Terminology- Suffixes/Prefixes
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| -acusia | hearing
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| -acusis | hearing
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| -al | pertaining to
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| -algesia | pain
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| -algia | pain
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| -ary | pertaining to
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| -asthenia | weakness, debility
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| -cele | hernia, swelling
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| -ceps | head
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| -cusia | hearing
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| -cusis | hearing
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| -dynia | pain
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| -ectomy | excision, removal
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| -esthesia | feeling
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| -ferent | to carry
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| -glia | glue; neurological tissue
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| -graphy | process of recording
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| -ia | condition
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| -ic | pertaining to
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| -ion | the act of
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| -ism | condition
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| -itis | inflammation
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| -kinesia | movement
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| -lalia | speech, babble
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| -lepsy | seizure
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| -logist | specialist in the study of
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| -logy | study of
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| -lucent | to shine; clear
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| -lysis | separation; destruction; loosening
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| -malacia | softening
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| -mania | state of mental disorder, frenzy
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| -meter | instrument for measuring
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| -metry | act of measuring
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| -oid | resembling
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| -oma | tumour
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| -opague | obscure
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| -opia | vision
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| -opsia | vision
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| -osis | abnormal condition; increase
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| -ous | pertaining to
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| -paresis | partial paralysis
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| -pathy | disease
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| -pexy | fixation
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| -phasia | speech
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| -phobia | fear
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| -phoria | feeling
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| -plegia | paralysis
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| -plexy | stroke
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| -ptosis | prolapse, downward displacement
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| -rrhagia | bursting forth of
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| -rrhaphy | suture
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| -rrhea | discharge, flow
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| -rrhexis | rupture
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| -scope | instrument for examining
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| -scopy | visual examination
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| -social | society
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| -spasm | involuntary contraction, twitching
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| -stomy | forming an opening
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| -taxia | order, coordination
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| -thymia | mind; emotion
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| -tome | instrument to cut
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| -tic | pertaining to
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| -tomy | incision
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| -tropia | turning
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| a- | without, not
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| an- | without, not
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| af- | toward
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| agora- | marketplace
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| bi- | two
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| brady- | slow
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| cata- | down
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| contra- | against, opposite
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| de- | cessation
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| di- | double
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| dipl- | double
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| dys- | bad; painful; difficult
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| ec- | out; out from
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| ef- | away from
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| eso- | inward
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| exo- | outside, outward
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| hemi- | one half
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| hetero- | different
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| hyper- | excessive, above normal
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| hypo- | under, below, deficient
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| intra- | in, within
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| oxy- | quick, sharp
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| pachy- | thick
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| para- | near, beside; beyond
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| pseudo- | false
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| quadri- | four
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| semi- | one half
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| syn- | union, together, joined
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| uni- | one
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