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Key Verbs
verbal variations of stem word verbs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -algia | pain neur/algia- nerve/pain |
| -audi; -audio | hear; hearing audio/meter- hearing/meter |
| bio- | to live bio/logy- study of living |
| cau-; caus- | to burn caus/algia- burning/pain |
| -centesis | puncture; perforate pneumono/centesis- lung/punture |
| -clas; -clast; -clasis | to smash; breakdown cyto/clasis- cell/breakdown |
| -duct-; -doch- | canal or to draw ab/duct/ion- away/draw or lead/ process |
| -dynia | pain thoraco/dynia - chest/pain |
| -ecta; ectasis | to dialate vas/ectasis- vessel/dialated |
| -edem- | to swell lymph/edema- watery/swelling |
| -ethes/ia; -phoro- | to feel (physical) to sense (mental) an/esthesia- without/body feeling (weakness) eu/phoria- good mental feeling |
| -fiss-; -schiz- | to split fiss/ion- splitting/process of |
| -flec; -flex- | to bend re/flex- again/bend |
| flu-; flux- | to flow af/flu/ent- toward/flow/refers to re/flux- again/flow |
| -gen | to produce, form, develop, or begin carcino/gen/esis- crab leg like/development/condition |
| -iatr; -iatr/o; -therap/y | to treat; cure ger/iatr/ics- old age/cure/procedure |
| -kine-; -kino-; kineso- -praxia | to move kinesi/ol/og/y- study of motion/procedure of |
| -liga; -desis | to bind liga/ment- to bind/smallness |
| -o/log/y | to study cardi/o/log/y- study of/science or study of/process of |
| -ly-; -lysis | to break up; to dissolve auto/lysis- cell self-destruction |
| -morph-; -morpho- | form; shape a/morph/ous- no definite form/refers to |
| olfact-; -osmia | to smell olfacto/phobia- fear of smells |
| -op-; opt-; -opto; -opsy | vision; sightl or to see my/opia- near-sighted bi/o/psy- live/viewing |
| palpit- | to flutter palpit/ation- flutter/ refers to |
| -par; -part; -partus-; -toci- | to labor partur/ition- giving birth/process of dys/toc/ia- act of difficult/birth/refers to |
| -pep- | to digest dys/pep/sia- faulty/disgestion/refers to |
| -pexy | to fix nerph/o/pex/y- kidney/surgical fixation/procedure of |
| -phag-; -phago- | to eat phago/cytosis- eating/cells increase |
| -phas- | to speak; utter dys/phas/ia- difficulty/speakng/ refers to |
| -phil- | to like; love; affinity for hemo/phil/iac- blood/love/refers to |
| -phob- | to fear hydro/phob/ia- water/fear/refers to |
| -phrag- | fence off; to wall off dia/phragm- across/partition acoss |
| -plas;-plasm; -plast/y -pleg- | repair; form; to grow rhino/plasty- nose/repairing neo/plasm- new/growth |
| -pnea | to breathe lack of/ breathing |
| phono | voice or sound a/phon/ia- lack of/voice or sound/refers to |
| -poie- | to make hemat/o/poie/sis- blood making condition |
| -ptosis | to fall to droop splanchn/o/ptosis- viscera/drooping |
| o/rrhagia | to burst forth; pour men/o/rrhagia- abnormal bleeding mentration/ refers to |
| -o/rrhaphy | to stuture nephr/o/rrhaph/y- suture or sewing procedure of |
| -therp/y | heal; treat; cure chem/o/therp/y- chemicals/cure/procedure of |
| -tomy | to cut; in/cise append/ec/tom/y- appendage/out/cut/refers to |
| -troph-; -troph/y | to nourish; to develop; formation process hyper/troph/y- increase/in size or over-nourishment/process of |
| -volvo- | to turn; twist volv/ulus- twisting of internal part/refers to |
| -vulvo- | to cover vulv/us- female gential covering/refers to |
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