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My suffixes
Med term suffixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -plegia | paralysis(paraplegia) |
| -ectasis | dialation, expansion |
| -cele | hernia, swelling |
| -iatry | medicine, treatment |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | bursting |
| -pexy | fixation (of an organ) |
| -esthesia | feeling |
| -metry | act of measuring |
| -graph | instrument for recording |
| -clasis | to break, surgical fracture |
| -desis | binding, fixation of a joint |
| -iasis | abnormal condition (produced by something specific) |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -plasia | growth(hypochondroplasia) |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -tripsy | crushing |
| -osis | abnormal condition (cells) |
| -ac, -al, -ary, -eal, -ic, -icle, ior, -ous, -tic | pertaining to |
| -esis, -ism | condition |
| -ia | condition |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -logy | study of |
| -phasia | speech(aphasia) |
| -plasm | formation, growth |
| -trophy | nourishment, development |
| -philia | tendency, liking |
| -ician, -ist | specialist |
| -y | condition, process |
| -icle, -ole, -ule | diminuative |
| - lysis | destruction, loosening |
| - phagia | swallowing(dysphagia) |
| ab - | from, away from |
| ad - | toward |
| dia- | through, across(diarreah) |
| trans- | through, across(transvaginal) |
| ecto- | outside, outward(ectogenous) |
| exo- | outside, outward(exotopia) |
| extra- | ouside, outward(extracranial) |
| endo- | in, within(endocrine) |
| intra- | in, within(intramuscular) |
| para- | near, beside |
| super- | upper, above |
| supra- | above, excessive, superior |
| ultra- | excessive, beyond |
| an- | without(a- before a vowel) |
| dys- | bad, painful, difficult |
| eu- | good, normal |
| homeo- | same |
| pan- | all |
| syn- | union, together, joined(is sym- before p, b, ph or m) |
| -ptosis | prolapse, downward displacement |
| poly- | many |
| -opia | eyes |
| intra- | within |
| infra- | below |
| -cyesis | pregnancy |
| circum- | around |
| contra- | against |
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