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Ch 2 Suffixes
Medical Terminology Theirer
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| -para | bearing |
| -paresis | slight paralysis |
| -parous | producing, bearing |
| -pathy | disease |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -pepsia | digestion |
| -pexy | fixation, usually done surgically |
| -pahge, -phagia, -phagy | eating, devouring |
| -phasia | speaking |
| -pheresis | removal |
| -phil | attraction, affinity for |
| -philia | attraction, affinity for |
| -phobia | fear |
| -phonia | sound |
| -phoresis | carrying |
| -phoria | feeling; carrying |
| -phrenia | of the mind |
| -phthisis | wasting away |
| -phylaxis | protection |
| -physis | growing |
| -plakia | plaque |
| -plasia | formation |
| -plasm | formation |
| -plastic | forming |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -plegic | one who is paralyzed |
| -pnea | breath |
| -poiesis | formation |
| -poietic | forming |
| -poietin | one that forms |
| -porosis | lessening in density |
| -ptosis | falling down, drooping |
| -rrhage | discharging heavily |
| -rrhagia | heavy dischage |
| -rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
| -rrhea | a flowing, a flux |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -schisis | splitting |
| -scope | instrument |
| -scopy | instrument |
| -somnia | sleep |
| -spasm | contraction |
| -stalsis | contraction |
| -stasis | stopping, constant |
| -stat | agent to maintain a state |
| -static | maintaining a state |
| -stenosis | narrowing |
| -stomy | opening |
| -tome | cutting instrument, segment |
| -tomy | cutting operation |
| -trophic | nurticional |
| -trophy | nutritional |
| -tropia | turning |
| -tropic | turning toward |
| -trophy | condition of turning around |
| -uria | urine |
| -version | turning |
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