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Box 4-5 Suffix
Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants 4th Edition
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -ALGIA | pain |
| -ASIS | condition, usually abnormal |
| -CELE | hernia, herniation, pouching |
| -CENTESIS | puncture and aspiration of |
| -CYTE | cell |
| -ECTASIS | dilation, stetching |
| -ECTOMY | excision, removal of |
| -EMIA | blood condition |
| -GENESIS | development, production, creation |
| -GENIC | producing, causing |
| -GRAM | record |
| -GRAPH | a diagram, a recording insturment |
| -GRAPHY | making a recording |
| -IASIS | condition of |
| -ISM | a condition |
| -ITIS | inflammation |
| -LOGY | the study of |
| -LYSIS | destruction of, decomposition |
| -MEGALY | enlargement |
| -METER | measuring insturment |
| -OMA | tumor |
| -OSIS | condition |
| -PATHY | disease |
| -PENIA | lack, deficiency |
| -PHAGIA | to eat or consume, swallowing |
| -PHASIA | speaking |
| -PHOBIA | an exaggerated fear |
| -PLASTY | surgical repair or reshaping |
| -PLEGIA | paralysis |
| -PTOSIS | falling, sagging, dropping down |
| -RRHAGE or -RRHAGIA | excessive flow |
| -rrhaphy | STICTCHING, SUTURING |
| -rrhea | profuse flow, discharge |
| -scope | examination insturment |
| -scopy | examination using a scope |
| -stasis | maintenance, maintaining a constant level |
| -stomy, -ostomy | creation of an opening |
| -tomy, -otomy | incision, cutting into |
| -uria | condition of the urine |