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Med Terms Suffixes
Phlebotomy medical terms Suffixes (end of word)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -able | capable of, able to |
| -ac | pertaining to |
| -ago | attack, diseased state or condition |
| -agra | excessive pain, seizure, attack of severe pain |
| -aise | comfort, ease |
| -al | pertaining to |
| -algesic | painful |
| -ar | pertaining to |
| -arche | beginning |
| -ary | pertaining to |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -blast | embryonic, immature |
| -cele | tumor, cyst, hernia |
| -centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid |
| -cidal | pertaining to death |
| -cide | causing death |
| -clasis, -clast | break |
| -clysis | irrigation, washing |
| -crasisa | a mixture or blending |
| -crit | separate |
| -cytic | pertaining to a cell |
| -cytosis | condition of cells |
| -dema | swelling (fluid) |
| -desis | bind, tie together, surgical fixation of bone or joint |
| -duct | opening |
| -dynia | pain |
| -eal | pertaining to |
| -ectasia, -ectasis | stretching, dilation, enlargement |
| -ectomy | surgical removal, cutting out, excision |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -emia | blood, blood condition |
| -esis | state or abnormal condition |
| -esthesia | sensation or felling |
| -exia, -exis | condition |
| -ferent | carrying |
| -form | form, figure, shape |
| -fuge | to drive away |
| -gene | production, origin, formation |
| -genesis, [genic | producing, forming |
| -genous | producing |
| -grade | go |
| -gram | tracing, picture, record |
| -graph | instrument for recording, picture |
| -graphy | process of recording a picture or record |
| -ia | state or condition |
| -iac | pertaining to |
| -iasis | condition, pathologic state, abnormal condition |
| -ible | able to be, capable of being |
| -ic | pertaining to |
| -ific | making, producing |
| -iform | shaped or formed like, resembling |
| -igo | attack, diseased condition |
| -ile | capable of (being), able to, pertaining to |
| -ism | state of, condition |
| -istis, -itis | inflammation |
| -ium | structure, tissue |
| -kinesis | motion |
| -lith | stone, calculus |
| -lithiasis | presence of stones |
| -lysis | setting free, break down, separation, destruction |
| -lyst | agent that causes lysis or loosening |
| -lytic | reduce, destroy |
| -mania | obsessive, preoccupation |
| -magaly | large, great, extreme, enlargement |
| -meter | measure |
| -necrosis | death of tissue |
| -oid | like, resembling |
| -ologist | specialist |
| -ology | the science or study of |
| -oma | tumor, neoplasm |
| -osis | disease, an abnormal condition |
| -ostomosis, -ostomy | surgically creating a mouth or opening |
| -otomy | cutting, surgical incision |
| -ous | pertaining to |
| -paresis | partial or incomplete paralysis |
| -pathic | pertaining to, affected by disease |
| -penia | lack, deficiency, too few |
| -pexy | surgical fixtation, to put in place |
| -phage | one that eats, a cell that destroys |
| -phagia | eating, swelling |
| -phasia | speak or speech |
| -pheresis | removal |
| -phoresis | carrying, transmission |
| -phoria | to bear, carry, feeling, mental state |
| -phylactic | protective, preventive |
| -phylaxis | protection |
| -physis | to grow |
| -plasia | formaion, development, growth |
| -plasm | formative material of cells |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -plegia | stroke, paralysis, palsy |
| -plegic | paralysis, one affected with paralysis |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -poiesis | formation |
| -porosis | passage, porous condition |
| -praxia | action, condition concerning the performance of movements |
| -ptosis | drooping, sagging, prolapse, dropping down |
| -ptsis | spitting |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | bursting forth |
| -rrhapy | suturing, stitching |
| -rrhea | flow, discharge |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -sarcoma | tumor, cancer |
| -scope | instrument for visual examination |
| -scopic | pertaining to visual examination |
| -scopy | see, visual examination |
| -stalsis | contraction |
| -statis | stopping, controlling |
| -stenosis | narrowing, tightening, stricture of a duct or canal |
| -stomosis, stomy | furnish with a mouth or outlet, new opening |
| -tic | pertaining to |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -tomy | cutting, incision |
| -tripsy | crushing stone |
| -tropic | having an affinity for, turning toward |
| -uresis | urination |
| -uria | urination, urine |
| -us | thing |
| -version | to turn |
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