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medical term 4
abbreviation
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| -algia | pain |
| -asthenia | weekness |
| -desis | binding |
| -dynia | pain |
| -esthesia | sensation |
| -kinesia | movement |
| -kinesis | movement |
| -phobia | fear |
| -phonia | sound |
| -phoria | feeling, carrying |
| -cele | hernia |
| -cytosis | conditions of sells |
| -ectasia | expansion; dialation |
| -ectasis | expanding; dialating |
| -edema | swelling |
| -ema | condition |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -iasis | pathological condition or state; presense of |
| -ism | condition, disease |
| -it is (pl. -itides) | inflamation |
| -lepsy | seizures |
| -leptic | pretending to seizures |
| -lithiasis | precesnse of stones |
| -mania | obsession; madness |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -oma (pl.-omata) | tumor, neoplasm |
| -opia | vision |
| -opsia | vision |
| -osis (pl.-oses) | condition, state, process |
| -paresis | slight paralysis feeling of numbness and tingling |
| -pathy | disease |
| -penia | deficiency, small fewer |
| -philia | attraction; affinity for |
| -phernia | of the mind |
| -phthisis | wasting away |
| -physis | growing |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -plegic | pretending to paralysis |
| -ptosis | falling down; dropping |
| -rrhea | to flow or discharge |
| -rrhagia | excessive bleeding ( amount or frequency ) |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -trophic | pertaining to nutrition |
| - trophy | nutrition |
| -blast | immature, forming |
| -cidal | destroying, killing |
| -cide | destroying, killing |
| -crine | secrecting |
| -malacia | softening |
| -para | bearing |
| -parous | producing, bearing |
| -pepsia | digestion |
| -phang, -phangia | eating, devouring |
| -phagy | swallowing |
| -phasia | speaking |
| -phoresis | carrying |
| -plasia | formation, development, growth |
| -plastic | forming |
| -pnea | breath |
| -poiesis | production and formation |
| -poietic | pretending to production |
| -protein | substance the produces |
| -para | bearing |
| -poroisi | leasoning in density |
| -rrhage | deischarging heavily |
| -rrhea | flowing, aflux |
| -schisis | splitting |
| -somnia | sleep |
| -spasm | contraction |
| -stalsis | contraction |
| -steasis | 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 a body part |
| -lysis | destruction of |
| -lytic | pretending to destruction |
| -ostomy | an opening to the outside of the body |
| -pexy | fixation, usually done surgically |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
| -static,-stasis | maintaining a state |
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