48 Key Verbs Flashcards

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-algia

A

pain

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-audi, -audio

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hear, hearing

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bio-

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to live

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cau-, caus-

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to burn

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-centesis

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puncture, perforate

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-clas-, -clast, clasis

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to smash, break

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-duct-, -doch-

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canal or to draw

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-dynia

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pain

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-ecta, ectasis

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to dialate

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-edem-

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to swell

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11
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-ethes/ia

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to feel (physical)

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12
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-phoro-

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to sense (mental)

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-fiss-, -schiz-

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to split

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-flec, -flex-

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to bend

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flu-, flux-

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to flow

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-gen

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to produce, form, develop, or begin

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-iatr-, -iart/o-, therap/y

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to treat, cure

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-kine-, -kino-, kinesio-, -praxia

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to move

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-liga-, -desis

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to bind

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-o/log/y

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to study

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-ly-, -lysis

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to break up, to dissolve

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-morph-, -morpho

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form, shape

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olfact-, -osmia

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to smell

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-op-, opt-, opto, -opsy

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vision, sight, or to see

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palpit-

A

to flutter

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-par-, -part, -partus-, -toci-

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to labor

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-pep-

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to digest

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-pexy

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to fix

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-phag-, -phago-

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to eat

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-phas-

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to speak, utter

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-phil-

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to like, love, affinity for

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-phob-

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to fear

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-phrag-

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fence off, to wall off

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-plas-, -plasm, -plast/y

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repair, to form, grow

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-pleg-

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to be paralyzed

36
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-phono-

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voice or sound

37
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-pnea

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to breathe

38
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-poie-

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to make

39
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-ptosis

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to fall, to droop

40
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-o/rrhagia

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to burst forth, pour

41
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-o/rrhaphy

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to suture

42
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-o/rrhea

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to flow, discharge

43
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-o/rrhexis

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to rupture

44
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-therap/y

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heal, treat, cure

45
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-tomy

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to cut, in/cise

46
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-troph-, -troph/y

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to nourish, to develop, formation process

47
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-volvo-

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to turn, twist

48
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-vulvo-

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to cover