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AAMA-CMA6
Suffixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Blood | -emia |
| Bursting forth | -rrhexis |
| Cell | -cyte |
| Condition | -osis,-ia, -ism |
| To crush | -tripsy |
| To cut into | -tomy |
| Cutting instrument | -tome |
| Destroy | -lysis |
| Disease of | -pathy |
| Drooping | -ptosis |
| Enlargement | -megaly |
| Fear | -phobia |
| Flow or discharge | -rrhea |
| Formation | -genesis |
| Hardening | -sclerosis |
| Herniation | -cele |
| Infection or inflammation | -itis |
| Infestation | -iasis |
| Instrument to examine | -scope |
| Instrument to measure | -meter |
| Instrument to record data | -graph |
| Involuntary movement | -spasm |
| Kill | -cide |
| Lack of | -penia |
| Live birth | -para |
| Madness | -mania |
| Make a new opening | -stomy |
| Measurement | -metry |
| Narrowing | -stenosis |
| Nutrition or development | -trophy |
| One who | -er |
| Pain | -algia, -dynia |
| Pertaining to | -ic, -al, -otic, -ac, -ar, -ous |
| Picture | -graph |
| Pregnancy | -gravida |
| Process of | -y |
| Recording of data | -graphy |
| To remove or cut out | -ectomy |
| Resembling | -oid |
| Seizure | -lepsy |
| Softening | -malacia |
| Specialist | -ist |
| Staying in one place | -stasis |
| Stone | -lith |
| Stretching | -ectasia |
| Study of | -logy |
| Surgical fixation | -pexy |
| Surgical Puncture | -centesis |
| To surgically repair | -plasty |
| Swelling | -edema |
| Treatment | -therapy |
| Tumor | -oma |
| Vomiting | -emesis |
| Washing | -clysis |
| Urine | -uria |
| Turning | -tropic |
| To surgically suture | -rrhaphy |