ch.3 Combining forms and Suffixes
CF: cyt/o S: -cyte
cell
CF: gen/o S: -genic, -genesis
origin, produced by or in
CF: gram/o S: -gram,-graph,-graphy
to record, process of recording
CF: kinesi/o S: -kinesia, -kinesis
movement, motion
CF: leps/o S: -lepsy
seizure
CF: lys/o S: -lysin,-lysis,-lytic
destruction, dissolving
CF: malac/o S: -malcia
soft, softening
CF: megal/o S: -megaly
large, enlarged
CF: metr/o S: -meter, -metry
measure, measuring
CF: path/o S:-pathy
disease
CF: phag/o S: -phagia,-phagic,-phagy
eat, ingest, eating, swallowing
CF: phas/o S: -phasia
speech
CF:pleg/o S: -plegia
paralysis
CF: scler/o S: -sclerosis
hard, hardening
CF: scop/o S: -scope, -scopy
to examine, to view
CF: troph/o S: -trophic, -trophy
nutrition