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Suffix (Anatomy)
Suffixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -ac, -al | pertaining to |
| -algia | pain |
| -cyte | cell |
| -ectomy | excision, removal |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -genic | pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in |
| -globin | protein |
| -gram | record |
| -ic, -ical | pertaining to |
| -ion | process |
| -ist | specialist |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -logy | process of study |
| -oma | tumor, mass, swelling |
| -opsy | process of viewing |
| -osis | condition, usually abnormal (slight increase in numbers when used with blood cells) |
| -pathy | disease condition |
| -scope | instrument to visually examine |
| -scopy | process of visually examining with an endoscope |
| -sis | state of; condition |
| -tomy | process of cutting, incision |
| -y | process, condition |
| -eal, -iac -ior | pertaining to |
| -ism | process, condition |
| -ose | pertaining to, full of |
| -plasm | formation |
| -somes | bodies |
| -type | picture, classification |
| -algia | pain |
| -cele | hernia |
| -centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid |
| -coccus (plural: -cocci) | berry-shaped bacterium (plural: bacteria) |
| -cyte | cell |
| -dynia | pain |
| -ectomy | excision, removal, resection |
| -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 | condition, usually abnormal |
| -pathy | disease condition |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -phobia | fear |
| -plasia | development, formation, growth |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -ptosis | falling, dropping, prolapse |
| -sclerosis | hardening |
| -scope | instrument for visual examination |
| -scopy | process of visual examination (with an endoscope) |
| -stasis | stopping, controlling |
| -stomy | opening to form a mouth (stoma) |
| -therapy | treatment |
| -tomy | incision, cutting into |
| -trophy | development, nourishment |
| -er | one who |
| -ia | condition |
| -ist | specialist |
| -ole, -ule | little, small |
| -um, -ium | structure, tissue |
| -us | structure, substance |
| -y | condition, process |
| -ac, -iac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ical, -ous, -tic | pertaining to |
| -genic | Pertaining to producing, produced by, or in |
| -oid | Resembling |
| -ose | Pertaining to, full of |
| -blast | embryonic, immature |
| -crine | to secrete |
| -cyesis | pregnancy |
| -drome | to run |
| -fusion | coming together; to pour |
| -gen | substance that produces |
| -lapse | to slide, fall, sag |
| -meter | to measure |
| -mission | to send |
| -or | one who |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -chezia | defecation, elimination of wastes |
| -iasis | abnormal condition |
| -prandial | meal |
| -ectasis, -ectasia | stretching, dilation, dilatation, widening |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -pepsia | digestion |
| -phagia | eating, swallowing |
| -ptysis | spitting |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | bursting forth (of blood) |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -rrhea | flow, discharge |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction of muscles |
| -stasis | stopping; controlling |
| -stenosis | tightening, stricture, narrowing |
| -tresia | opening |
| -arche | beginning |
| -cyesis | pregnancy |
| -gravida | pregnant |
| -parous | bearing, bringing, forth |
| -salpinx | fallopian (uterine) tube |
| -tocia | labor, birth |
| -version | act of turning |
| -one | hormone |
| -pexy | fixation, put in place |
| -algesia, algesio/o | excessive sensitivity to pain |
| -esthesia, esthesi/o | feeling, nervous sensation |
| -kenesia, -kinesis, -kinetic, kines/o, kinesi/o | movement |
| -lepsy | seizure |
| -paresis | weakness, partial paralysis, weakness of muscles |
| -phasia | speech |
| -plegia | paralysis (loss or impairmen of the ability to move parts of the body) |
| -praxia | action |
| -sthenia | strength |
| -syncope, syncop/o | to cut off, cut short |
| -ema | condition |
| -osmia | smell |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -sphyxia | pulse |
| -thorax | pleural cavity, chest |
| -apheresis | removal, a carrying away |
| -cytosis | abnormal condition of cells (increase in cells) |
| -globin, -globulin | protein |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -phage | eat, swallow |
| -philia | attraction for (an increase in cell numbers) |
| -phoresis | carrying, transmission |
| -poiesis | formation |
| -stasis | stop, control |
| -clast | to break |
| -listhesis | slipping |
| -physis | to grow |
| -porosis | pore, passage |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -desis | to bind, tie together |
| -stenosis | narrowing |
| -asthenia | lack of strength |
| -trophy | development, nourishment |
| -opia | vision |
| -opsia | vision |
| -tropia | to turn |
| -acusis, -cusis | hearing |
| -otia | ear condition |
| -agon | assemble, gather together |
| -in, -ine | a substance |
| -tropin | Stimulating the function of (to turn or act on) |
| -uria | urine condition |
| -blastoma | immature tumor |
| -genesis | formation |
| -plasia, -plasm | formation, growth |
| -suppression | to stop |
| -lucent | to shine |
| -opaque | obscure |
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