suffixes for medical terminalogy
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| -algia | Pain, painful condition
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| -cele | Hernia, tumor, swelling
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| -centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid
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| -cidal | pertaing to killing
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| -constriction | narrowing
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| -dipsia | thirst
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| -ectomy | surgical removal, cutting out, excision
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| -emesis | vomiting
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| -emia | blood, blood condition
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| -genic, -genesis | creation, reproduction, origin, beginning
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| -gram | A picture or record
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| -graph | A picture or record, machine for recording
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| -graphy | Process of producing a picture or record
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| -ia, -iasis | Abnormal condition, disease
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| -ist | A person who practices, specialist
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| -itis | Inflammation
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| -kinesis | motion
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| -lith | Stone, calculus
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| -lithiasis | Presence of stones
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| -logy | Study of, science of
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| -lysis | Breakdown, separation, setting free, destructon, loosening
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| -lytic | To reduce, destroy
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| -megaly | Enlargement
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| -metry | To measure
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| -necrosis | Tissue death
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| -ologist | specialist
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| -ology | The science or study of
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| -oma | Tumor, neoplasm
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| -opaque | Obscure
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| -pathy | Disease
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| -opsia,-opsis, -opsy | Vision, to view
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| -osis | abnormal condition, disease
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| -ostomy | Surgically creating an opening
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| -otomy | Cutting surging incision
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| -paresi | Partial or incomplete paralysis
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| -penia | Deficiency, lack, too few
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| -phagia | Eating, swallowing, devouring
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| -phasia | Speak or speech
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| -plasty | Surgical repair
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| _plegia | Paralysis, stroke
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| -plegic | One affected with paralysis
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| -pepsia | Digest or digestion
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| -pnea | Breathing
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| -rrhage,-rrhagia | Bleeding, abnormal excessive fluid discharge
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| -rrhea | Flow or discharge
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| -sclerosis | Abnormal hardening
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| -scope | Instrument for visual examination
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| -scopy | Visual examination, act of examining or looking into
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| -sis | Abnormal condition, disease
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| -stasis, -static | Control, maintanence of a constant lvl
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| -stenosis | Abnormal narrowing
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| -tripsy | To crush
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| -uresis | Urination
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| -uria | Urination, urine
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| -sepsis | Infection
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| -ectopy | Displacement
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