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LOM Ch 3 Noun Suffix
Medical Terminology
Question | Answer |
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-algia | pain |
-cele | hernia |
-centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid |
-coccus | berry-shaped |
-cyte | cell |
-dynia | pain |
-ectomy | excision; resection (such as appendectomy) |
-emia | blood condition |
-genesis | condition of producing, forming |
-gram | record |
-graph | instrument for recording |
-graphy | process of recording |
-itis | inflammation |
-logy | study of |
-lysis | breakdown, destruction, separation |
-malacia | softening |
-megaly | enlargement |
-oma | tumor, mass, collection of fluid |
-opsy | to view |
-osis | conditon, usually abnormal |
-pathy | disaease condition |
-penia | deficiency |
-phobia | fear |
-plasia | development, formation, growth |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-ptosis | falling, dropping, prolapse |
-sclerosis | hardening |
-scope | instrument for visual exam |
-scopy | process of visual exam |
-stasis | stopping, controlling |
-stomy | surgically created artificial opening, to form a mouth (such as colostomy) |
-therapy | treatment |
-tomy | incision, cuting into |
-trophy | development, nourishment |
-er | one who |
-ia | condition |
-ist | specialist |
-ole | little, small |
-ule | little, small |
-um, -ium | structure, tissue |
-us | structure, substance |
-y | condition, process |
-ac, -iac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ical,-ose, -ous, -tic | pertaining to |
-genic | produced by or pertaining to produced by |