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Ch 1 Suffixes
Medical Terminology Class, Chapter 1, Suffixes
Suffixes | Definitions |
---|---|
-ac | pertaining to |
-al | pertaining to |
-algia | pain |
-cyte | cell |
-ectomy | excision, removal |
-emia | blood condition |
-genic | pertaining to, producing, produced by, produced in |
-globin | protein |
-gram | record |
-ic | pertaining to |
-ical | pertaining to |
-ion | process |
-ist | specialist |
-itis | inflammation |
-logy | process of study |
-oma | tumor, mass, swelling |
-opsy | process of viewing |
-osis | condition, usually abnormal |
-pathy | disease condition |
-scope | instrument to visually examine |
-scopy | process of visually examining with an endoscope |
-sis | state of, condition |
-tomy | process of cutting, incision |
-y | process, condition |