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Medical Term Suffix
Term | Definition |
---|---|
-al | Pertaining to |
-ase | Enzyme |
-blast | Budding |
-centesis | Surgical Puncture |
-cidal | Causing Death |
-clast | Broken |
-crit | To Separate |
-cyte | Cell |
-ectomy | Excision or Surgical Removal |
-emia | Blood Condition |
-emesis | Vomiting |
-genesis | The Beginning |
-glia | Glue |
-gram | Something Written |
-ia | Condition of, Diseased or Abnormal State |
-iac, -ic, ior | Pertaining to |
-ism | State pf |
-itia, itis | Inflammation |
-logy | Study of |
-lyte | Dissolvable |
-lytic | Destroy, Reduce |
-mania | Madness or Insane Desire |
-megaly | Enlargement |
-meter | Instrument Used to Measure |
-odia | Smell |
-ologist | One who Studies and Practice |
-oma | Tumor and Swelling |
-opia | Vision |
-opsy | To view |
-orrhea | Flow, Excessive |
-orrhexis | Rupture |
-osis | Abnormal Increase in Production |
-ostomy | Creation of an Artificial |
-otomy | Cutting into or Incision |
-oxia | Oxygen |
-pathy | Disease |
-sclerosis | Hardening |
-scope | Instrument Used for Visual Examination |
-scopy | Visual Examination |
-stasis | Control or Stop |
-tomy | Cutting |
-tropic | Ifluencing |
-sepsis | Infection |
-spasm | Sudden Involuntary Movement |