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my medical suffix
Medical terminology suffixes
| suffix | definition |
|---|---|
| ac, al, ar, ary, eal, ial, ic, ous | pertaing to |
| agra | excessive pain |
| algia | pain |
| apheresis | removal |
| ase | enzyme |
| asthenia | weakness |
| atresia | absence of a normal body opening; occlusion closure |
| capnia | carbon dioxide |
| cele | hernia; protrusion |
| centesis | surgical punture to aspirate fluid |
| cidal | killing |
| clasia, clasis, clast | break |
| clysis | irrigating; washing |
| coccus (pl. cocci) | berry shaped (a form of bacterium) |
| crine | separate; secrete |
| crit | to separate |
| cyte | cell |
| desis | surgical fixation; fusion |
| drome | run; running |
| ectasis | stretching out; dilatation; expansion |
| ectomy | excision or surgical removal |
| ectopia | displacement |
| emesis | vomiting |
| emia | blood condition |
| er, ician | one who |
| esis, iasis | condition |
| gen | substance or agent that produces or causes |
| genesis | origin; cause |
| genic | producing; origibating; causing |
| gram | record; x-ray film |
| graph | instrument used to record |
| graphy | process of recording; x-ray filming |
| ia | condition of diseased or abnormal state |
| iatry | physician; treatment |
| ictal | seizure; attack |
| ism | state of |
| itis | inflammation |
| lepsy | seizure |
| lysis | loosening; dissolution; separating |
| lytic | destroy; reduce |
| malacia | softening |
| mania | madness; insane desire |
| megaly | enlargement |
| meter | instrument used to measure |
| metry | measurement |
| morph | form; shape |
| odia | smell |
| odynia | pain |
| oid | resembling |
| ologist | one who studies & practices (specialist) |
| ology | study of |
| oma | tumor; swelling |
| opia | vision (condition) |
| opsy | to view |
| oorhagia | rapid flow of blood |
| orrhaphy | suturing; repairing |
| orrhea | low; excessive discharge |
| orrhexis | rupture |
| osis | abnormal condition (means increased when used with blood cell word roots) |
| ostomy | creation of an artifical opening |
| otomy | cut into or incision |
| oxia | oxygen |
| paresis | slighht paralysis |
| pathy | disease |
| penia | abnormal reduction in number |
| pepsia | digestion |
| pexy | surgical fixation; suspension |
| phagia | eating; swallowing |
| philia, phily | love |
| phobia | abnormal fear o or aversion to specific objects or things |
| phonia | sound or voice |
| phoria | feeling |
| physis | growth |
| plasia | formation; development; a growth |
| plasm | growth; substance; formation |
| plasty | plastic or surgical repair |
| plegia | paralysis |
| pnea | breathing |
| poiesis | formation |
| porosis | passage |
| prandial | meal |
| praxia | in front of; before |
| ptosis | dropping; sagging; prolapse |
| ptysis | spitting |
| salpinx | falloian tube |
| sarcoma | malignant tumor |
| schisis | split; fissure |
| sclerosis | hardening |
| scope | instrument used for visual examination |
| scopy, scopic | visual examination |
| sepsis | infection |
| sis | state of |
| spasm | sudden involuntary muscle contraction |
| stasis | control; stop |
| stalsis | contraction |
| st | constriction; narrowing |
| thorax | chest |
| tocia | birth; labor |
| tome | instrument used to cut |
| tripsy | surgical crushing |
| trophy | nourishment |
| ule | little |
| uria | urine; urination |
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