Suffixes for medical terminology
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| -ist, -er | one who
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| -iatrician | practitioner
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| -ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary, -ous, -eal, -ic, -ive, -tic, -ory, -logic, -logical | pertaining to
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| -logy | study or science of
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| -logist | one who studies; specialist
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| -iatry, -iatrics | medical profession or treatment
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| -centesis | surgical puncture to aspirate (draw fluid up by suction) or remove fluid
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| -tome | an instrument used for cutting
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| -tomy | incision (to cut into body tissue)
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| -ectomy | excision (surgical removal or cutting out)
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| -stomy | formation of an opening
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| -lysis | process of loosening, freeing, destroying
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| -pexy | surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)
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| -plasty | surgical repair
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| -rrhaphy | suture (uniting a wound by stitches)
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| -scopy | visual examination with lighted instrument
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| -tripsy | surgical crushing
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| -algia, -dynia | pain
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| -ectasia, -ectasis | dilatation, dilation
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| -emesis | vomiting
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| -emia | condition of blood
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| -ia, -iasis, -osis, -y | condition
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| -itis | inflammation
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| -lith | stone
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| -malacia | soft, softening
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| -mania | excessive preoccupation
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| -megaly | enlargement
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| -oid | resembling
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| -oma | tumor
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| -pathy | disease
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| -penia | deficiency
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| -rrhea | flow; discharge
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| -spasm | twitching; cramp
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| -cele | hernia
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| -edema | swelling
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| -phobia | abnormal fear
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| -ptosis | prolapse; sagging
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| -rrhage, -rrhagia | excessive bleeding
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| -rrhexis | rupture
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| -stasis | stopping; controlling
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| -able, -ible | capable of
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| -ase | enzyme
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| -eum, -ium | membrane
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| -ism | condition
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| -iac | one who suffers
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| -opia | vision
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| -ose | sugar
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| -gram | a record
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| -graph | instrument for recording
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| -graphy | process of recording
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| -kinesia, -kinesis | movement; motion
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| -lepsy | seizure
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| -lysin | that which destroys
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| -lytic | capable of destroying
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| -meter | instrument used to measure
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| -metry | process of measuring
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| -genic | produced by or in
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| -genesis | producing, forming
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| -phasia | speech; development
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| -plegia | paralysis
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| -schisis | split; cleft
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| -sclerosis | hard; hardening
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| -scope | instrument used for viewing
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| -trophy, -trophic | nutrition
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| -phagia, -phagic, -phagy | eating; ingesting; swallowing
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| -ation | action; process
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| -pod, -pody | foot
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| -poiesis | production
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| -poietin | substance that causes production
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| -uria | urine; urination
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| -asthenia | weakness
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| -sarcoma | malignant tumor arising form connective tissue
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| -ole, -ule | little
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| -emic | pertaining to blood
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| -esis | action, process, result of
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| -poietin | substance that causes production
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| -orexia | appetite
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| -pepsia | digestion
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| -triptor | instrument used for crushing
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| -pnea | breathing
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| -pneic | pertaining to breathing
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| -cidal | killing
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| -static | keeping stationary
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