Suffixes
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| Coccyx | Tailbone
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| Pharnyx | Throat
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| Phalanx | Finger or Toe
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| To make combining forms for parts of the body ending in X | substitue g for x
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| Words ending in -us commonly form their pleural by dropping -us and adding | -i
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| nucleus (pleural) | nuclei
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| bonchus (pleural) | bronchi
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| thrombus (pleural) | thrombi
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| adomin/o | abdominal
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| aden/o | gland
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| angi/o | vessel
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| arteri/o | artery
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| arthr/o | joint
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| axill/o | armpit
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| bronch/o | bronchial tubes
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| caran/o | cancer
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| chem/o | chemical
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| chron/o | time
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| col/o | colon (lg. intestine)
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| cyst/o | urinary bladder
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| enncephal/o | brain
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| mamm/o | breast
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| mast/o | breast
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| my/o | muscle
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| necr/o | death
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| neur/o | nerves
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| oste/o | bone
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| ot/o | ear
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| path/o | disease
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| pneumon/o | lungs
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| pulmon/o | lungs
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| rect/o | rectum
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| ren/o | kidney
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| thromb/o | clot
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| trache/o | trachea
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| ven/o | vein
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| -algia | pain
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| -centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid
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| -ectomy | excission or removal
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| -emia | blood condition
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| -genesis | condition of, producing, forming
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| -gram | record
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| -itis | inflammation of
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| -logy | study of
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| -opsy | to view
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| -osis | condition, usually abnormal
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| -pathy | disease condition
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| -graph | process of recording
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| -lysis | breakdown, destruction
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| -megaly | enlargement
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| -oma | tumor, mass
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| -phobia | fear
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| -plasty | surgical repair
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| -sclerosis | hardening
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| -scope | instrument used for visual exam
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| -scopy | process of visual exam
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| -stasis | stopping, controlling
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| -er | one who
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| -ia | condition
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| -ist | condition
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| -y | specialist
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| -stomy | opening to form a mouth (stoma)
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| -therapy | treatment
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| -tomy | incision, to cut into
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| hernia | protrusion of organ or muscular wall of an organ through the cavity that contains it
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| Hiatal | stomach into diaphragm
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| Inguinal | intestines into lower abdomen
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| Rectocele | Rectum into vagina
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| Omphalocele | Infant (intestines out of belly button)
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| Cystocele | Bladder into vagina
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| Anemia | no blood
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| Aplastic | severe type, bone marrow fails to produce
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| a | no
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| plas/o | formation
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