Terminology- Suffixes & Prefixes
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| -al | pertaining to
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| -lysis | separation; destruction; loosening
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| -algia | pain
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| -megaly | enlargement
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| -arche | beginning
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| -oid | resembling
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| -ary | pertaining to
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| -oma | tumour
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| -cele | hernia, swelling
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| -osis | abnormal condition
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| -centesis | surgical puncture
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| -para | to bear (offspring)
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| -ception | conceiving
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| -pathy | disease
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| -cide | killing
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| -pexy | fixation (of an organ)
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| -cision | a cutting
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| -plasty | surgical repair
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| -cleisis | closure
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| -poiesis | formation, production
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| -continence | to hold back
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| -potence | power
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| -cyesis | pregnancy
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| -ptosis | prolapse, downward displacement
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| -ectasis | dilation, expansion
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| -rrhagia | bursting forth (of)
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| -ectomy | excision, removal
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| -rrhage | bursting forth (of)
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| -emia | blood condition
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| -rrhaphy | suture
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| -gen | forming, producing, origin
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| -rrhea | discharge, flow
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| -genesis | forming, producing, origin
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| -rrhexis | rupture
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| -grade | to go
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| -salpinx | tube (fallopian or eustachian)
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| -gram | record, writing
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| -schisis | a splitting
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| -gravida | pregnant woman
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| -scope | instrument for examining
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| -ia | condition
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| -scopy | visual examination
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| -iasis | abnormal condition
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| -spadias | slit, fissure
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| -ic | pertaining to
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| -stenosis | narrowing, stricture
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| -ician | specialist
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| -therapy | treatment
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| -icterus | jaundice
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| -tocia | childbirth, labour
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| -ism | condition
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| -tomy | incision
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| -itis | inflammation
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| -tripsy | crushing
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| -ization | process (of)
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| -uria | urine
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| -lith | stone
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| -version | turning
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| -logist | specialist in the study of
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| a- | without, not
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| an- | without, not
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| im- | not
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| ante- | before, in front of
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| in- | in, not
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| brachy- | short
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| multi- | many, much
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| circum- | around
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| neo- | new
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| contra- | against, opposite
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| nulli- | none
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| dia- | through, across
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| poly- | many, much
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| dys- | bad; painful; difficult
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| post- | after, behind
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| ec- | out, out from
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| pre- | before, in front of
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| ecto- | outside, outward
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| primi- | first
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| endo- | in, within
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| pseudo- | false, fake
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| epi- | above, upon
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| retro- | backward, behind
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| hypo- | under, below, deficient
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| tri- | three
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