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Medical Terminology
Chapter 1 -Suffixes
Suffix | Medical Meaning |
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-ac | pertaining to |
-graphy | process of recording |
-al | pertaining to |
-ia | condition; state; thing |
-ar | pertaining to |
-iatry | medical treatment |
-ary | pertaining to |
-ic | pertaining to |
-ation | a process; being or having |
-ics | knowledge; practice |
-ectomy | surgical removal |
-ine | pertaining to |
-gram | a record or picture |
-ion | action; condition |
-ism | process; disease from a specific cause |
-ist | one who specializes in |
-ous | pertaining to |
-itis | inflammation of; infection of |
-pathy | disease |
-ive | pertaining to |
-scope | instrument used to examine |
-logy | the study of |
-scopy | process of using and instrument to examine |
-megaly | enlargement |
-stomy | surgically created opening |
-metry | process of measuring |
-therapy | treatment |
-oma | tumor; mass |
-tomy | process of cutting or making an incision. |