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Medical Terminology Lesson/Parts Terms 4

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Term
Definition
Aut-   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-   [something written] 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, burning  
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pyret-   fever  
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pyrex-   be feverish  
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rhe-   [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)-   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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-gen (compound suffix)   substance that produces (something)  
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-genesis (compound suffix)   formation, origin  
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-genic, -genous (compound suffix)   causing, producing, caused by produced by or in  
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-gram (compound suffix)   a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray)  
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-graph (compound suffix)   an instrument for recording the activity of an organ  
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-graphy (compound suffix)   (1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination) (2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject)  
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-lysis (compound suffix)   dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration  
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-lytic (compound suffix)   pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives form words ending in -lysis)  
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-pathy (compound suffix)   disease  
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-ptosis (compound suffix)   dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)  
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-rrhagia (compound suffix)   profuse discharge, hemorrhage  
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-rrhea (compound suffix   profuse discharge, excessive secretion  
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-rrhexis (compound suffix)   bursting (of tissue), rupture  
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-scope (compound suffix)   an instrument for examing  
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-scopy (compound suffix)   examination  
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-tome (compound suffix)   a surgical instrument for cutting  
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-tomy (compound suffix)   surgical incision  
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-ectasia, -ectasis (compound suffix)   dilation, enlargement  
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-ectomy (compound suffix)   surgical excision; removal or all (total excision) or part (partial excision) or an organ  
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