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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 |