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Prefix and Suffixes

Medical Terminology

TermDefinition
centesis to puncture
ectomy surgically remove
ize use
pexy suturing (a stabilizing type of repair)
plasty plastic surgery, the surgical formation of
rraphy to surgically repair
stomy artificial opening in a hollow organ, to make new
tomy to cut into
algia pain
emesis vomit
emia blood condition
esis, iasis, asis infestation or infection with
genesis develpoment
ism a state or condition
itis inflammation of
megaly enlarged
oma tumor
osis abnormal condition
path, pathy disease
penia lack of
phage, phagy eating
phobia abnormal fear, fear of
plasia, plastic, plasty forming, growing, changing
pnea breathing
rrhea flow, discharge
a, an without
anti against
brachy short
brady slow
cata down
contra against, opposed, hidden
crypto hidden
de remove
dolich/o long
dys difficult
e, ec, ex out of, away from
eu normal
glyc/o, gluc/o sugar
hema, hemato, hem/o blood
hemi half
hydro fluid
hyper high, excessive
graph machine that writes or records, instrument
graphy procedure of using an instrument, or machine that records
gram written record, picture, or graph produced, product
meter machine that measures or counts, instrument
metry, imetry procedure of measuring
scope instrument for examining
scopy using the scope, act of examining
tome instrument for cutting
hypo low
macro large
mal bad
mega over sized
micro tiny
necro death
neo new
oligo few
pan entire
poly many
pseudo false
pyo pus
tachy fast, rapid
ure, urea, ureo, urin, urino, uro urine urea
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