key verbs Flashcards
(47 cards)
1
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-algia
A
pain
2
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-audi, -audio
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hear, hearing
3
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bio-
A
to live
4
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cau-, caus-
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to burn
5
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-centesis
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puncture, perforate
6
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-clas, -clast, -clasis
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to smash, breakdown
7
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-duct-, -doch-
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canal or to draw
8
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-dynia
A
pain
9
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-ecta, ectasis
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to dilate
10
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-edem-
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to swell
11
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-ethes/ia, -phoro-
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to feel physically, to sense mentally
12
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-fiss-, -schiz-
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to split
13
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-flec, -flex-
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to bend
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flu-, flux-
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to flow
15
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-gen
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to produce, form, develop, or begin
16
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-iatr, -iatr/o, -therap/y
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to treat, cure
17
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-kine-, -kino-, kinesio-, -praxia
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to move
18
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-liga-, -desis
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to bind
19
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-o/log/y
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to study
20
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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
22
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olfact-, -osmia
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to smell
23
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-op-, opt-,-opto, -opsy
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vision, sight, or to see
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palpit-
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to flutter
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-par-, -part, -partus, -toci-
to labor
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-pep-
to digest
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-pexy, -pexia
to fix
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-phag-, -phago-
to eat
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-phas-
to speak, utter
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-phil-
to like, love, affinity for
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-phob-
to fear
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-phrag-
fence off, to wall off
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-plas-, -plasm, -plast/y
repair, to form, grow
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-pleg-
to be paralyzed
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-pnea
to breathe
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-phono-
voice or sound
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-poie-
to make
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-ptosis
to fall, to droop
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-o/rrhagia
to burst forth, pour
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-o/rrhaphy
to suture
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-o/rrhea
to flow, discharge
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-o/rrhexis
to rupture
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-therap/y
heal, treat, cure
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-tomy
to cut, in/cise
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-troph-, -troph/y
to nourish, to develop, formation process
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-volvo-
to turn, twist
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-vulvo-
to cover
