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Chapner CH6 terms
Suffixes
Question | Answer |
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-ectasis, -ectasia | stretching, dilation, dilatation, widening |
-emesis | vomiting |
-lysis | destruction, breakdown, separation |
-pepsia | digestion |
-phagia | eating, swallowing |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-ptosis | drooping; sagging; protruding |
-ptysis | spitting |
-rrhage, -rrhagia | bursting forth (of blood) |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-rrhea | flow, discharge |
-spasm | involuntary contractions of the muscles |
-stasis | stopping;controlling |
-stenosis | tightening, stricture, narrowing |
-tresia | opening |