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Medical Terminology Suffixes
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| -ac | Pertaining To |
| -agon | assemble, gather together |
| -Al | Pertaining To |
| -algia | Pain |
| -Ar, Ary | Pertaining To |
| -arche | beginning |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -blast | embryonic cell |
| -cele | hernia |
| -Centesis | Surgical Puncture To Remove Fluid |
| -chezia | Defecation, elimination of wastes |
| -clast | to break |
| -Coccus | Berry-shaped Bacterium |
| -cyesis | pregnancy |
| -Cyte | Cell |
| -Dynia | Pain |
| -eal | pertaining to |
| -ectasis, -ectasia | stretching, dilation, widening |
| -ectomy | Removal, resection, excision |
| -ema | condition. |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -er | One Who |
| -esis | condition |
| -flexion | flexible |
| -gen | Substance that produces |
| -genesis | producing; forming |
| -Genic | Produced by or in |
| -gram | record |
| -Graph | Instrument For Recording |
| -Graphy | Process Of Recording |
| -gravida | pregnancy |
| -ia | Condition |
| -iac | pertaining to |
| -iasis | abnormal condition |
| -Ic, Ical | Pertaining To |
| -in, -ine | a substance |
| -ion | Process |
| -ior | pertaining to |
| -ism | process, condition |
| -ist | Specialist |
| -itis | Inflammation |
| -kinesis, -kinesia | movement |
| -lepsy | seizure |
| -listhesis | slipping |
| -lithiasis | condition of stones |
| -lithotomy | incision for removal of a stone |
| -logy | Process of Study |
| -lysis | Breakdown, destruction |
| -lytic | To reduce, destroy, breakdown |
| -malacia | softening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -Oid | Resembling |
| -ole | little; small |
| -oma | Tumor, mass, Swelling |
| -one | hormone |
| -opia | vision |
| -opsia | vision |
| -opsy | Process of viewing |
| -orexia | appetite |
| -ose | pertaining to, full of |
| -osis | Condition, Usually abnormal |
| -osmia | smell |
| -Ous | Pertaining To |
| -paresis | slight paralysis |
| -pareunia | sexual intercourse |
| -pathy | Disease condition |
| -Penia | Deficiency |
| -pepsia | Digestion eating, |
| -pexy | fixation, put in place |
| -phagia | swallowing |
| -phasia | speech |
| -Phobia | Fear |
| -physis | to grow |
| -plasia | Development formation growth |
| -plasm | formation |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -poietin | substance that forms |
| -porosis | pore, passage |
| -prandial | meal |
| -praxia | action |
| -ptosis | droop, sag, prolapse, protrude |
| -ptysis | spitting |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | bursting forth |
| -rrhaphy | suture (repair) |
| -rrhea | flow; discharge |
| -sclerosis | hardening |
| -scope | Instrument to visually examine |
| -scopy | Process of visually examining (with an endoscope) |
| -sis | State of, condition |
| -somes | bodies |
| -spasm | Sudden, involuntary contraction |
| -sphyxia | pulse |
| -stasis | To stop, control |
| -stenosis | Tightening, stricture, narrowing |
| -sthenia | strength |
| -stomy | new opening (to form a mouth) |
| -Therapy | Treatment (Tx) |
| -thorax | pleural cavity, chest |
| -Tic | Pertaining To |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -tomy | process of cutting |
| -tresia | opening |
| -tripsy | to crush |
| -Trophy | Development, Nourishment |
| -tropia | to turn |
| -tropin | stimulating the function of |
| -type | picture, classification |
| -Ule | Little, Small |
| -Um, Ium | Structure, Tissue |
| -uria | urination, urine condition |
| -Us | Structure, Substance |
| -y | Process, condition |
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