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Chapter 4 assignment-
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| -algia | pain |
| -asthenia | weakness |
| -desi | binding |
| -dynia | pain |
| -esthesia | sensation |
| -kinesia | movement |
| -kinesis | movement |
| -phobia | fear |
| -phonia | sound |
| -phoria | feeling, carrying |
| -cele | hernia |
| -cytosis | condition of cells |
| -ectasia | expansion; dilation |
| -ectasis | expanding; dilating |
| -edema | swelling |
| -ema | condition |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -iass | pathological condition or state; presence of |
| -ism | condition, disease |
| -itis (pl.-tides) | inflammation |
| -lepsy | seizures |
| -leptic | pertaining to seizures pertaining to seizures |
| -lithiasis | presence of stones |
| -mania | obsession; madness |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -oma (pl.-omata | tumor, neoplasm |
| -opia | vision |
| -opsia | vision |
| -osis (pl. -(pl.oses) | condition, state, process |
| -paresis | slight paralysis, feelings of numbness and tingling |
| -pathy | disease |
| -penia | deficiency, small, fewer |
| -philia | attraction ; affinity for |
| -phrenia | of the mind |
| -phthisis | wasting away |
| physis | growing |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -plegic | pertaining to paralysis |
| -ptosis | falling down; drooping |
| _rrhea | to flow or discharge |
| -rrhagia | excessive bleeding (amount and / or frequency |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -trophic | pertaining to nutrition |
| -trophy | nutrition |
| -blast | immature, forming |
| -cidal | destroying, killing |
| -crine | secreting |
| -malacia | softening |
| -para | bearing |
| -parous | producing, bearing |
| -pepsia | digestion |
| -phage, -phagia | eating, devouring |
| -phagy | swallowing |
| -phasia | speaking |
| -phoresis | carrying |
| -plasia | formation, development, growth |
| -plastic | forming |
| -pnea | breath |
| -poiesis | production, formation |
| -poiectic | pertaining to production |
| -para | bearing |
| -porosis | lessening in density |
| -rrhage | discharge heavily |
| -schisis | splitting |
| -somnia | sleep |
| -spasm | contraction |
| -stalss | contraction |
| -stasis | stopping, constant |
| -stenosis | narrowing |
| -cyte | cell |
| -derma | skin |
| -emia | blood |
| -emic | relating to blood |
| -globin | protein |
| -globulin | protein |
| -oxia | oxygen |
| -plakia | plaque |
| -plasm | thing formed |
| -uria | urine |
| -ectomy | removal of part or all of an organ or body part |
| -lysis | destruction of |
| -lytic | pertaining to destruction |
| -ostomy | opening to the outside of the body |
| -pexy | fixation, usually done surgically |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -rrhapry | surgical suturing |
| -static, -stasis | maintaining a state |
| -stomy | opening |
| -tome | cutting instrument, segment |
| -tomy | cutting operation |
| -crit | separate |
| -gen | producer |
| -genesis | origin |
| -genic | produced by |
| -gram | a recording |
| -graph | recording instrument |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -meter | measuring device |
| -metry | measurement |
| -opsy | view of |
| -pheresis | removal |
| -phil | attraction, affinity for |
| -scope | instrument (esp. on used for observing or measuring |
| -scopy | use of an instrument for observing |
| -ad | toward |
| -clasis | breaking |
| -clast | breaking instrument |
| -form | in the shape of |
| -ic | pertaining to |
| -ics | treatment, practice, body of language |
| -logist | one who studies |
| -logy | study, practice |
| -oid | like, resembling |
| -phylasis | protection, prevention |
| -plegic | one who is paralyzed |
| -stat | agent to maintain a state of equilibrium |
| -tropia | turning |
| -tropic | turning upward |
| -tropy | attracted to target structures |
| -versions | turning |