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Question | Answer |
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-ase | enzyme |
-cele | hernia |
-chezia | defecation |
-iasis | abnormal condition |
-phagia | eating |
-prandial | meal |
-agon | assemble |
-algesia | pain sensation |
-algia | pain |
-ar | pertaining to |
-arche | beginning |
-ary | pertaining to |
-asthenia | weakness |
-blast | embryonic |
-capnia | carbon dioxide |
-centesis | puncture to remove (drain) |
-clast, -clasia, -clasis | break |
-coccus | spherical bacterium |
-cyesis | pregnancy |
-desis | fusion |
-dilation | widening, expanding |
-drome | run |
dynia | pain |
-eal | pertaining to |
-ectasis | stretching |
-ectomy | removal |
-edema | swelling |
-emia | blood |
-esthesis | feeling |
-gram | record |
-graph | recording instrument |
-graphy | recording process |
-gravida | pregnancy |
-ia | condition |
-iatrist | physician specialist |
-iatry | medical treatment |
-ical | pertaining to |
-ictal | pertaining to |
-in | a substance |
-ine | a substance |
-itis | inflammation |
-listhesis | slipping |
-lithiasis | condition of stones |
-lysis | separation |
-malacia | softening |
-megaly | enlargement |
-meta | change |
-meter | measurement; instrument that measures |
-metry | measurement of |
-oid | resembling |
-oma | tumor |
-omia | smell |
-one | hormone |
-opia | vision |
-opsy | view of |
-orrhexis | rupture |
-osis | condition |
-oxia | oxygen |
-para | woman who has given birth |
-paresis | incomplete paralysis |
-parous | to bear |
-penia | deficient |
-pexy | fixation |
-phagia | eating |
-phonia | sound |
-phylaxis | protection |
-physis | to grow |
-plasty | repair |
-plegia | paralysis |
-pnea | breathing |
-poiesis | production |
-poly | many |
-porosis | passage |
-retro | behind |
-rrhagia | bursting of blood |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-rrhea | discharge |
-schisis | split |
-sclerosis | hardening |
-scopy | to examine |
-spasm | contraction of muscle |
-steat/o | fat |
-stenosis | blockage, narrowing |
-stomy | opening |
-thorax | chest |
-tocia | labor |
-tom/o | to cut |
-tome | an instrument that cuts |
-tomy | cutting, incision |
-tripsy | crush |
-tropia | to turn |
-tropin | to act upon |
-uria | urine |
-version | turning |