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Green Module
Reduced Terminology - Suffixes
Question | Answer |
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-ad | toward |
-al | pertaining to |
-algia | pain |
-asthenia | weakness, debility |
-blast | embryonic cell |
-clasia | to break; surgical fracture |
-clasis | to break; surgical fracture |
-clast | to break |
-cyte | cell |
-desis | binding; fixation |
-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 |
-kinesia | movement |
-logist | specialist in the study of |
-malacia | softening |
-oid | resembling |
-oma | tumor |
-osis | abnormal condition; increase |
-pexy | fixation |
-physis | growth |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-ptosis | prolapse; downward displacement |
-sarcoma | malignant tumor of connective tissue |
-scopy | visual examination |
-spasm | involuntary contraction; twitching |
-tomy | incision |
-trophy | developement; nourishment |
-um | structure; thing |