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Suffix
Suffixes
Term | Definition |
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Phobia | Fear |
Plasia | Abnormal Formation |
Plasty | Surgical Repair |
Plegia | Paralysis |
Pnea | Breath, Respiration |
Poiesis | Producing |
Porosis | Porous Condition |
Ptosis | Downward displacement |
Rrhage | Flowing Forth |
Rrhaphy | Suture |
Rrhea | Discharge |
Rrhexix | Rupture |
Sclerosis | Hardness |
Scope | Device for viewing |
Scopy | Act of viewing |
Spasm | Muscular contraction |
Stasis | Level; Unchanging |
Stenosis | Narrowed; Blocked |
Stomy | Permanent opening |
Tome | Instrument for cutting |
Tomy | Incision |
Tripsy | Crushing |
Cele | Protrusion, hernia |
Centesis | Surgical puncture |
Cyte | Cell |
Desis | Surgical binding |
Dynia, Algia | Pain |
Ectasis, Ectasia | Expansion, dialation |
Ectomy | Surgical removal |
Edema | Excessive fluid in intracellular tissues |
Emesis | Vomitting |
Emia | Blood |
Genic | Origin, producing |
Gram | Written or pictorial record |
Graph | Device for graphic or pictorial recording |
Graphy | Act of graphic or pictorial recording |
Ian, Iatrist, Ist, Logist, Logy, Ics, Iatry, Iatrics | Specialty of, study of, practice of |
Iasis | Converts suffix to a noun indication a condition |
Ism | A condition of; a process; or a state of |
Itis | Inflammation |
Lith | Stone, calculus, calcification |
Lysis | Disintegration |
Malacia | Softening |
Megaly | Enlargement |
Meter | Device for Measuring |
Oid | Like |
Oma | Tumor |
Opsy | Visual Examination |
Osis | Abnormal condition |
Pathy | Disease |
Penia | Reduction of size or quantity |
Pexy | Surgical fixation |
Kinesia | Movement |
Physis | To grow |
Paresis | Partial or incomplete paralysis; Weakness/loss of movement |
Mania | "Morbid attraction to" or "impulse toward" |
Mnesia | Memory |
Oid | Like |
Phasia | Speech |
Ectasis | Dilation |
Emia | Blood |