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Terminology chpt 1
Suffixes
Term | Definition |
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-algia, -dynia | Pain |
-centesis | Surgical Puncture to remove fluid |
-ectomy | Excision, Removal, Resection |
-emesis | Vomiting |
-emia | Blood Condition |
-genic | Produced ny, In |
-gram | Record |
-graph | Instrument for recording |
-graphy | Process of recording |
-ia | condition |
-ion | Process |
-itis | Inflammation |
-ium | Structure, Tissue |
-lapse | To slide, fall, or sag |
-lysis | Breakdown, Destruction |
-malacia | Softening |
-megaly | Enlargement |
-mission | To send |
-oid | Resembling |
-oma | Tumor, Mass |
-osis | Abnormal Condition |
-pathy | Disease Condition |
-penia | Deficiency, Decrease |
-pexy | Surgical fixation, To put in place |
-phagia | Eat, Swallow |
-phoria | To bear, carry, feeling |
-plasty | Surgical Repair |
-rrhage, -rrhagia | Bursting Forth |
-rrhaphy | Suture |
-rrhea | Flow, Discharge |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-sclerosis | Hardening |
-scope | Instrument for visual examination |
-scopy | process of visual examination |
-stomy | New opening from the _____ to the outside of the body |
-therapy | treatment |
-tomy | Incision, Process of cutting |
-um, -us | Structure, thing, tissue |
-ac, -al,-an,-ar,-ary | Pertaining to |
-eal, -ic, -ine, -ous, -tic | pertaining to |