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.
1
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-algia
A
pain
2
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-audi, -audio
A
hear, hearing
3
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bio-
A
to live
4
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cau-, caus-
A
to burn
5
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-centesis
A
punture, perforate
6
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-clas-, -clast, -clasis
A
to smash, breakdown
7
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-duct-, -doch-
A
canal or to draw
8
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-dynia
A
pain
9
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-ecta, ectasis
A
to dilate
10
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-edem-
A
to swell
11
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-ethes/ia,
phoro-
A
to feel (physical)
to sense(mental)
12
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-fiss-, -schiz-
A
to split
13
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-flec-, -flex-
A
to bend
14
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flu-,flux-
A
to flow
15
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-gen
A
to produce, form, develop, or begin
16
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-iatr-, -iatr/o, therap/y
A
to treat, cure
17
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-kine-, -kino-, kinesio-, -praxia
A
to move
18
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-liga, -desis
A
to bind
19
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-o/log/y
A
to study
20
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-ly, -lysis
A
to break up, to dissolve
21
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-morph-, -morpho
A
form, shape
22
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olfact-, -osmia
A
to smell
23
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-op-, opt-, -opto, -opsy
A
vision, sight, or to see
24
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palpit-
A
to flutter
25
-par-, -part, -patrus-, -toci-
to labor
26
-pep-
to digest
27
-pexy
to fix
28
-phag-,-phago-
to eat
29
-phas-
to speak, utter
30
-phil-
to like, love, affinity for
31
-phob-
to fear
32
-phrag-
fence off, to wall off
33
-plas-, -plasm, -plast/y
repair, to form, grow
34
-pleg-
to be paralyzed
35
-pnea
to breathe
36
-phono-
voice or sound
37
-poie-
to make
38
-ptosis
to fall, to droop
39
-o/rrhagia
to burst forth, pour
40
-o/rrhaphy
to suture
41
-o/rrhea
to flow, discharge
42
-o/rrhexis
to rupture
43
-therap/y
heal, treat, cure
44
-tomy
to cute, in/cise
45
-troph-, -troph/y
to nourish, to develop, formation process
46
-volvo-
to turn, twist
47
-vulvo-
to cover
