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Med. Termi. Suffixes
Med. Term. Suffixes to know for the Utah State Benchmark test for MA's
| Suffixes | Meanings |
|---|---|
| -iasis | abnormal condition (produced by something specified) |
| -osis | abnormal condition, increase (used primarily with blood cells) |
| -metry | act of measuring |
| -version | act of turning |
| -orexia | appetite |
| -phil | attraction to |
| -philia | attraction for |
| -arche | beginning |
| -emia | blood (condition) |
| -phoresis | borne, carried |
| -clasis | break, refracture |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -para | bring forth (live births) |
| -rrhage | bursting forth (of) |
| -rrhagia | bursting forth (of) |
| -capnia | carbon dioxide |
| -cyte | cell |
| -thorax | chest |
| -tocia | childbirth, labor |
| -ia | condition |
| -ism | condition |
| -y | condition |
| -tripsy | crushing |
| -penia | decrease, deficiency |
| -trophy | development, nourishment |
| -pepsia | digestion |
| -ectasis | dilation, expansion |
| -pathy | disease |
| -ptosis | downward displacement, prolapse, falling, dropping |
| -phagia | eating, swallowing |
| -blast | embryonic cellular development |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -ectomy | excision, removal |
| -salpinx | fallopian tubes, eustachian tubes, oviducts, uterine tubes |
| -phobia | fear |
| -esthesia | feeling, sensation |
| -desis | fixation of a bone or joint, binding of (a bone or joint) |
| -pexy | fixation of an organ |
| -rrhea | flow, discharge |
| -stomy | forming a new opening |
| -plasia | formation, growth |
| -plasm | formation, growth |
| -glia | glue |
| --physis | growth |
| -cusis | hearing |
| -cele | hernia, swelling |
| -tomy | incision, cut into |
| -itis | inflamation |
| -ad | in the direction of |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -meter | instrument for measuring |
| -graph | instrument for recording |
| -scope | instrument to view |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction, twitching |
| -gnosis | knowing |
| -prandial | meal |
| -iatrics | medicine, medical profession, physicians |
| -stenosis | narrowing stricture |
| -ia | nound ending |
| -algesia | pain |
| -algia | pain |
| -dynia | pain |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -paresis | partial paralysis |
| -ac | pertaining to |
| -al | pertaining to |
| -ar | pertaining to |
| -ary | pertaining to |
| -eal | pertaining to |
| -ic | pertaining to |
| -ical | pertaining to |
| -ory | pertaining to |
| -ous | pertaining to |
| -tic | pertaining to |
| -porosis | porous |
| -cyesis | pregnancy |
| -gravida | pregnancy, pregnant woman |
| -toxic | poison |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -gen | producing, forming |
| -genesis | producing, forming |
| -poiesis | production, formation |
| -ptosis | prolapse |
| -globin | protein |
| -centesis | puncture |
| -gram | record |
| -oid | resembling |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -crine | secrete |
| -lepsy | seizure |
| -lysis | separate, loosen, destroy |
| -derma | skin |
| -icle | small |
| -ole | small |
| -ula | small |
| -ule | small |
| -osmia | smell |
| -malacia | softening |
| -ist | specialist |
| -logist | specialist in the study of |
| -phasia | speech |
| -ptysis | spitting |
| -schisis | splitting, a |
| -stasis | standing still (of) |
| -tropin | stimulate |
| -lith | stone, calculus |
| -stenosis | stricture, narrowing |
| -logy | study of |
| -centesis | surgical puncture |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -edema | swelling |
| -phagia | swallow, eat |
| -dipsia | thirst |
| -para | to bear (offspring) |
| -therapy | treatment |
| -iatry | treatment, medicine |
| -oma | tumor |
| -tropia | turning |
| -uria | urine, urination |
| -opia | vision |
| -opsia | vision |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| -phonia | voice |
| -emesis | vomiting |
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