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Suffixes
Term | Definition |
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-ad | toward |
-al | pertaining |
-algia | pain |
-ar | pertaining |
-asthenia | weakness, debility |
-ate | possessing, having the form of |
-blast | embryonic cell |
-clasia | to break, surgical fracture |
-clasis | to break, surgical fracture |
-clast | to break, surgical fracture |
-cure | care |
-cyte | cell |
-desis | binding, fixation |
-dynia | pain |
-eal | pertaining |
-ectomy | excision, removal |
-graph | instrument for recording |
-iatry | medicine, treatment |
-ia | condition |
-ic | pertaining |
-ism | condition |
-ist | specialist |
-itis | inflammation |
-kinesia | movement |
-logist | specialist in the study of |
-malacia | softening |
-metry | act of measuring |
-oid | resembling |
-oma | tumor |
-osis | abnormal condition, increase |
-pexy | fixation |
-physis | growth |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-plegia | paralysis |
-porosis | porous |
-ptosis | downward, displacement, prolapse |
-sarcoma | malignant tumor of connective tissue |
-scopy | visual examination |
-spasm | involuntary contraction, twitching |
-tension | to stretch |
-tomy | incision |
-trophy | development, nourishment |
-um | structure, thing |