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Chapter 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| -algia | pain |
| -asthenia | weakness |
| -desis | 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 |
| -lasis | pathological condition or state; presence of |
| -ism | condition, disease |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -lepsy | seizures |
| -leptic | pertaining to seizures |
| -lithiasis | presence of stones |
| -mania | obsession; madness |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -oma | tumor, neoplasm |
| -opia | vision |
| -opsia | vision |
| -osis | 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 |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -thropic | pertaining to nutrition |
| -trophy | nutrition |
| -blast | immature, forming |
| -cidal | destroying, killing |
| -cide | 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 |
| -poietic | pertaining to production |
| -poietin | substance that produces |
| -para | bearing |
| -porosis | lessening in density |
| -rrhage | discharging heavily |
| -rrhea | a flowing, a flux |
| -schisis | splitting |
| -somnia | sleep |
| -spasm | contraction |
| -stalsis | 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 |
| -rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
| -static, -stasis | maintain a state |
| -stomy | opening |
| -tome | cutting instrument, segment |
| -tomy | cutting operation |
| -crit | separate |
| -gen | producer |
| -genesis | origin |
| -genic | produced by |
| -ad | toward |
| -clasis | breaking |
| -clast | breaking instrument |
| -form | in the shape of |
| -ic | pertaining to |
| -ics | treatment, practice, body of knowledge |
| -logist | one who studies |
| -logy | study, practice |
| -oid | like, resembling |
| -phylaxis | protection, prevention |
| -plegic | one who is paralyzed |
| -stat | agent to maintain a state of equilibrium |
| -tropia | turning |
| -tropic | turning toward |
| -tropy | attracted to target structures |
| -version | turning |
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