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PCA Med term
medical term suffixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -ectomy | removal, excision, resection (appendectomy) |
| -algia | condition of pain (cephalgia, arthralgia, neuralgia) |
| -itis | inflammation (arthritis, meningitis) |
| -scope | instrument to visually examine (microscope, endoscope) |
| -opsy | to view (biopsy=views tissue) |
| -globin | -protein (myoglobin, hemoglobin) |
| -oma | tumor, mass (adenoma, lipoma, sarcoma) |
| -cyte | cell (leukocyte, erythrocyte, thrombocyte, lymphocyte) |