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Elliott Blue Suffix
Suffix terms from blue cards
Question | Answer |
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-iac | pertaining to |
sacroiliac | pertaining to the sacrum and ileum |
-algia | pain |
neuralgia | nerve pain |
-ectomy | excision,surgical removal |
appendectomy | removal of the appendix |
-gram | record |
encephalogram | record of the electrical activity of the brain |
-ia | condition of |
dysphasia | condition of difficult/abnormal speech |
-ian | specialist |
technician | specialist in technical procedures |
-ism | condition,method,or process |
botulism | a condition(illness) caused by exposure to Clostridium botulinum |
-itis | inflammation |
nephritis | inflammation of the kidney |
-logy | study,practice |
dermatology | study and treatment of skin disorders |
-oid | like,resembling |
cardoid | resembling a heart |
-oma | tumor |
hematoma | blood tumor |
-pathy | disease |
osteopathy | bone disease |
scope- | instrument for viewing or examining |
microscope | instrument for viewing or examining small(not visible to nake eye) specimens or objects |
-tomy | process of cutting,incision |
laparotomy | incision into the abdomen |