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Medical Terminology: Exercuses of Etymology
Lesson 4
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Medical
Undergraduate 3
02/22/2011
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AUT-
 Definition
self
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CRIN
 Definition
{separate} secrete, secretion
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ESTHE(S)-
 Definition
sensations, sensitivity, sense
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GEN(E)-, GEN
 Definition
come into being; produce
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GRAM-
 Definition
{something written} a record
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GRAPH-
 Definition
write, record
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IATR-
 Definition
healer, physician; treatment
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IDI-
 Definition
of one's self
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KINE-
 Definition
move
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KINES(I)-
 Definition
movement, motion
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LY(S)-
 Definition
destroy, break down
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MYX-
 Definition
mucus
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ORTH-
 Definition
straight, erect; normal
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OT-
 Definition
ear
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PATH-
 Definition
{suffering} disease
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PHIL-
 Definition
love; have an affinity for
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PT-
 Definition
fall, sag, drop, prolapse
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PYR-
 Definition
{fire} fever, burning
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PYRET-
 Definition
fever
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PYREX-
 Definition
be feverish
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RHE-
 Definition
{run} flow, secrete
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RHAG-
 Definition
{burst forth} flow profusely, hemorrage
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RHEX-
 Definition
rupture
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RHIN-
 Definition
nose
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SCOP-
 Definition
look at examine
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SEP-
 Definition
{be putrid} be infected
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TA-
 Definition
stretching
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TEL-
 Definition
end, compoletion
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TEN-, TENON(T)-
 Definition
tendon
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THERAP(EU)-
 Definition
treat medically, heals
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TOM-
 Definition
a cutting, slice, incision
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TON-
 Definition
{a stretching} (muscular) tone, tension
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-ectasia, -ectasis
 Definition
dilation, enlargement
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-ectomy
 Definition
sufical excision; removal of all or part of an organ
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-gen
 Definition
substance that produces (something)
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-genesis
 Definition
formation, orgin
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-genic
 Definition
causing, producing, caused
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-genous
 Definition
by, produced by or in
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-gram
 Definition
a record of the activity of an organ (often x-ray
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-graph
 Definition
an instrument for recording the activity of an organ
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-graphy
 Definition
(1) the recording of the activity of an organ (2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject)
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-lysis
 Definition
dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration
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-lytic
 Definition
pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration
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-pathy
 Definition
disease
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-ptosis
 Definition
dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)
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-rrhagia
 Definition
profuse discharge, hemorrhage
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-rrhea
 Definition
profuse discharge
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-rrhexis
 Definition
bursting (of tissues), rupture
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-scope
 Definition
an instrument for examining 
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-scopy
 Definition
examination
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-tome
 Definition
a surgical instrument for cutting
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-tomy
 Definition
surgical incision
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