Suffixes
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| Phobia | Fear
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| Plasia | Abnormal Formation
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| Plasty | Surgical Repair
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| Plegia | Paralysis
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| Pnea | Breath, Respiration
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| Poiesis | Producing
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| Porosis | Porous Condition
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| Ptosis | Downward displacement
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| Rrhage | Flowing Forth
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| Rrhaphy | Suture
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| Rrhea | Discharge
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| Rrhexix | Rupture
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| Sclerosis | Hardness
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| Scope | Device for viewing
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| Scopy | Act of viewing
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| Spasm | Muscular contraction
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| Stasis | Level; Unchanging
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| Stenosis | Narrowed; Blocked
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| Stomy | Permanent opening
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| Tome | Instrument for cutting
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| Tomy | Incision
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| Tripsy | Crushing
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| Cele | Protrusion, hernia
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| Centesis | Surgical puncture
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| Cyte | Cell
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| Desis | Surgical binding
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| Dynia, Algia | Pain
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| Ectasis, Ectasia | Expansion, dialation
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| Ectomy | Surgical removal
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| Edema | Excessive fluid in intracellular tissues
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| Emesis | Vomitting
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| Emia | Blood
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| Genic | Origin, producing
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| Gram | Written or pictorial record
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| Graph | Device for graphic or pictorial recording
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| Graphy | Act of graphic or pictorial recording
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| Ian, Iatrist, Ist, Logist, Logy, Ics, Iatry, Iatrics | Specialty of, study of, practice of
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| Iasis | Converts suffix to a noun indication a condition
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| Ism | A condition of; a process; or a state of
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| Itis | Inflammation
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| Lith | Stone, calculus, calcification
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| Lysis | Disintegration
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| Malacia | Softening
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| Megaly | Enlargement
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| Meter | Device for Measuring
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| Oid | Like
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| Oma | Tumor
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| Opsy | Visual Examination
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| Osis | Abnormal condition
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| Pathy | Disease
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| Penia | Reduction of size or quantity
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| Pexy | Surgical fixation
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| Kinesia | Movement
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| Physis | To grow
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| Paresis | Partial or incomplete paralysis; Weakness/loss of movement
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| Mania | "Morbid attraction to" or "impulse toward"
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| Mnesia | Memory
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| Oid | Like
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| Phasia | Speech
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| Ectasis | Dilation
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| Emia | Blood
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