Ch 2: Key Verbs Flashcards
These verbs may be attached to stem word parts to form additional words. Prefixes can be added to form new variations of the words.
-algia
pain
-audi, -audio
hear, hearing
bio-
to live
cau-, caus-
to burn
-centesis
punture, perforate
-clas-, -clast, -clasis
to smash, breakdown
-duct-, -doch-
canal or to draw
-dynia
pain
-ecta, ectasis
to dilate
-edem-
to swell
-ethes/ia,
phoro-
to feel (physical)
to sense(mental)
-fiss-, -schiz-
to split
-flec-, -flex-
to bend
flu-,flux-
to flow
-gen
to produce, form, develop, or begin
-iatr-, -iatr/o, therap/y
to treat, cure
-kine-, -kino-, kinesio-, -praxia
to move
-liga, -desis
to bind
-o/log/y
to study
-ly, -lysis
to break up, to dissolve
-morph-, -morpho
form, shape
olfact-, -osmia
to smell
-op-, opt-, -opto, -opsy
vision, sight, or to see
palpit-
to flutter
-par-, -part, -patrus-, -toci-
to labor
-pep-
to digest
-pexy
to fix
-phag-,-phago-
to eat
-phas-
to speak, utter
-phil-
to like, love, affinity for
-phob-
to fear
-phrag-
fence off, to wall off
-plas-, -plasm, -plast/y
repair, to form, grow
-pleg-
to be paralyzed
-pnea
to breathe
-phono-
voice or sound
-poie-
to make
-ptosis
to fall, to droop
-o/rrhagia
to burst forth, pour
-o/rrhaphy
to suture
-o/rrhea
to flow, discharge
-o/rrhexis
to rupture
-therap/y
heal, treat, cure
-tomy
to cute, in/cise
-troph-, -troph/y
to nourish, to develop, formation process
-volvo-
to turn, twist
-vulvo-
to cover