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Suffixes/Prefixes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| SUFFIX: Centesis | Removal of fluid |
| SUFFIX: Ectomy | To surgically remove |
| SUFFIX: Ize | Use or subject to |
| SUFFIX: Pexy | Fixation or suturing |
| SUFFIX: Plasty | To shape, the surgical formation of, or plastic surgery |
| SUFFIX: Rraphy | To surgically repair |
| SUFFIX: Stomy | To make a new, artificial opening in a hollow organ, or to make a new opening between two hollow organs |
| SUFFIX: Tomy | To cut into |
| SUFFIX: Algia | Pain |
| SUFFIX: Emesis | Vomit |
| SUFFIX: Emia | Blood condition |
| SUFFIX: Esis, Iasis, Asis | Infestation or infection |
| SUFFIX: Genesis | Development |
| SUFFIX: Ism | A state or condition |
| SUFFIX: Itis | Inflammation |
| SUFFIX: Megaly | Enlarged |
| SUFFIX: Oma | Tumor |
| SUFFIX: Osis | Abnormal condition or process of degeneration |
| SUFFIX: Path, Pathy | Disease |
| SUFFIX: Penia | Deficiency or lack of |
| SUFFIX: Phage, Phagy | Eating |
| SUFFIX: Phobia | Abnormal fear or intolerance of |
| SUFFIX: Plasia, Plastic, Plasty | Forming, growing, changing |
| SUFFIX: Pnea | Breathing |
| SUFFIX: Rrhea | Flow or discharge |
| SUFFIX: Graph | Instrument or machine that writes or records |
| SUFFIX: Graphy | Procedure of using an instrument or machine to record |
| SUFFIX: Gram | Product, written record, "picture", or graph produced |
| SUFFIX: Meter | Instrument or machine that measures or counts |
| SUFFIX: Metry, Imetry | Procedure of measuring |
| SUFFIX: Scope | Instrument of examining, viewing, or listening |
| SUFFIX: Scopy | Act of examining or using the scope |
| SUFFIX: Tome | Instrument for cutting |
| PREFIX: A, An | Without or not having |
| PREFIX: Anti | Against |
| PREFIX: Brachy | Short |
| PREFIX: Brady | Slow |
| PREFIX: Cata | Down, under, lower, against |
| PREFIX: Contra | Against or opposed |
| PREFIX: Crypto | Hidden |
| PREFIX: De | Remove, take away, loss of |
| PREFIX: Dis | Apart from or free from |
| PREFIX: Dolich | Long |
| PREFIX: Dys | Difficult, painful, abnormal |
| PREFIX: E, Ec, Ex | Out of, from, away from |
| PREFIX: Eu | Normal, good, true, healthy |
| PREFIX: Glyco, Gluco | Sugar or sweet |
| PREFIX: Hema, Hemato, Hemo | Blood |
| PREFIX: Hemi | Half |
| PREFIX: Hydro | Water or fluid |
| PREFIX: Hyper | High or excessive |
| PREFIX: Hypo | Low or insufficient |
| PREFIX: Macro, | Large |
| PREFIX: Mega, Megalo | Large or oversized |
| PREFIX: Micro | Small |
| PREFIX: Necro | Death |
| PREFIX: Neo | New |
| PREFIX: Oligo | Few or little |
| PREFIX: Pan | All or entire |
| PREFIX: Poly | Many or much |
| PREFIX: Pseudo | False |
| PREFIX: Pyo | Pus |
| PREFIX: Tachy | Fast or rapid |
| PREFIX: Mal | Bad or poor |
| PREFIX: Ure, Urea, Ureo, Urin, Urino, Uro | Urine or urea |
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