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Medical term Suffixes
Question | Answer |
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-ad | toward |
-al | pertaining to |
-algia | pain |
-ar | pertaining to |
-asthenia | weakness |
-ate | having the form of |
-blast | embryonic cell |
-clasia | to break-surgical |
-clasis | to break - surgical fracture |
-clast | to break - surgical fracture |
-cure | care |
-cyte | cell |
-desis | binding |
-dynia | pain |
-eal | pertaining to |
-ectomy | excision - removal |
-graph | instrument for recording |
-iatry | medicine treatment |
-ia | condition |
-ic | pertaining to |
-ism | condition |
-ist | specialist |
-itis | inflammation |
-kenesia | movement |
-logist | specialist of the study |
-malacia | softening |
-metry | the act of measuring |
-oid | resembling |
-oma | tumor |
-osis | abnormal condition |
-pexy | fixation (of an organ) |
-physis | growth |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-pelgia | paralysis |
-porosis | porous |
-ptosis | prolapse |
-sarcoma | malignant tumor |
-scopy | visual exam |
-spasm | invonuntary movement |
-tension | to stretch |
-tomy | incision |
-trophy | development |
-um | structure, thing |