish |
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onych-
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Combining Form
fingernail, toenail |
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rhe-
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combining form
[run] flow, secrete |
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pod-
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Combining Form
foot |
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rhag-
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combining form
[burst forth] flow profuely, hemorrhage |
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poli-
|
Combining Form
[gray] gray matter of the brain and spinal cord |
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rhex-
|
combining form
rupture |
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poly-
|
Combining Form
many, excessive |
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rhin-
|
combining form
nose |
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por-
|
Combining Form
passage, opening, duct, pore, cavity |
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scop-
|
combining form
look at, examine |
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psych-
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Conbining form
[soul] mind |
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sep-
|
combining form
[be putrid] be infected |
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som(at)-, (-soma)
|
Conbining form
body |
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ta-
|
combining form
stretching |
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sthen-
|
Conbining form
strength |
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tel-
|
combining form
end, completion |
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trachel-
|
Conbining form
neck, cervix |
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ten-, tenon(t)-
|
combining form
tendon |
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xanth-
|
Conbining form
yellow |
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therap(eu)-
|
combining form
treat medically, heal |
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tom-
|
combining form
a cutting, slice, incision |
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ton-
|
combining form
[a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension |
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-ectasia, -ectasis
|
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
|
compound suffix form
substance that producdes (something) |
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-genesis
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compound suffix form
formation, origin |
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-genic
|
compound suffix form
causing, producing, caused |
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-genous
|
compound suffix form
by, produced by or in |
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-gram
|
compound suffix form
a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray) |
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-graph
|
compound suffix form
am instrument for recording the activity of an organ |
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-graphy
|
compound suffix form
(1) the recording of the activity of an organ (2) a descriptive treatise (on an subject) |
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-lysis
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compound suffix form
dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration |
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-lytic
|
compound suffix form
pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (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
prfuse, discharge, excesive secretion |
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-rrhexis
|
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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a surgical instrument for cutting
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-tomy
|
compound suffix form
surgical incision |