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Review of Commonly Used Suffixes - Comprehensive

This exercise provides review and mastery of the most commonly used medical suffixes. By combining various prefixes and suffixes with root words you can make up your own diseases, conditions and diagnoses - that's what physicians do. Try it! These suffixes may appear on all future exams.
AB
-ableable to
-acpertaining to
-alpertaining to
-algiapain
-aryconnected with
-asiscondition of
-asiacondition of
-ectasisstretching
-ectasiastretching
-ectomyremoval of
-ektasiadilation of
-emiacondition of blood
-esiscondition of
-esthesiafeeling
-ferentto carry
-genicproduced from
-iacondition of
-ismcondition
-itis-inflammation
-lysisdissolving, splitting
-malaciasoftening
-omatumor
-opathydisease
-orypertaining to
-osefull of
-osiscondition of
-otomyto cut
-pathydisease
-plasiato form, to grow
-plastyshaping
-plegiastroke
-pneato breathe
-poiesisproduction of
-rrheadischarge
-rrhagiadischarge
-scopeinstrument used for viewing
-stasisstanding still
-stomyartificial opening
-tomycutting into
-trophystate relating to growing
-tropicinfluencing, to nourish
-uriaurine


Sande Tolino
Adjunct Faculty
Phoenix College
Phoenix, AZ

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