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Med term suffixes
Question | Answer |
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-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 |