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Vet Suffixes
Term | Definition |
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-ALGIA | pain |
-CENTESIS | surgical puncture into |
-CYTE | cell |
-ECTOMY | surgical removal of |
-EMESIS | to vomit |
-EMIA | blood |
-FRAM | a record of |
-GRAPH | to record with an instrument |
-GRAPHY | the act of recording using an instrument |
-IA | condition |
-IST | specialist |
-ITIS | inflammation |
-LOGY | the study of |
-LYSIS | to break down |
-MALACIA | abnormal softening |
-MEGALY | enlargement of |
-OMA | tumor, mass |
-OPSY | to view or see |
-OSIS | condition |
-PATHY | disease |
-PENIA | lack of or deficiency |
-PEXY | to suture to |
-PHAG | to eat |
-PLASIA | to grow or change |
-PLASTY | to surgially repair |
-PENA | breathing |
-RRHAGE | to burst |
-RRHEA- | to flow |
-SCLEROSIS | abnormal hardening |
-SCOPE | instrument used to view |
-STOMY | to create a new surgical opening |
-THERAPY | treatment |
-TOMY | to cut into surgically; to make an incision |