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Chapters 1-7
Suffixes
Term | Definition |
---|---|
-ac | Pertaining to |
-al | Pertaining to |
-algia | Pain |
-cyte | Cell |
-ectomy | Excision/Removal |
-emia | Blood Condition |
-genic | Pertaining to/ Producing/ Produced by or in |
-globin | Protein |
-gram | Record |
-ic/ -ical | Pertaining to |
-ion | Process |
-ist | Specialist |
-itis | Inflammation |
-logy | Process of Study |
-oma | Tumor/ Mass/ Swelling |
-opsy | Process of Viewing |
-osis | Condition(usually abnormal) |
-pathy | Disease Condition |
-scope | Instrument Used to Visually Examine |
-scopy | The Process of Viewing |
-sis | State of/ Condition |
-tomy | Process of Cutting |
-y | Process/ Condition |
-eal | Pertaining to |
-iac | Pertaining to |
-ior | Pertaining to |
-ism | Process/ Condition |
-ose | Pertaining to/ Full of |
-plasm | Formation |
-somes | bodies |
-type | Picture/ Classification |
-cele | Hernia |
-centesis | Surgical Puncture to Remove Fluid |
-coccus/ Cocci | Berry Shaped Bacterium |
-dynia | Pain (not commonly used) |
-genesis | Condition of Producing/Forming |
-graph | Instrument for Recording |
-graphy | Process of Recording |
-lysis | Breakdown/Destruction/Separation |
-malacia | Softening |
-megaly | Enlargement |
-penia | Deficiency |
-phobia | Fear |
-plasia | Development/ Formation/ Growth |
-plasty | Surgical Repair |
-ptosis | Drooping/ Falling/ Prolapse |
- rreah | Flow/ Discharge |
-sclerosis | Hardening |
-stasis | Controlling/ Stopping |
-stomy | Opening to the Outside of the Body |
-therapy | Treatment |
-trophy | Development/ Nourishment |
-er | One Who |
-ia | Condition |
-ist | Specialist |
-ole | Little/Small |
-ule | Little/Small |
-um/ -ium | Structure/ Tissue |
-us | Structure/ Substance |
-ar | Pertaining to |
-ary | Pertaining to |
-oid | Resembling/ Derived From |
-ous | Pertaining to |
-tic | Pertaining to |
-blast | Embryonic/ Immature |
-crine | To Secrete |
-drome | To Run |
-fusion | Coming Together/ To Pour |
-gen | Substance that Produces |
-lapse | To Slide/ Fall/ Sag |
-meter | To Measure |
-mission | To Send |
-or | One Who |
-oxia | Oxygen |
-partum | Birth/ Labor |
-phoria | To Bear/ Carry/ Feeling(mental state) |
-physis | To Grow |
-pnea | Breathing |
-poietin | substance that forms |
-tripsy | to crush |
-uria | urination; urine condition |
-ectasis | Stretching or dilation |
-esis | Condition |
-lithiasis | Condition of stones |
-lithotomy | Incision for removal of a stone |
-ole | little or small |
-osis | condition |