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Ch 4 Suffixes
Medical Terminology Class, Chapter 4 Suffixes
Suffixes | Definitions |
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-blast | embryonic, immature |
-crine | to secrete |
-cyesis | pregnancy |
-drome | to run |
-fusion | coming together, to pour |
-gen | substance that produces |
-lapse | to side, fall, sag |
-lysis | breakdown, separation, loosening |
-meter | to measure |
-mission | to send |
-or | one who |
-partum | birth, labor |
-phoria | to bear, carry; feeling (mental state) |
-physis | to grow |
-plasia | development, formation |
-plasm | structure or formation |
-pnea | breathing |
-ptosis | droop, sag, prolapse |
-rrhea | flow, discharge |
-stasis | stop, control |
-trophy | nourishment, development |