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medical terminology suffixes
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A | B |
tomy | to cut |
stomy | forming a new opening |
ectomy | to remove |
tome | instrument to cut |
centesis | puncture |
desis | binding or fixation |
pexy | fixation |
rrhaphy | suture |
plasty | surgical or plastic repair |
clasis | break, fracture |
lysis | separation, destruction |
tripsy | crushing |
algia, dynia | pain |
cele | hernia, swelling |
ectasis | dialation, expansion |
emesis | vomiting |
emia | blood |
gen, genesis | forming, origin |
gram | a written record |
graph | instrument for recording |
graphy | process of recording |
iasis | abnormal conditon |
itis | inflamation |
lith | stone |
logist | specialist in the study of |
malacia | softening |
megaly | enlargement |
meter | instrument for measuring |
metry | act of measuring |
oid | resembling |
oma | tumor |
osis | abnormal condition (means increase when used with blood cells) |
para | to bear offspring |
paresis | partial paralysis |
pathy | disease |
penia | decrease, lack of |
phagia | eating, swallowing |
philia | attraction for |
phobia | fear |
plasia | formation, growth |
plegia | paralysis |
poiesis | formation, production |
ptosis | prolapse, downward displacement |
rrhage, rrhagia | bursting forth |
rrhea | discharge, flow |
rrhexis | rupture |
scope | instrument to view |
scopy | visual examination |
spasm | contraction, twitching |
stasis | standing still |
stenosis | narrowing, stricture |
trophy | development, nourishment |
toxic | poison |
ole, icle, ula, ule | small, minute |
er | one who |
iatry | treatment, medicine |
ism | condition |
ist | specialist |
y | condition |
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