Medical Terminology: Week 3: Building Greek Vocabulary
ton
[a stretching] (muscular) tone, flawless
sep
[be putrid] be infected (combining form)
rhag
[burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage (combining form)
pyr
[fire] fever, burning (combining form)
poli
[gray] gray matter of the brain and spinal cord (combining form)
my(s)
[mouse] muscle (combining form)
myc(et)
[mushroom] fungus (combining form)
rhe
[run] flow, secrete (combining form)
crin
[separate] secrete, secretion
psych
[soul], mind (combining form)
path
[suffering] disease (combining form)
hist(i)
[web] tissue (combining form)
tom
a cutting, slice, incision (combining form)
gram
a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray) (compound suffix form)
tome
a surgical instrument for cutting (compound suffix form)
scope
an instrument for examining (compound suffix form)
graph
an instrument for recording the activity of an organ (compound suffix form)
pyrex
be feverish (combining form)
som(at), -soma
body (combining form)
myel
bone marrow, spinal cord (combining form)
rrhexis
bursting (of tissues), rupture (compound suffix form)
genous
by, produced by or in (compound suffix form)
chondr
cartilage (combining form)
genic
causing, producing, caused (compound suffix form)
gen(e), -gen
come into being, produce (combining form)
necr
corpse; dead (combining form)
ly(s)
destroy, break down (combining form)
ectasia, ectasis, ectomy
dilation, enlargement, surgical excision, removal of all or part of an organ (compound suffix form)
pathy
disease (compound suffix form)
lysis
dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration (compound suffix form)
ptosis
dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part) (compound suffix form)
ot
ear (combining form)
tel
end, completion (combining form)
is
equal, same, similar, alike (combining form)
pt
fall, sag, drop, prolapse (combining form)
pyret
fever (combining form)
olig
few, deficient (combining form)
in, inos
fiber, muscle (combining form)
dactyl
finger, toe (combining form)
onych
fingernail, toenail (combining form)
pod
foot (combining form)
genesis
formation, origin (compound suffix form)
chlor
green (combining form)
iatr
healer, physician, treatment (combining form)
icter
jaundice (combining form)
scop
look at, examine (combining form)
phil
love; have an affinity for (combining form)
poly
many, excessive (combining form)
mening, meninx
meningeal membrane, meninges (combining form)
kine
move (combining form)
kines(i)
movement, motion (combining form)
myx
mucus (combining form)
trachel
neck, cervix (combining form)
rhin
nose (combining form)
idi
of one's self (combining form)
por
passage, opening, duct, pore, cavity (combining form)
lytic
pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (compound suffix form)
rrhea
profuse discharge, excessive secretion (compound suffix form)
rrhagia
profuse discharge, hemorrhage (compound suffix form)
rhex
rupture (combining form)
aut
self (combining form)
esthe(s)
sensation, sensitivity, sense (combining form)
derm(at), derma
skin (combining form)
hypn
sleep (combining form)
gram
something written, a record (combining form)
arachn
spider, web; arachnoid membrane (combining form)
orth
straight, erect; normal (combining form)
sthen
strength (combining form)
ta
stretching (combining form)
narc
stupor, numbness (combining form)
gen
substance that produces (compound suffix form)
tomy
surgical incision (compound suffix form)
hidr(ot), idr
sweat (combining form)
ten-, tenon(t)
tendon (combining form)
graphy
the recording of an organ (usually by x-ray), descriptive treatise (on a subject) dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration (compound suffix form)
therap(eu)
treat medically, heal (combining form)
(h)elc
ulcer (combining form)
hydr
water, fluid (combining form)
graph
write, record (combining form)
xanth
yellow (combining form)