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Medical Terminology 2011- Suffixes
The following games will allow you to practice Medical Terminology. These games are to be used to support class lectures and personal study. They are not a substitute.
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| Word root | the core of a medical word |
| Combining form | connects 2 elements with a vowel |
| Suffix | word element at the end of a word that changes the meaning |
| Prefix | word element attached to the beginning of a word or root |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -phobia | fear |
| -logy | study of |
| -centesis | surgical puncture |
| -clasis | to break, surgical fracture |
| -desis | binding, fixation of bone or joint |
| -ectomy | excision, removal |
| -lysis | separation, loosening, breaking |
| -pexy | fixation of an organ |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -stomy | forming an opening |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -tomy | incision |
| -tripsy | crushing |
| -gram | record, writing |
| -graph | instrument for recording |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -meter | instument for measuring |
| -scope | instrument for examining |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| -algia | pain |
| -cele | hernia, swelling |
| -ectasis | dilation, expansion |
| -edema | swelling |
| -lith | stone, calculus |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -gen | forming, producing, origin |
| -iasis | abnormal condition, produced by something |
| -malacia | softening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -oma | tumor |
| -osis | abnormal condition, increase |
| -pathy | disease |
| -penia | decrease, deficiency |
| -phagia | eating, swallowing |
| -phasia | speech |
| -plasia | formation, growth |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -rrhage | bursting of |
| -rrhea | discharge, flow |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction |
| -stenosis | narrowing |
| -toxic | poison |
| -trophy | nourishment, development |
| -ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -ic, -ine, -ive, -ous | pertaining to |
| -ation | a process, being or having |
| -ion | action, condition |
| -ia | condition, state, thing |
| -ism | process, disease from a specific cause |
| -iatry | medical treatment |
| -ist | specialist |
| -therapy | treatment |
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