Commonly Used Suffixes in Medical Terminology (Booth, 5e; Appendix I)
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| -ad | to, toward
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| -aesthesia, -esthesia | sensation
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| -al | characterized by
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| -algia | pain
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| -ase | enzyme
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| -asthenia | weakness
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| -cele | swelling, tumor
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| -centesis | puncture, tapping
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| -cidal | killing
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| -cide | causing death
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| -cise | cut
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| -coele | cavity
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| -cyst | bladder, bag
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| -cyte | cell, cellular
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| -dynia | pain
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| -ectomy | cutting out, surgical removal
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| -emesis | vomiting
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| -emia | blood
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| -esthesia | sensation
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| -form | shape
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| -fuge | driving away
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| -gene, -genic, -genetic, -genesis, -geneous | arising from, origin, formation
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| -gram | recorded information
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| -graph | instrument for recording
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| -graphy | the process of recording
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| -ia | condition
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| -iasis | condition of
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| -ic, -ical | pertaining to
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| -ism | condition, process, theory
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| -itis | inflammation of
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| -ium | membrane
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| -ize | to cause to be, to become, to treat by special method
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| -kineses, kinetic | motion
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| -lepsis. -lepsy | seizure, convulsion
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| -lith | stone
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| -logy | science of, study of
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| -lysis | setting free, disintegration, decomposition
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| -malacia | abnormal softening
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| -mania | insanity, abnormal desire
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| -meter | measue
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| -metry | process of measuring
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| -odynia | pain
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| -oid | resembling
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| -ole | small, little
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| -oma | tumor
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| -opia | vision
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| -opsy | view
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| -osis | disease, condition
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| -ostomy | to make a mouth, opening
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| -otomy | incision, surgical cutting
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| -ous | having
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| -pathy | disease, suffering
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| -penia | too few, lack, decreased
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| -pexy | surgical fixation
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| -phagia, -phage | eating, consuming, swallowing
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| -phobia | fear, abnormal fear
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| -phylaxis | protection
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| -plasia | formation or developement
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| -plastic | molded
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| -plasty | operation to reconstruct, surgical repair
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| -plegia | paralysis
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| -pnea | breathing
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| -rrhage, -rrhagia | abnormal or excessive discharge, hemorrhage, flow
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| -rrhaphy | suture of
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| -rrhea | flow, discharge
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| -sclerosis | hardening
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| -scope | instrument used to examine
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| -scopy | examining
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| -sepsis | poisoning, infection
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| -spasm | cramp or twitching
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| stasis | stoppage
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| -stomy | opening
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| -therapy | treatment
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| -thermy | heat
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| -tome | cutting instrument
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| -tomy | incision, section
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| -tripsy | surgical crushing
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| -trophy | turning, tendency
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| -tropy | turning, tendency
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| -uria | urine
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