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Med Term's Suffixes
Medical terminology suffixes 1-58
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -ac | pertaining to |
| -al | relating to/pertaining to |
| -algia | pain- malalgia or muscle pain |
| -ar | pertaining to |
| -ary | pertaining to |
| -cele | hernia- gastrocele (hernia of stomach) |
| -centesis | tap/puncture- thoracentesis (puncturing of thoratic) |
| -clasis | breakdown- osteoclasis |
| -desis | binding/fusion- arthrodesis the fusion of joint |
| -dynia | pain/swelling- urodynia (painful urination) |
| -ectasis | dialation/expansion- bronchiectasis (lungs) |
| -ectomy | removal- hysterectomy the removal of female organs |
| -emia | blood- anemia without blood |
| -gen | producing- carcinogen act of producing cancer |
| -gram | recording of data- Encephalogram ECG |
| -graph | insturment writes- cardiograph Mechine recors heart |
| -graphy | act of recording- radiography Xray |
| -ia | abnormal condition- anesthesia, without normal awareness |
| -iac | person has a condition- hemophiliac or hypochondriac |
| -iasis | abnormal condition- cholelithiasis, produciton of gallstones |
| -ic | pertaining to or relating to- anabolic |
| -ical | pertaining to- physical, surgical |
| -icle | small, little- particle |
| -is | forms the noun from the root- cutis, dermis (skin) |
| -ism | condition or state of being- hyperthroidism; autism, alcholholism |
| -ist | one who specialises- radiologist, cardiologist |
| -itis | inflammation- bronchitis, dermitis |
| -lyis | destruction of, decompostion, free from- enterolysis the intestines, amyloysis |
| -malacia | softening- osteomalacia bone |
| -megaly | enlargement of a body part, splenomegaly |
| -meter | insturment for measure-therometer |
| -metry | measurement of- audiometry hearing |
| -oid | form, shape, resemblance- deltoid, hyoid |
| -oma | tumor- hemotoma, adenoma begining of tumor in tissue |
| -osis | abnormal condition- dermatoisis or skin |
| -ous | pertaining to- venous or vein |
| -pathy | disease- nephropathy or kidneys |
| -penia | lack, deficiency, decrease- osteopenia, erythrapenia decrease in red blood cells, lipopenia |
| -pexy | fixation, usually surgical- gastropexy fixation of stomach to adominal wall, hepatopexy |
| -phagia | eating, ingestion, devouring- disphagia |
| -phasia | speaking, speech- aphasia |
| -phobia | exaggerated fear- arachnophobia fear of spiders |
| -plasty | surgical repair or reshaping- rhinoplasty |
| -pledgia | paralysis- quadripledgia |
| -ptosis | falling or dropping- blepharoptosis- drooping of eyelid. |
| -rrhage | excessive flow- hemarrhage |
| -rrhapy | suturing or stitching- arteriorrhapy stiching of arteries. |
| -rrhea | profuse, flow, discharge- diarrhea, rhinorrhea |
| -rrhexis | rupture of a specfic body part- enterorrhexis the rupture of the intestines. |
| -sclerois | dryness, hardness- artherosclerosis |
| -scope | instrument to use for view- endoscope |
| -scopy | exmination of or act of using- endoscopy |
| -spasm | involuntary sudden movement or muscle contraction that occurs as a result of an irritant or trauma- bronchospasm |
| -stomy | forming an outlet- colostomy |
| -tic | pertaining to- austistic |
| -tomy | incision, cut- tracheotomy |
| -tripsy | crushing of- Choleithtripsy is the crushing of gallstones. |
| -y | Condition, process neuropathy (nervous system disease) |
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