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Suffi
Medical Term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| No meaning | -A, -e |
| Pertaining to | -ac, -ar,- ary |
| Toward | -ad |
| Pain | -algia |
| Amnion, amniotic fluid | -amnios |
| Removal | -apheresis |
| weakness | -asthenia |
| cancerous tumor | -carcinoma |
| hernia, protrusions, swelling | -cele |
| Surgical puncture to aspirate fluid | -centesis |
| to secrete | -crine |
| pregnancy | -cyesis |
| cell | -cyte |
| adult cell | -blast |
| destructive cell | -clast |
| surgical fixation, fusion | -desis |
| run, running | -drome |
| pertaining to | -eal, -ior, -ic |
| stretching out, dilation, expansion | -ectasis |
| condition | -ism, -esis, - iasis |
| excision, surgical removal, cut out | -ectomy |
| vomiting | -emesis |
| in the blood | -emia |
| substance, agent that produces, causes | -gen |
| producing, originating, causing | -genic |
| the record, radiographic image | -gram |
| the instrument, the record | -graph |
| process of recording, procedure | -graphy |
| condition of, diseased state, abnormal state | -ia |
| specialist | -iatrist |
| specialty, treatment | -iatry |
| seizure, attack | -ietal |
| state of | -ism |
| inflammation | -itis |
| specialist who studies and treat. | -logist |
| study of | -logy |
| separating, loosening, dissolution | -lysis |
| enlarged, enlargement | -megaly |
| instrument used to measure | -meter |
| softening | -malacia |
| measuring. process of measuring | -metry |