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A&P Suffixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| injection | -clysis |
| tumor | -oma |
| memory | -mnesia |
| producing, forming, origin | -genesis,genic |
| pregnancy | -cyesis |
| glue | -glia |
| abnormal(morbid)condition, increase (used primarily with blood cells) | -osis |
| pain | -dynia |
| small | -icle |
| treament | -therapy |
| fear of | -phobia |
| breathing | -pnea |
| spitting | -ptysis |
| suture | -rrhaphy |
| hardening | -sclerosis |
| vision | -opia |
| act of measuring | -metry |
| sound, voice | -phonia |
| pertaining to | -ic |
| born, or producing | -gen |
| small | -ule, ula |
| nourishment, developement | -trophy |
| to turn | -version |
| stopping, control, standing still | -stasis |
| poison | -toxic |
| crushing | -tripsy |
| incision, to cut | -tomy |
| puncture | -centesis |
| hernia, protrusion, swelling | -cele |
| speech | -phasia |
| paralysis | -plegia |
| braking up, separation, destruction | -lysis |
| abnormal condition (usually produced by something specific) | -iasis |
| stone, calculus | -lith |
| inflammation | -itis |
| break, fracture | -clasis |
| protein | -globin |
| surgical repair | -plasty |
| knowledge | -gnosis |
| process | -y |
| formation | -plasm |
| study of | -logy |
| small | -ole |
| flow, discharge | -rrhea |
| burst forth | -rrhagia, rrhage |
| enlargement | -megaly |
| instrument for visual examination | -scope |
| instrument of recording | -graph |
| movement, motion | -kinesis |
| record, writing | -gram |
| partial paralysis | -paresis |
| one who specializes | -ist |
| attraction for | -philia |
| hearing | -cusis |
| vomiting | -emesis |
| beginning | -arche |
| stricture, narrowing | -stenosis |
| enzyme | -ase |
| eat, swallow | -phagia |
| blood | -emia |
| drooping, prolapse, downward displacement | -ptosis |
| visual inspection | -scopy |
| dilating, stretchin, expanision | -ectasis |
| to bear (offspring) | -para |
| madness | -mania |
| removal, excision | -ectomy |
| softening | -malacia |
| deficiency, decrease | -penia |
| like, resembling | -oid |
| condition | -ia |
| disease, emotion | -pathy |
| carbon dioxide | -capnia |
| rupture | -rrhexis |
| instument for cutting | -tome |
| developement, formation, growth | -plasia |
| instrument for measuring | -meter |
| to separate | -crit |
| pain | -algia |
| cell | -cyte |
| to kill | -cide |
| weakness | -asthenia |
| specialist in the study of | -logist |
| fixation, to put in place (of an organ) | -pexy |
| fiaxtion, binding (of a bone or joint) | -desis |
| process of recording | -graphy |
| new opening, forming an opening | -stomy |
| formation, production | -poiesis |
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