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Terminology - suffix
Term | Definition |
---|---|
-ac | Pertaining to |
-al | Pertaining to |
-Algia | Pain |
-cyte | Cell |
-ectomy | Excision or removal |
-emia | Blood condition |
-genic | Pertaining to producing Produced by Produced in |
-globin | Protein |
-gram | Record |
-ic - ical | Pertaining to |
-ion | Process |
-ist | Specialist |
-ology | Process of study |
-oma | Tumour, mass, swelling |
-Opsy | Process of viewing |
-osis | Condition, usually abnormal |
-pathy | Disease condition |
-scope | Instrument to visually examine |
-scopy | Process of visually examining |
-sis | State of, condition |
-tomy | Process of cutting, incision |
-y | Process, condition |
Cele | Hernia |
Centesis | Surgical puncture to remove fluid |
Coccus | Berry shaped bacterium |
Dynia | Pain |
Genesis | Condition of producing, forming |
Graph | Instrument for recording |
Graphy | Process of recording |
Itis | Inflammation |
Lysis | Breakdown, destruction, separation |
Malacia | Softening |
Megaly | Enlargement |
Penia | Deficiency |
Phobia | Fear of |
Plasia | Development, formation, growth |
Plasty | Surgical repair |
Ptosis | Drooping, falling, prolapse |
Rrhea | Flow, discharge |
Sclerosis | Hardening |
Statis | Controlling, stopping |
Stomy | Opening to form a mouth |
Therapy | Treatment |
Tomy | Incision, cutting into |
Trophy | Development, nourishment |
Er | One, who |
Ia | Condition |
Ole | Little, small |
Ule | Little, small |
Um, ium | Structure, tissue |
Us | Structure, substance |
Ar, ary, eal, ous, tic | Pertaining to |
Oid | Resembling, deprived from |
Ose | Pertaining to, full of |