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Combining Forms and Related Suffixes 3.4

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Combining Form
Suffixes
Meaning
gen/o     beginning, origin  
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gen/o   -genic   produced by or in  
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gen/o   -genesis   producing or forming  
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gram/o     to record  
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gram/o   -gram   a record  
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gram/o   -graph   instrument for recording  
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gram/o   -graphy   process of recording  
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kinesi/o     movement  
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kinesi/o   -kinesia, -kinesis   movement, motion  
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leps/o   -lepsy   seizure (epilepsy)  
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lys/o     destruction, dissolving  
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lys/o   -lysin   that which destroys  
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lys/o   -lysis   process of destroying  
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lys/o   -lytic   capable of or producing destruction  
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malac/o     soft, softening  
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malac/o   -malacia   abnormal softening  
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megal/o     large, enlarged  
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megal/o   -megaly   enlargement (acromegaly)  
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metr/o     measure, uterine tissue  
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metr/o   -meter   instrument used to measure  
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metr/o   -metry   process of measuring (geometry)  
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path/o   -pathy   disease  
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phag/o     eat, ingest (phagocyte)  
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phag/o   -phagia, -phagic, -phagy   eating, swallowing  
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phas/o   -phasia   speech  
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pleg/o   -plegia   paralysis (paraplegia)  
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schis/o, schiz/o, schist/o   -schisis   split, cleft (schizophrenic)  
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scler/o     hard  
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scler/o   -sclerosis   hardening  
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scop/o     to examine, to view  
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scop/o   -scope   instrument used for viewing (microscope)  
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scop/o   -scopy   process of examing visually (microscopy)  
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troph/o   -trophic, -trophy   nutrition  
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cyt/i   -cyte   cell  
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