medical terminology suffixes
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| -a is a noun | (a is a noun ending
cyanoderma)
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| -ac | pertaining to
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| -ad | toward, increase
caudad (toward the tail or end of the body)
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| -al | pertaining
example: duodenal pertaining to
the duodenum
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| -algia | pain
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| -ar | pertaining to:
example- ventricular pertaining to ventricle
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| -ary | -pertaining to :
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| -ate | something that.....
hemolysate (something that results from hemolysis)
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| -blast | embryonic stage of development;
example: leukoblast (immature white blood cell)
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| -cele | swelling or herniation
example: cystocele (herniation or protusion through the wall of the vagina)
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| centesis | surgical puncture: example
amniocentesis
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| -cide | to kill or destroy
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| -clasis | crushing or breaking up
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| cyte | cell
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| -desis | binding or surgical fusion
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| dynia | pain
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| -e | e is a noun ending
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| -eal | pertaining to:
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| -ectasia | stretching or dilation
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| -ectomy | surgical removal
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| -emia | blood condition
hyperglycemia (blood condition)
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| -er | one who
example: radiographer
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| -esis | condition of: example:
enuresis
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| -gen | that which generates:
example: gylcogen (that which generates suguar)
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| -genesis | generating:formation:
lithogenesis-formation of stones
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| -genic | pertaining to, formation, producing
example: lithgenic- pertaing to the formation of stones
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| -gram | record or picture
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| -graph | an instrument used to record:
electrocardiogram
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| -graphy | process of recording:
example: electrocardiography
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| -gravida | pregnancy
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| -ia | condition (ia is a noun ending)
ending: paraplegia
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| -ian | specialist in a field of study
geriatrician
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| -iatric(s) | relating to medicine
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| -iatrician | one who treats: a physican
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| -iatrist | ne who treats: a physician
psychiatrist (specialist in the study,treatment,and prevention of mental illness
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| -iatry | medical treatment, medical profession
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| -ic | pertaining to: example: thoracic
pertaining to the thorax
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| -ical | pertaining to:(ical is the combination of ic+al) example:
neurological (pertaining to the study of nerves
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| -ician | specialist in the field of study
example: obstetrician
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| -ile | pertaining to;capable
example: febrile (pertaining to fever).
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| -ion | action;process example: conduction(process in which heat is transferred from on e substance to another.
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| -ism | condition: example (hirsutism, condition of excessive body hair in a masculine distribution pattern.
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| -ist | practitioner, ie; pharmacist
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| -itis | inflammation- ie: appendicitis
inflammation of the appendix
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| -ize | to make; to treat or to combine with
example:anesthetize
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| -lepsy | seizure, attack, ,example: narcolepsy
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| -lith | stone
example: rhinolith (stone or calculus in the nose.
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| -lithiasis | presence of formation of stones
example: cholelithiasis
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| -logy | the study of:
biology study of life.
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| -logist | one who specializes, the study of;
example; biologist.
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| -lysis | destruction or detachment
example:dialysis
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| -lytic | destruction:
example: keratolytic destruction of
hardened skin
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| -mania | a mental disorder; a "madness"
example: megalomania ( mental disorder characterized by delusions of grandeur
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| -megaly | cardiomegaly: enlargement of the heart
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| -meter | an instrument used to measure
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| -metry | the process of measuring;
example: pelvimetry - process of measuring dimensions of the pelvis
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| -oid | resembling; example: mucoid (resembling mucus
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| -ole | small or little
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| -oma | tumor
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| -opia | visual condition
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| -opsia | visual condition
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| -opsy | process of viewing
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| -ory | pertaining to: characterized by,
ie; auditory pertaining to hearing
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| -osis | condition
example: cyanosis (condition of blueness)
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| -pathy | disease
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| -penia | decrease in; deficiency
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| -pexy | surgical fixation:
example: colpopexy (surgical fixation
of a relaxed vaginal wall)
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| -philia | attracted to-
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| -phobia | abnormal fear
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| -plasia | formation or development;
ie: hyperplasia (excessive formation or development.
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| -plasty | surgical repair;
example: rhinoplasty (surgical repair of the nose in which the structure of the nose is changed.
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| -plegia | paralysis
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| -pnea | breathing; ie: apnea
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| -ptosis | drooping or prolapse
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| -rragia | excessive flow or discharge;
example: gastorrhagia , bursting forth of blood through the stomach
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| -rrhaphy | suturing
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| -rrhea | discharge, flow: diarrhea
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| -rrhexis | rupture
example: arteriorhexis (rupture of an artery.)
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| -scope | an instrument used to view
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| -scopy | the processes of viewing with a scope
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| -stasis | stopping or controlling;
example(s): hemostasis stopping or controlling the flow of blood)
venostasis: (the trapping or "standing still" of blood in the extremity.
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| -stomy | the surgical creation of a new
opening
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| -tomy | -incision into :
example : phlebotomy (incision into a vein.
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| -tripsy | intentional crushing;
example: lithotripsy (crushing of a stone in the bladder; maybe controlled by ultrasound or by laser.
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