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medical suffixes
med stuff
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| -ac | pertaining to |
| -agon | to assemble; gather |
| -al | pertaining to |
| -algesia | sensitvity to pain |
| -algia | pain |
| -an | pertaing to |
| -ar | pertaining to |
| -ary | pertaining to |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -ation | process; condition |
| -blast | immature; embryonic |
| -cele | hernia |
| -centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid or gas |
| -chezia | defication; elimination of waste |
| -clast | to break |
| -coccus; -cocci | berry-shaped bacterium |
| -cyesis | pregnancy |
| -cyte | cell |
| -cytosis | Increase in cell number |
| -derma | skin |
| -desis | surgical fixation; to bind; tie together |
| -dynia | pain |
| -eal | pertaining to |
| -ectasis; -ectasia | stretching; dilation; dialation |
| -ectomy | removal; excision; resection |
| -ema | condition |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -emic | pertaining to a blood condition |
| -esthesia | nervous sensation |
| -etic | pertaining to; pertaining to the condition |
| -fication | process of making |
| -gen | producing; forming |
| -genesis | producing; forming |
| -genic | produced by or in |
| -genous | producing |
| -globin | protein |
| -globulin | protein |
| -gram | record |
| -graph | instrument for recording |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -gravida | pregnancy |
| -ia | condition |
| -iac | pertaining to |
| -iasis | abnormal condition |
| -ic | pertaining to |
| -ical | pertaining to |
| -in | a substance |
| -ine | a substance |
| -ion | process |
| -ior | pertaining to |
| -ism | process; condition |
| -ist | specialist |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -ium | structure; tissue |
| -kinesis; -kinesia; -kinetic | movement |
| -lithiasis | abdormal condition of stones |
| -logy | study of |
| -lysis | breakdown; separation; destruction; loosening |
| -lytic | to reduce; destroy; separate; breakdown |
| -malacia | softening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -meter | measure |
| -metry | measurement |
| -oid | resembling |
| -ole | small; little |
| -one | hormone |
| -oma | tumor; mass; fluid collection |
| -opia | vision |
| -opsy | view of |
| -orexia | appetite |
| -ose | pertaining to; full of; sugar |
| -osis | abnormal condition |
| -otic | pertaining to the abnormal condition |
| -ous | pertaining to |
| -oxia | oxygen |
| -para | to bear; bringing forth (live births) |
| -parous | to bear; bring forth |
| -partum | birth; labor |
| -pathy | disease condition |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -pepsia | digestion |
| -pexy | surgical fixation; to put in place |
| -phage | eat; swallow |
| -phalgia | eating; swallowing |
| -phil | attraction for |
| -philia | increase in the number of cells; attraction for |
| -phobia | fear |
| -physis | to grow |
| -plasia | development; formation; growth |
| -plasm | formation |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -plegia | paralysis; palsy |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -poiesis | formation |
| -poietin | substance that forms |
| -porosis | condition of pores (spaces) |
| -prandial | meal |
| -ptosis | drooping; sagging; prolapse |
| -ptyalo | spit; saliva |
| -ptysis | spitting |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -rrhea | flow; discharge |
| -sclerosis | hardening |
| -scope | instrument for visual examination |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| -sis | state of; condition |
| -somes | bodies |
| -spasm | sudden involuntary contraction of muscles |
| -sphyxia | pulse |
| -stasis | stopping; controlling; place |
| -stalsis | contraction |
| -stenosis | tightening; narrowing; stricture |
| -sthenia | strength |
| -stomy | new opening to the outside of the body |
| -tension | pressure |
| -therapy | treatment |
| -thorax | chest; pleural cavity |
| -tocia | labor; birth |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -tomy | incision; process of cutting |
| -tresia | opening |
| -tripsy | to crush |
| -trophy | development; nourishment |
| -tropia | to turn |
| -tropic | turning |
| -tropin | stimulate; act on |
| -ule | small; little |
| -um | structure; tissue; thing; pertaining to |
| -uria | urination; condition of urine |
| -version | to turn |
| -y | condition |
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