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Digestive
Digestive suffixes
Question | Answer |
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-ectasis, -ectasia | stretching, dilation, dilatation |
-emesis | vomiting |
-lysis | destruction, breakdown, separation |
-pepsia | digestion |
-phagia | eating, swallowing |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-ptosis | prolapse, fall, sag |
-ptysis | spitting |
-rrhage, -rrhagia | bursting forth |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-rrhea | flow, discharge |
-spasm | sudden, involuntary contraction of muscles |
-stasis | to stop / control |
-stenosis | tightening, structure, narrowing |
-tresia | opening |
-ase | enzyme |
-chezia | defecation, elimination of waste |
-iasis | abnormal condition |
-prandial | meal |