Phlebotomy medical terms Suffixes (end of word)
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| -able | capable of, able to
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| -ac | pertaining to
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| -ago | attack, diseased state or condition
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| -agra | excessive pain, seizure, attack of severe pain
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| -aise | comfort, ease
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| -al | pertaining to
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| -algesic | painful
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| -ar | pertaining to
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| -arche | beginning
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| -ary | pertaining to
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| -ase | enzyme
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| -blast | embryonic, immature
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| -cele | tumor, cyst, hernia
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| -centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid
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| -cidal | pertaining to death
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| -cide | causing death
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| -clasis, -clast | break
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| -clysis | irrigation, washing
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| -crasisa | a mixture or blending
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| -crit | separate
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| -cytic | pertaining to a cell
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| -cytosis | condition of cells
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| -dema | swelling (fluid)
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| -desis | bind, tie together, surgical fixation of bone or joint
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| -duct | opening
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| -dynia | pain
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| -eal | pertaining to
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| -ectasia, -ectasis | stretching, dilation, enlargement
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| -ectomy | surgical removal, cutting out, excision
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| -emesis | vomiting
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| -emia | blood, blood condition
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| -esis | state or abnormal condition
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| -esthesia | sensation or felling
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| -exia, -exis | condition
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| -ferent | carrying
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| -form | form, figure, shape
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| -fuge | to drive away
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| -gene | production, origin, formation
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| -genesis, [genic | producing, forming
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| -genous | producing
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| -grade | go
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| -gram | tracing, picture, record
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| -graph | instrument for recording, picture
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| -graphy | process of recording a picture or record
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| -ia | state or condition
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| -iac | pertaining to
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| -iasis | condition, pathologic state, abnormal condition
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| -ible | able to be, capable of being
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| -ic | pertaining to
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| -ific | making, producing
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| -iform | shaped or formed like, resembling
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| -igo | attack, diseased condition
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| -ile | capable of (being), able to, pertaining to
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| -ism | state of, condition
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| -istis, -itis | inflammation
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| -ium | structure, tissue
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| -kinesis | motion
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| -lith | stone, calculus
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| -lithiasis | presence of stones
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| -lysis | setting free, break down, separation, destruction
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| -lyst | agent that causes lysis or loosening
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| -lytic | reduce, destroy
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| -mania | obsessive, preoccupation
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| -magaly | large, great, extreme, enlargement
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| -meter | measure
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| -necrosis | death of tissue
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| -oid | like, resembling
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| -ologist | specialist
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| -ology | the science or study of
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| -oma | tumor, neoplasm
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| -osis | disease, an abnormal condition
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| -ostomosis, -ostomy | surgically creating a mouth or opening
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| -otomy | cutting, surgical incision
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| -ous | pertaining to
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| -paresis | partial or incomplete paralysis
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| -pathic | pertaining to, affected by disease
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| -penia | lack, deficiency, too few
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| -pexy | surgical fixtation, to put in place
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| -phage | one that eats, a cell that destroys
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| -phagia | eating, swelling
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| -phasia | speak or speech
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| -pheresis | removal
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| -phoresis | carrying, transmission
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| -phoria | to bear, carry, feeling, mental state
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| -phylactic | protective, preventive
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| -phylaxis | protection
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| -physis | to grow
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| -plasia | formaion, development, growth
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| -plasm | formative material of cells
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| -plasty | surgical repair
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| -plegia | stroke, paralysis, palsy
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| -plegic | paralysis, one affected with paralysis
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| -pnea | breathing
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| -poiesis | formation
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| -porosis | passage, porous condition
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| -praxia | action, condition concerning the performance of movements
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| -ptosis | drooping, sagging, prolapse, dropping down
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| -ptsis | spitting
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| -rrhage, -rrhagia | bursting forth
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| -rrhapy | suturing, stitching
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| -rrhea | flow, discharge
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| -rrhexis | rupture
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| -sarcoma | tumor, cancer
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| -scope | instrument for visual examination
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| -scopic | pertaining to visual examination
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| -scopy | see, visual examination
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| -stalsis | contraction
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| -statis | stopping, controlling
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| -stenosis | narrowing, tightening, stricture of a duct or canal
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| -stomosis, stomy | furnish with a mouth or outlet, new opening
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| -tic | pertaining to
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| -tome | instrument to cut
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| -tomy | cutting, incision
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| -tripsy | crushing stone
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| -tropic | having an affinity for, turning toward
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| -uresis | urination
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| -uria | urination, urine
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| -us | thing
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| -version | to turn
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