Lesson 4 - Greek Verbs

Question 1

aut-

Answer 1

combining form: self

Question 2

crin-

Answer 2

combining form: [separate] secrete, secretion

Question 3

esthe(s)-

Answer 3

combining form: sensation, sensitivity, sense

Question 4

gen(e)-, -gen

Answer 4

combining form: come into being; produce

Question 5

gram-

Answer 5

combining form: [something written] a record

Question 6

graph-

Answer 6

combining form: write, record

Question 7

iatr-

Answer 7

combining form: healer, physician; treatment

Question 8

idi-

Answer 8

combining form: of one’s self

Question 9

kine-

Answer 9

combining form: move

Question 10

kines(i)-

Answer 10

combining form: movement, motion

Question 11

ly(s)-

Answer 11

combining form: destroy, break down

Question 12

myx-

Answer 12

combining form: mucus

Question 13

orth-

Answer 13

combining form: straight, erect; normal

Question 14

ot-

Answer 14

combining form: ear

Question 15

path-

Answer 15

combining form: [suffering] disease

Question 16

phil-

Answer 16

combining form: love; have an affinity for

Question 17

pt-

Answer 17

combining form: fall, sag, drop, prolapse

Question 18

pyr-

Answer 18

combining form: [fire] fever, burning

Question 19

pyret-

Answer 19

combining form: fever

Question 20

pyrex-

Answer 20

combining form: be feverish

Question 21

rhe-

Answer 21

combining form: [run] flow, secrete

Question 22

rhag-

Answer 22

combining form: [burst forth] flow profusely

Question 23

rhex-

Answer 23

combining form: hemorrhage rupture

Question 24

rhin-

Answer 24

combining form: nose

Question 25

scop-

Answer 25

combining form: look at, examine

Question 26

sep-

Answer 26

combining form: [be putrid] be infected

Question 27

ta-

Answer 27

combining form: stretching

Question 28

tel-

Answer 28

combining form: end, completion

Question 29

ten-, tenon(t)-

Answer 29

combining form: tendon

Question 30

therap(eu)-

Answer 30

combining form: treat medically, heal

Question 31

tom-

Answer 31

combining form: a cutting slice, incision

Question 32

ton-

Answer 32

combining form: [a stretching] (muscular) tone, tension

Question 33

-ectasia, -ectasis

Answer 33

combining suffix form: dilation, enlargement

Question 34

-ectomy

Answer 34

combining suffix form: surgical incision; removal of all (total excision or part (partial excision) of an organ

Question 35

-gen

Answer 35

combining suffix form: substance that produces (something)

Question 36

-genesis

Answer 36

combining suffix form: formation, origin

Question 37

-genic, -genous

Answer 37

combining suffix form: causing, producing, caused by, produced by or in

Question 38

-gram

Answer 38

combining suffix form: a record of the activity of an activity of an organ (often an x-ray)

Question 39

-graph

Answer 39

combining suffix form: an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Question 40

-graphy

Answer 40

combining suffix form: (1) the recording of the activity of an organ (usually by x-ray examination) (2) a descriptive treatise (on a subject)

Question 41

-lysis

Answer 41

combining suffix form: dissolution, reduction, decomp., disintegration

Question 42

-lytic

Answer 42

combining suffix form: pertaining to dissolution, reduction, decomp., disintegration

Question 43

-pathy

Answer 43

combining suffix form: disease

Question 44

-ptosis

Answer 44

combining suffix form: dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ/part)

Question 45

-rrhagia

Answer 45

combining suffix form: profuse discharge, hemorrhage

Question 46

-rrhea

Answer 46

combining suffix form: profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Question 47

-rrhexis

Answer 47

combining suffix form: bursting (of tissues), rupture

Question 48

-scope

Answer 48

combining suffix form: an instrument for examining

Question 49

-scopy

Answer 49

combining suffix form: examination

Question 50

-tome

Answer 50

combining suffix form: a surgical instrument for cutting

Question 51

-tomy

Answer 51

combining suffix form: surgical incision