FINAL Suffixes
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| -ac | pertaining to
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| -al | pertaining to
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| -algesia | pain, sensitivity
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| -algia | pain
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| -an | pertaining to
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| -apheresis | removal, carry away
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| -ar | pertaining to
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| -arche | beginning
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| -ary | pertaining to
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| -asthenia | weakness
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| -blast | immature, embryonic
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| -capnia | carbon dioxide
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| -cele | hernia, protrusion
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| -centesis | puncture to withdraw fluid
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| -cise | cut
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| -clasia | to surgically break
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| -crine | to secrete
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| -cusis | hearing
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| -cyesis | state of pregnancy
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| -cyte | cell
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| -cytosis | more than the normal number of cells
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| -derma | skin
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| -desis | stabilize, fuse
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| -dipsia | thirst
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| -dynia | pain
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| -eal | pertaining to
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| -ectasia | dilation
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| -ectasis | dilation
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| -ectomy | surgical removal, excision
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| -emesis | vomit
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| -emia | blood condition
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| -esthesia | feeling, sensation
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| -gen | that which produces
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| -genesis | produces, generates
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| -genic | producing, produced by
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| -globin | protein
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| -globulin | protein
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| -gram | record, picture
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| -graph | instrument for recording
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| -graphy | process of recording
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| -gravida | pregnancy
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| -ia | state, condition
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| -iac | pertaining to
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| -iasis | abnormal condition
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| -iatrist | physician
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| -ic | pertaining to
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| -ical | pertaining to
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| -ile | pertaining to
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| -ior | pertaining to
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| -ism | state of
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| -itis | inflammation
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| -kinesia | movement
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| -listhesis | slipping
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| -lith | stone
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| -lithiasis | condition of stones
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| -logist | one who studies
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| -logy | study of
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| -lucent | to shine through
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| -lysis | destruction
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| -malacia | abnormal softening
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| -mania | excessive excitement
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| -manometer | instrument to measure pressure
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| -megaly | enlargement, large
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| -meter | instrument for measuring
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| -metrist | one who measures
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| -metry | process of measuring
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| -ole | small
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| -oma | tumor, mass
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| -opaque | nontransparent
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| -opia | vision
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| -opsy | view of
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| -orexia | appetite
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| -ory | pertaining to
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| -ose | pertaining to
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| -osis | abnormal condition
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| -osmia | small
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| -ostomy | surgically create an opening
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| -otia | ear condition
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| -otomy | cutting into, incision
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| -ous | pertaining to
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| -para | to bear (offspring)
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| -paresis | weakness
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| -partum | childbirth
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| -pathy | disease
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| -penia | abnormal decrease, too few
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| -pepsia | digestion
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| -pexy | surgical fixation
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| -phage | eat, swallow
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| -phagia | eat, swallow
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| -phasia | speech
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| -phil | attracted to
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| -philia | to have an attraction for
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| -phobia | irrational fear
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| -phonia | voice
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| -phoresis | carrying
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| -plasia | growth, formation, development
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| -plasm | growth,formation, development
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| -plasty | surgical repair
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| -plegia | paralysis
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| -pnea | breathing
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| -poiesis | formation
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| -porosis | porous
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| -prandial | pertaining to a meal
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| -ptosis | drooping
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| -ptysis | spitting
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| -rrhage | excessive, abnormal flow
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| -rrhaphy | suture
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| -rrhea | discharge, flow
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| -rrhexis | rupture
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| -salpinx | fallopian tube
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| -sclerosis | hardening
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| -scope | instrument for viewing
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| -scopy | process of visually examining
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| -spermia | sperm
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| -stasis | standing still
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| -stenosis | narrowing
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| -taxia | muscular coordination
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| -tension | pressure
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| -therapy | treatment
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| -thorax | chest
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| -tic | pertaining to
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| -tocia | labor, childbirth
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| -tome | instrument used to cut
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| -tonia | tone
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| -tripsy | surgical crushing
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| -trophy | nourishment, development
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| -tropia | to turn
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| -tropin | stimulate
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| -ule | small
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| -uria | condition of the urine
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