Suffixes - Chapter 4
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-algia | pain
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-asthenia | weakness
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-desis | binding
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-dynia | pain
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-esthesia | sensation
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-kinesia | movement
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-kinesis | movement
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-phobia | fear
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-phonia | sound
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-phoria | feeling, carrying
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-cele | hernia
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-cytosis | condition of cells
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-ectasia | expansion; dilation
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-ectasis | expanding; dilating
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-edema | swelling
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-ema | condition
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-emesis | vomiting
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-iasis | pathological condition or state; presence of
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-ism | condition, disease
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-itis (pl. -itides) | inflammation
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-lepsy | seizures
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-leptic | pertaining to seizures
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-lithiasis | presence of stones
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-mania | obsession; madness
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-megaly | enlargement
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-oma (pl. -omata) | tumor, neoplasm
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-opia | vision
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-opsia | vision
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-osis (pl. -oses) | condition, state, process
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-paresis | slight paralysis, feelings of numbness and tingling
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-pathy | disease
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-penia | deficiency, small, fewer
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-philia | attraction; affinity for
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-phrenia | of the mind
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-phthisis | wasting away
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-physis | growing
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-plegia | paralysis
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-plegic | pertaining to paralysis
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-ptosis | falling down; dropping
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-rrhea | to flow or discharge
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-rrhagia | excessive bleeding (amount and/or frequency)
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-rrhexis | rupture
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-trophic | pertaining to nutrition
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-trophy | nutrition
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-blast | immature, forming
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-cidal | destroying, killing
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-cide | destroying, killing
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-crine | secreting
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-malacia | softening
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-para | bearing
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-parous | producing, bearing
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-pepsia | digestion
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-phage, -phagia | eating, devouring
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-phagy | swallowing
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-phasia | speaking
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-phoresis | carrying
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-plasia | formation, development, growth
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-plastic | forming
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-pnea | breath
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-poiesis | production, formation
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-poietic | pertaining to production
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-poietin | substance that produces
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-para | bearing
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-porosis | lessening in density
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-rrhage | discharge heavily
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-rrhea | a flow, a flux
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-schisis | splitting
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-somnia | sleep
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-spasm | contraction
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-stalsis | contraction
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-stasis | stopping, constant
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-stenosis | narrowing
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-cyte | cell
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-derma | skin
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-emia | blood
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-emic | relating to blood
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-globin | protein
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-globulin | protein
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-oxia | oxygen
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-plakia | plaque
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-plasm | thing formed
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-uria | urine
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-ectomy | removal of part or all of an organ or body part
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-lysis | destruction of
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-lytic | pertaining to destruction
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-ostomy | opening to the outside of the body
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-pexy | fixation, usually done surgically
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-plasty | surgical repair
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-rrhaphy | surgical suturing
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-static, -stasis | maintaining a state
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-stomy | opening
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-tome | cutting instrument, segment
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-tomy | cutting operation
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-crit | separate
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-gen | producer
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-genesis | origin
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-genic | produced by
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-gram | a recording
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-graph | recording instrument
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-graphy | process of recording
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-meter | measuring device
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-metry | measurement
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-opsy | view of
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-pheresis | removal
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-phil | attraction, affinity for
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-scope | instrument (esp. one used for observing or measuring)
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-scopy | use of an instrument for observing
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-ad | toward
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-clasis | breaking
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-clast | breaking instrument
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-form | in the shape of
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-ic | pertaining to
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-ics | treatment, practice, body of knowledge
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-logist | one who studies
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-logy | study, practice
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-oid | like, resembling
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-phylaxis | protection, prevention
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-plegic | one who is paralyzed
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-stat | agent to maintain a state of equilibrium
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-tropia | turning
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-tropic | turning toward
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-tropy | attracted to target structures
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-version | turning
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