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Digestive System 2
LOM Chapater 6 Sufixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -ectasis | stretching; dilation; widening |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -lysis | destruction; breakdown; separation |
| -pepsia | digestion |
| -phagia | eating; swallowing |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -ptosis | droop; sag; protrude |
| -ptysis | spitting |
| -rrhage, rrhagia | bursting forth (of blood) |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -rrhea | flow, discharge |
| -spasm | sudden, involuntary contraction of muscles |
| -stasis | to stop; control |
| -stenosis | tightening, stricture, narrowing |
| -tresia | opening |