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Chpter one, prt2
Suffixes
Question | Answer |
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Aden/o | Gland |
arthro/o | joint |
bi/o | life |
carcin/o | cancerous,cancer |
cardi/o | heart |
cephal/o | head |
cerebr/o | cerebrum, Largest part of your brain |
cis/o | to cut |
crin/o | to secrete (to form and give off) |
cyst/o | urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst ( sac containing fluid) |
cyte/o | cell |
derm/o | skin |
electr/o | electricity |
enchephal/o | brain |
enter/o | intestines(usually small intestines) |
erythr/o | red |
gast/o | stomach |
glyc/o | sugar |
gnos/o | knowledge |
gynec/o | woman, female |
hemat/o | blood |
hem/o | blood |
hepat/o | liver |
iatr/o | treatment, phtsician |
leuk/o | white |
log/o | study of |
nephr/o | kidney |
neur/o | nerve |
onc/o | tumor |
ophthalm/o | eye |
oste/o | bone |
path/o | disease |
ped/o | child |
psych/o | mind |
radi/o | x-ray |
ren/o | kidney |
rhin/o | nose |
sacr/o | fleh |
sect/o | to cut |
thromb/o | clot. clotting |
ur/o | urinary track,urine |
-ac | pertaining to |
-al | pertaining to |
-algia | pain |
-cyte | cell |
-ectomy | excision,removal |
-emia | blood condition |
-genic | pertaining to, producing,produced by,or produced in |
-globin | protien |
-gram | record |
i-ic,-ical | pertaining to |
-ion | process |
-ist | specialist |
-itis | inflamation |
-logy | process of study |
-oma | tumor, mass swelling |
-opsy | process of viewing |
-osis | condition, usually abnormal 9slight increase in numbers of white blood cells) |
-pathy | disease condition |
-scope | instument to visually examine |
-scopy | process of visually examining with an endoscope |
-sis | state of, condition |
-tomy | process of cutting, incision |
-y | process, condition |
a-, an- | no,not, without |
aut auto- | self,own |
dia- | through complete |
end- endo- | within |
epi- | above,upon |
ex- exo- | out,outside of, outward |
hyper- | excessive,above,more than normal |
hypo- | deficient,below,under,less than normal |
in- | into, in |