Question | Answer |
ac, al, ar, ary,eal, ial, ic, ous | pertaining to |
agra | excessive pain |
algia | pain |
asthenia | weakness |
apheresis | removal |
ase | enzyme |
atresia | absence of a normal body opening; occlusion; closure |
capnia | carbon dioxide |
cele | hernia; protrusion |
centesis | surgigal puncture 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 |
dome | run; running |
ectasis | stretching out;dislatation; expansion |
ectomy | excision or surgical removal |
ectopia | displacement |
emesis | vomiting |
emia | blood condition |
er | one who |
esis, iasis | condition |
gen | substance or agent the produces of causes producing |
genic | originating; causing |
gram | record; x-ray film |
graph | instrument used to record |
graphy | process of recording; x-ray filming |
ia | condition of diseasedor abnormal state |
iatry | physician; treatment |
ician | one who |
ictal | seizure; attack |
ism | state of |
itis | inflammation |
lepsy | seizure |
lysis | loosening; dissolution; |
lytic | destroy; reduce |
malacia | sofening |
mainia | madness; insane |
megaly | enlargement |
meter | instrument used to measure |
metry | measurement |
morph | form; shape |
odia | smell |
odynia | pain |
oid | resembling |
ologist | one who studies and practices (specialist) |
oma | tumor; swelling |
opia | vision (condition) |
opsy | to view |
oorhagia | rapid flow of blood |
orrhaphy | suturing; repairing |
orrhea | flow ecessive discharge |
orrhexdis | rupture |
osis | increase when used with bloodcell word roots |
ostomy; stomy | creation of an opening |
otomy; tomy | cut into or incision |
oxia | oxygen |
paresis | slight paralysis |
pathy | disease |
penia | abnormal reduction in number |
pepsia | digestion |
pexy | surgical fixation; suspension |
phagia | eating; swallowing |
philia; phily | love |
phobi | abnormal fear of or aversionto specific objects or things |
phonia | sound or voice |
phorua | feeling |
physis | growth |
plasia | formation; developement;a growth |
plasm | growth; substance; formation |
plasty | surgical or plastic repair |
plegia | paralysis |
pnea | breathing |
poieisis | formation |
porosis | passage |
prandial | meal |
praxia | in front of; before |
ptosis | dropping; sagging; prolapse |
ptysis | spitting |
salpinx | fallopian tube |
sarcoma | malignant tumor |
schisis | split; fissure |
Sclerosis | hardening |
scope | instrument used for visualexamination |
scopy | visual examination |
scopic | visual examination |
sepsis | ifection |
sis | state of |
spasm | sudden involuntary muscle contration |
stasis | control; stop |
stalasis | contraction |
stenosis | constriction; narrowing |
thorax | chest |
tocia | labor; birth |
tome | instrument used to cut |
tripsy | surgical crushing |
trophy | nurishment |
ule | little |
uria | uring; urination |