Question | Answer |
-aliga | pain |
-arche | beginning |
-ase | enzyme |
-asthenia | weakness |
-capinia | carbon dioxide |
-cele | hernia;protrusion,swelling |
-centesis | puncture |
-cide | to kill |
-clasis | break, fracture |
-clysis | injection |
-crit | to seperate |
-extasis | dialation;straching,expansion |
-ectomy | removal;excision |
-emesis | vomiting |
-emia | blood |
-gen | born or producing |
-genesis,genic | producing, forming, origin |
-cusis | hearing |
-cyesis | pregnancy |
-desis | fixation, binding (of a bone or joint) |
-dynia | pain |
-cyte | cell |
-glia | glue |
-globin | protein |
-gnosis | knowledge |
-ia | condition |
-iasis | abnormal condition ( usually produced by something specific) |
-ic | pertaning to |
-icle | small |
-ist | one who specializes |
-itis | inflammation |
-kenisis | movement, motion |
-lith | stone, calculus |
-logist | specalist in the study of |
-logy | study of |
-lysis | breaking up; seperation, distruction |
-malacia | softening |
-mania | madness |
-megaly | enlargement |
-metry | act of measuring |
-meter | insturment used for measuring |
-mnesia | memory |
-oid | like;resembling |
-ole | small |
-oma | tumor |
-opia | vision |
-osis | abnormal ( morbid) condition, increase (used primarily with blood cells) |
-para | to bear (offspring) |
-paresis | partial parallysis |
-pathy | disease, emotion |
-penia | deficency, disease |
-pexy | fixation; to put in place (of an organ) |
-phagia | eat, swallow |
-phasia | speech |
-philia | attraction for |
-phobia | fear of |
-phonia | sound, voice |
-plasia | development;formation, growth |
-plasm | formation |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-plegia | paralysis |
-pnea | breathing |
-poiesis | formation; production |
-ptosis | drooping, prolapse, downward displacement |
-ptysis | spitting |
-rrhage -rrhagia | burst forth |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-rrhea | flow discharge |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-sclerosis | hardening |
-scope | insturment used for visual examination |
-scopy | visual inspection |
-spasm | involuntary contraction, twitching |
-stasis | stopping, control, standing still |
-stenosis | stricture, narrowing |
-stomy | new opening, forming an opening |
-therapy | treatment |
-tome | insturment used for cutting |
-tomy | incision, cut into |
-toxic | poison |
-tripsy | crushing |
-trophy | nourishment;development |
-ula | small |
-ule | small |
-version | to turn |
-y | process |
-graph | insturment used for recording |
-graphy | process of recording |
-gram | record, a writing |