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Nurs 226 Med-term 5
Intro to Professional Nursing: Medical Terminology (common suffixes)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -a | Change word to a noun (um...right) |
| -algia | Pain (nostalgia...depending your definition) |
| -blast | Immature, embryonic (osteoblast: immature bone cell) |
| -cele | Hernia, protrusion (cystocele: protrusion of bladder) |
| -cide | Kill (scottycide: to kill scotty) |
| -cise | Cut (Incision: not quite "-cise" but you get the idea) |
| -cle | Small (vesicle: small blister) |
| -dynia | Pain (cardiodynia: heart pain) |
| -ectasis | Dilation (bronchiectasis: dilated bronchi) |
| -ectopia | Displacement (think, ectopic pregnancy) |
| -emia | Blood Condition (hypoxemia: lack of O2 in the blood) |
| -er | One who (hipster: one who presents with hip-ness) |
| -gen | That which produces (mutagen: produces mutations) |
| -genic | Producing (carcinogenic: cancer producing) |
| -ia | State, condition (insomnia: state or condition of most nursing students) |
| -iasis | Abnormal condition (I remember this by thinking "as is," like when you're buying a car in abnormal condition) |
| -iatric | Medicine, physician (pediatric) |
| -ion | Process (decision: process of deciding) |
| -ism | State of (scottism: state of having no sleep) |
| -coccus | Spherical |
| -cyte | Cell (leukocyte: WBC) |
| -genesis | Produces, generates (Osteogenesis: produces bone) |
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