suffixes
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| -itis | inflammation
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| -megaly | enlargement
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| -gen | substance or agent that produces or causes
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| -genic | originating, producing, causing
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| -genesis | orign, cause
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| -ad | toward
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| -ior | pertaining to
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| -ab | away
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| -a | suffix that has no meaning
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| -coccus (-cocci, plural) | berry shaped (form of bacterium)
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| -malacia | softening
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| -phagia | eating, swallowing
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| -tome | instrument used for cutting
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| -algia | pain
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| -ectomy | cut out, removal, excision
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| -emia | blood condition
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| -globin | protein
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| -gram | record
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| -ia | condition
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| -ism | condition, process
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| -opsy | to view
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| -scope | instrument to visually examine
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| -scopy | process of visual examination
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| -stomy | artificial opening
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| -tomy | cut in, incision
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| -rrhea | flow or discharge
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| -rrhage, -rrhagia | sudden burst forth of blood
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| -sclerosis | hardening
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| -uria | condtion of urin
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| -eal | pertaining to
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| -ar, -ary | pertaining to
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| -centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid
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| -graphy | process of recording
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| -lysis | breakdown, separation, destruction
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| -plasty | surgical repair, surgical correction
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| -therapy | treatment
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| al, ic, ous, ar, ary, eal, ior | pertaining to
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| -cyte | cell
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| -logist | one who studies or treats
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| -logy | study of
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| -oid | resembling
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| -oma | tumor, swelling
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| -osis | abnormal condition
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| -pathy | disease
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| -plasia | condition of formation, development, growth
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| -plasm | growth, substance, formation
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| -sis | state of
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| -stasis | control, stop,standing
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| -cele | hernia or protrusion
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| -ectasis | stretching out, dilation, expansion
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| -meter | instrument used to measure
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| -metry | measurement
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| -pexy | surgical fixation
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| -pnea | breathing
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| -spasm | sudden, involuntary muscle contraction
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| -stenosis | constriction or narrowing
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| -thorax | chest
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| -iasis | condition
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| -esis | condition
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| -uria | urine, urination
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| -tripsy | surgical crushing
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| -trophy | nourishment, development
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| -malacia | softening
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| -ptosis | drooping, sagging, prolapse
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| -rrhexis | rupture
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| -ism | state of
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| -ial | pertaining to
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| -atresia | absence of normal body opening, occlusion, closure,
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| -salpinx | fallopian tube
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