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CMT Chapter 3
COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY FIFTH EDITION - SUFFIXES
TERM | MEANING |
---|---|
CEPHAL | HEAD |
-DYNIA | PAIN |
-ALGIA | PAIN |
-A | NOUN |
-ATE | SOMETHING THAT |
-E | NOUN |
-EMIA | BLOOD CONDITION |
-ER | ONE WHO |
-ESIS | CONDITION OF |
-IA | NOUN ENDING; CONDITION |
-IATRY | MEDICAL TREATMENT, MEDICAL PROFESSION |
-ION | ACTION, PROCESS |
-ISM | CONDITION |
-IST | PRACTITIONER |
-OLE | SMALL OR LITTLE |
-OSIS | CONDITION |
-TION | PROCESS OF |
-ULA | SMALL, LITTLE |
-ULE | "SMALL ONE" |
-UM | IDENTIFIES SINGULAR NOUN |
-US | IDENTIFIES SINGULAR NOUN |
-Y | CONDITION; PROCESS |
AC | PERTAINING TO |
-AL | PERTAINING TO |
-AR | PERTAINING TO |
-ARY | PERTAINING TO |
-EAL | PERTAINING TO |
-IC | PERTAINING TO |
-ICAL | COMBO OF -IC AND -AL |
-ILE | PERTAINING TO; CAPABLE |
-OID | RESEMBLING |
-ORY | PERTAINING TO; CHARACTERIZED |
-OUS | PERTAINING TO |
-TIC | PERTAINING TO |
-ICIAN | SPECIALIST IN A FIELD OF STUDY |
-IATRICS | RELATING TO MEDICINE; PHYSICIANS, OR MEDICAL TREATMENT |
-IATRY | MEDICAL TREATMENT, MEDICAL PROFESSION |
-IATRIST | ONE WHO TREATS; A PHYSICIAN |
-IAN | SPECIALIST IN A FIELD OF STUDY |
-IST | PRACTITIONER |
-LOGIST | SPECIALIZES IN THE STUDY OF |
-LOGY | THE STUDY OF |
-CENTESIS | SURGICAL PUNCTURE |
-CLASIS | CRUSHING OR BREAKING UP |
-DESIS | BINDING OR SURGICAL FUSION |
-ECTOMY | SURGICAL REMOVAL |
-GRAM | RECORD OR PICTURE |
-GRAPH | INSTRUMENT USED TO RECORD |
-GRAPHY | PROCESS OF RECORDING |
-IZE | TO MAKE; TO TREAT OR COMBINE WITH |
-LYSIS | DESTRUCTION OR DETACHMENT |
-METER | AN INSTRUMENT USED TO MEASURE |
-METRY | THE PROCESS OF MEASURING |
-OPSY | PROCESS OF VIEWING |
-PEXY | SURGICAL FIXATION |
-PLASTY | SURGICAL REPAIR |
-RRHAPHY | SUTURING |
-SCOPE | INSTRUMENT USED TO VIEW |
-SCOPY | PROCESS OF VIEWING WITH A SCOPE |
-STOMY | SURGICAL CREATION OF A NEW OPENING |
-TOMY | INCISION INTO |
-TRIPSY | INTENTIONAL CRUSHING |