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Suffixes Ch.3 Med
Suffixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pertaining to | -ac, -al |
| toward | -ad |
| sensitivity to pain | -algesia |
| pain | -algia |
| sonething that | -ate |
| immature, embryonic | -blast |
| herniation | -cele |
| surgical puncture | -centesis |
| to kill | -cide |
| crushing or breaking up | -clasis |
| cell | -cyte |
| pain | -dynia |
| noun ending | -e,-a |
| stretching, dilatation | -ectasia |
| surgical removal | -ectomy |
| blood condition | -emia |
| one who | -er |
| condition of | -esis |
| generating, formation | -genesis |
| record or picture | -gram |
| disease | -pathy |
| decrease in, deficiency | -penia |
| surgical fixation | -pexy |
| attracted to | -philia |
| surgical repair | -plasty |
| abnormal fear | -phobia |
| paralysis, stroke | -plegia |
| breathing | -pnea |
| dropping, prolapse | -ptosis |
| excessive flow, bursting forth | -rrhagia |
| suturing | -rrhaphy |
| drainage, flow | -rrhea |
| rupture | -rrhexis |
| instrument used to view | -scope |
| creation of a new opening | -stomy |
| incision into | -tomy |
| crushing | -tripsy |
| a characteristic of urine | -uria |
| stopping or controlling | -stasis |
| the process of viewing with an instrument | -scopy |
| instrument used to record | -graph |
| process of recording | -graphy |
| condition | -ia |
| action | -ion |
| one who(a specialist in a field of study) | -ist |
| inflammation | -itis |
| seizure | -lepsy |
| stone | -lith |
| the study of | -logy |
| one who specializes in the study of | -logist |
| destruction | -lysis |
| madness | -mania |
| enlargement | -megaly |
| an instrument used to measure | -meter |
| the process of measuring | -metry |
| resembling | -oid |
| small or little | -ole |
| tumor | -oma |
| visual condition | -opia |
| condition | -osis |
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