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Suffix
| Suffix | Meaning |
|---|---|
| -Uria | Urine |
| -Somnia | Sleep |
| -Rrhage, -rrhagia | Heavy discharge |
| -Rrhea | Discharge, flowing |
| -Plasty | Surgical repair |
| -Phonia | Sound |
| -Phobia | Abnormal fear |
| -Pathy | Disease |
| -Ose | Sugar |
| -Meter, -Metry | Measuring device, Process of measuring |
| -Mania, -Manic | Abnormal Preoccupation or obsession |
| -Logy | The study of |
| -Logist | One who studies |
| -Graph | Instrument used to record |
| -Emia | Blood |
| -Derma | Skin |
| -Cyte | Cell |
| -Cide, -Cidal | Killing, Destroying |
| -Blast | Baby, Immature |
| -Stasis | Stopping |
| -Scope, -Scopy | Instrument, Process of using the instrument |
| -Pepsia | Digestion |
| -Kinesia, -Kinesis | Movement |
| -Esthesia | Sensation, Felling |
| -Edema | Swelling, Fluid accumulation |
| -Ectomy | Surgical removal |
| -Ase | Enzyme |
| -ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ia, -ic, -ory, -ous, -tic | Pertaining to, Condition (of) |
| -Graphy | Process of recording |
| -Itis | Inflammation |
| -Version | Turning |
| -Trophic, -Trophy | Nutrition |
| -Tomy | the process of cutting |
| -Tome | instrument used for cutting |
| -Stomy | Opening |
| -Stenosis | Narrowing |
| -Rrexis | Rupture |
| -Rrhaphy | Suturing |
| -Ptosis | Sagging or drooping |
| - Poiesis | Formation |
| -Pnea | Breath or breathing |
| -Plegia, -Plegic | Paralysis |
| -Phrenia, -phrenic | Mind, Diaphragm |
| -Phil, -Philia | To love |
| -Phasia | Speaking |
| -Phage, -Phagy, -Phagia | to eat or digest |
| -Pexy | Surgical fixation |
| -Penia | Deficiency |
| -Para, -Parous | Child Bearing, Producing |
| -Ostomy | Formation of a new opening |
| -Opia | Vison |
| -Ad | Toward |
| -Oma | Tumor |
| -Oid | Resemble |
| -Megaly | Enlargement |
| -Malacia | Softening |
| Lysis, -Lytic | Destroyed |
| -Goblin, Globulin | Protein |
| -Gen, -Genesis, -Genic | Producing, Production, production of, Formation |
| -Emesis | Vomiting |
| -ema, -iasis, -ism, -lepsy, -osis | Condition, Abnormal condition |
| -Ectasia, Ectasis | Streaching, Dilating |
| -Crine | To secrete |
| -Cele | Hernia, Abnormal protrusion |
| -Asthenia | Weakness |
| -Algia, -Dynia | Pain |
| -Gram | Recording |