Med Term Verbs

-algia

pain

-audi, -audio

hear, hearing

bio-

to live

cau-, caus-

to burn

-centesis

puncture, perforate

pneumo/centesis

-clas, -clast, -clasis

to smash, break down

cyto/clasis

-duct, -doch-

canal or to draw

ab/duct/ion

-dynia

pain

thoraco/dynia

-ecta, ectasis

to dilate

bronchi/ectasis

-edem

to swell

lymph/edema

-ethesi/ia, -phoro-

to feel (physical), to sense (mental)

an/esthesia

-fiss, -schiz-

to split

schizo/phreni/ia

-flec, -flex-

to bend

re/flex

flu-, flux-

to flow

af/flu/ent

flux/ion

-gen

to produce

carcino/gen/esis

-iatr, -iatr/o, -therp/y

to treat, cure

ped/iatr/ ics -

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

to move

kinesi/ol/og/y

-liga, -desis

to bind

liga/ment

-o/log/y

to study-

-ly, -lysis

to break up, to dissolve

auto/lysis

-morph, -morpho

form, shape

a/morph/ous-

olfact, -osmia

to smell

an/osmia : without smell

olfacto/phobia: fear of smells

-op, -opt, -opto, -opsy

vision, sight, or to see

my/opnia

hyper/opia

bi/o/psy -

palpit-

to flutter

palpit/ation

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

to labor

dys/toc/ia : difficult birth

-pep-

to digest

dys/pep/sia =

-pexy, -pexia

to fix

nephr/o/pex/y

-phag, -phago-

to eat

phago,cytosis -

-phas-

to speak, utter

-phil-

to like, love, affinity for

hemo/phil/iac

-phob-

to fear

-phrag-

fence off, to wall off

dia/phragm

-plas, -plasm, -plasty

repair, to form, grow

neo/plasm

rhino/plasty

-pleg-

to be paralyzed

-pnea

to breathe

a/pnea

-phono-

voice or sound

a/phon/ia

-poie-

to make

hemat/o/poie/sis

-ptosis-

to fall, to droop

nephro/ptosis

-o/rrhagia

to burst forth, pour

men/o/rrhagia

-o/rrhaphy

to suture

nephr/o/rrhaph/y

-o/rrhea

to flow, discharge

leuk/o/rrhea

-o/rrhexis

to rupture

enter/o/rrhexis

-therap/y

heal, treat cure

-tomy

to cut, incise

append/ec/tom/y

-troph, -troph/y

to nourish, to develop, formation process

hyper/troph/y

-volvo-

to turn, twist

volv/ulus

-vulvo-

to cover

vulv/us