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