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Digestive System 2
LOM Chapater 6 Sufixes
Question | Answer |
---|---|
-ectasis | stretching; dilation; widening |
-emesis | vomiting |
-lysis | destruction; breakdown; separation |
-pepsia | digestion |
-phagia | eating; swallowing |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-ptosis | droop; sag; protrude |
-ptysis | spitting |
-rrhage, rrhagia | bursting forth (of blood) |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-rrhea | flow, discharge |
-spasm | sudden, involuntary contraction of muscles |
-stasis | to stop; control |
-stenosis | tightening, stricture, narrowing |
-tresia | opening |