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Med. Term. Suffixes to know for the Utah State Benchmark test for MA's

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Suffixes
Meanings
-iasis   abnormal condition (produced by something specified)  
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-osis   abnormal condition, increase (used primarily with blood cells)  
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-metry   act of measuring  
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-version   act of turning  
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-orexia   appetite  
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-phil   attraction to  
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-philia   attraction for  
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-arche   beginning  
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-emia   blood (condition)  
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-phoresis   borne, carried  
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-clasis   break, refracture  
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-pnea   breathing  
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-para   bring forth (live births)  
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-rrhage   bursting forth (of)  
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-rrhagia   bursting forth (of)  
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-capnia   carbon dioxide  
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-cyte   cell  
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-thorax   chest  
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-tocia   childbirth, labor  
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-ia   condition  
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-ism   condition  
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-y   condition  
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-tripsy   crushing  
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-penia   decrease, deficiency  
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-trophy   development, nourishment  
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-pepsia   digestion  
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-ectasis   dilation, expansion  
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-pathy   disease  
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-ptosis   downward displacement, prolapse, falling, dropping  
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-phagia   eating, swallowing  
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-blast   embryonic cellular development  
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-megaly   enlargement  
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-ectomy   excision, removal  
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-salpinx   fallopian tubes, eustachian tubes, oviducts, uterine tubes  
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-phobia   fear  
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-esthesia   feeling, sensation  
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-desis   fixation of a bone or joint, binding of (a bone or joint)  
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-pexy   fixation of an organ  
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-rrhea   flow, discharge  
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-stomy   forming a new opening  
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-plasia   formation, growth  
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-plasm   formation, growth  
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-glia   glue  
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--physis   growth  
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-cusis   hearing  
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-cele   hernia, swelling  
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-tomy   incision, cut into  
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-itis   inflamation  
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-ad   in the direction of  
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-tome   instrument to cut  
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-meter   instrument for measuring  
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-graph   instrument for recording  
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-scope   instrument to view  
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-spasm   involuntary contraction, twitching  
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-gnosis   knowing  
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-prandial   meal  
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-iatrics   medicine, medical profession, physicians  
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-stenosis   narrowing stricture  
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-ia   nound ending  
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-algesia   pain  
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-algia   pain  
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-dynia   pain  
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-plegia   paralysis  
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-paresis   partial paralysis  
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-ac   pertaining to  
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-al   pertaining to  
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-ar   pertaining to  
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-ary   pertaining to  
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-eal   pertaining to  
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-ic   pertaining to  
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-ical   pertaining to  
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-ory   pertaining to  
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-ous   pertaining to  
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-tic   pertaining to  
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-porosis   porous  
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-cyesis   pregnancy  
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-gravida   pregnancy, pregnant woman  
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-toxic   poison  
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-graphy   process of recording  
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-gen   producing, forming  
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-genesis   producing, forming  
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-poiesis   production, formation  
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-ptosis   prolapse  
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-globin   protein  
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-centesis   puncture  
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-gram   record  
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-oid   resembling  
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-rrhexis   rupture  
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-crine   secrete  
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-lepsy   seizure  
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-lysis   separate, loosen, destroy  
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-derma   skin  
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-icle   small  
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-ole   small  
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-ula   small  
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-ule   small  
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-osmia   smell  
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-malacia   softening  
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-ist   specialist  
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-logist   specialist in the study of  
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-phasia   speech  
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-ptysis   spitting  
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-schisis   splitting, a  
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-stasis   standing still (of)  
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-tropin   stimulate  
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-lith   stone, calculus  
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-stenosis   stricture, narrowing  
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-logy   study of  
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-centesis   surgical puncture  
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-plasty   surgical repair  
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-rrhaphy   suture  
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-edema   swelling  
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-phagia   swallow, eat  
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-dipsia   thirst  
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-para   to bear (offspring)  
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-therapy   treatment  
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-iatry   treatment, medicine  
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-oma   tumor  
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-tropia   turning  
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-uria   urine, urination  
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-opia   vision  
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-opsia   vision  
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-scopy   visual examination  
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-phonia   voice  
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-emesis   vomiting  
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