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Med Term Less/Part 4
Medical Terminology Lesson/Parts Terms 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aut- | self |
| crin- | [separate] secrete, secretion |
| esthe(s)- | sensation, sensitivity, sense |
| gen(e)-, -gen | come into being; produce |
| gram- | [something written] a record |
| graph- | write, record |
| iatr- | healer, physician; treatment |
| idi- | of one's self |
| kine- | move |
| kines(i)- | movement, motion |
| ly(s)- | destroy, break down |
| myx- | mucus |
| orth- | straight, erect; normal |
| ot- | ear |
| path- | [suffering] disease |
| phil- | love; have an affinity for |
| pt- | fall, sag, drop, prolapse |
| pyr- | [fire] fever, burning |
| pyret- | fever |
| pyrex- | be feverish |
| rhe- | [run] flow, secrete |
| rhag- | [burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage |
| rhex- | rupture |
| rhin- | nose |
| scop- | look at, examine |
| sep- | [be putrid] be infected |
| ta- | stretching |
| tel- | end, completion |
| ten-, tenon(t)- | tendon |
| therap(eu)- | treat medically, heal |
| tom- | a cutting, slice, incision |
| ton- | [a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension |
| -gen (compound suffix) | substance that produces (something) |
| -genesis (compound suffix) | formation, origin |
| -genic, -genous (compound suffix) | causing, producing, caused by produced by or in |
| -gram (compound suffix) | a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray) |
| -graph (compound suffix) | an instrument for recording the activity of an organ |
| -graphy (compound suffix) | (1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination) (2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject) |
| -lysis (compound suffix) | dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration |
| -lytic (compound suffix) | pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (forms adjectives form words ending in -lysis) |
| -pathy (compound suffix) | disease |
| -ptosis (compound suffix) | dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part) |
| -rrhagia (compound suffix) | profuse discharge, hemorrhage |
| -rrhea (compound suffix | profuse discharge, excessive secretion |
| -rrhexis (compound suffix) | bursting (of tissue), rupture |
| -scope (compound suffix) | an instrument for examing |
| -scopy (compound suffix) | examination |
| -tome (compound suffix) | a surgical instrument for cutting |
| -tomy (compound suffix) | surgical incision |
| -ectasia, -ectasis (compound suffix) | dilation, enlargement |
| -ectomy (compound suffix) | surgical excision; removal or all (total excision) or part (partial excision) or an organ |
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