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Nursing suffixes
Medical Terminology
Question | Answer |
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-logist | one who studies |
-logy | science or study of |
-er; -ist | one who |
-iatrician | practitioner |
-iatrics; -iatry | medical profession; treatment |
-ac; -al; -ic; -logic; - logical | pertaining to |
-centesis | surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid |
-ectomy | excision (surgical removal or cutting out) |
-lysis | process of loosening, freeing, or destroying |
-pexy | surgical fixation (fascination in a fixed position |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-rraphy | suture (uniting a wound by stitches) |
-scopy | visual examination with a lighted instrument (not always a surgical procedure) |
-tome | instrument used for cutting |
-tomy | incision (cutting into tissue) |
-tripsy | surgical crushing |
-algia; -dynia | pain |
-cele | hernia |
-ecstasia; -ecstasis | dilation |
-emesis | vomitting |
-emia | blood condition |
-ia; -iasis | inflammation |
-lith | stone |
-malacia | soft; softening |
-mania | excessive preoccupation |
-megaly | enlargement |
-oid | resembling |
-oma | tumor |
-osis | condition |
-pathy | diesease |
-penia | deficiency |
-phobia | abnormal fear |
-ptosis | prolapse (sagging) |
-rrhage; rrhagia | excessive bleeding or hemorrhage |
-rrhea | flow or discharge |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-spasm | twitching, cramp |
-stasis | stopping, controlling |
-able; -ible | capable of, able to |
-ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ive, -tic | pertaining to |
-ase | enzyme |
-eum, -ium | membrane |
-ia, -ism | condition, theory |
-iac | one who suffers |
-opia | vision |
-ose | sugar |
-ous | pertaining to or characterized by |
-y | state or condition |