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Unit 3
Suffixes
Term | Definition |
---|---|
-algesia | excessive sensitivity to pain |
-algia | pain |
-esthesia | feeling/ nervous sensation |
-kinesia | movement |
-kenesis | Movement |
-lepsy | Seizure |
-paresis | slight paralysis |
-phasia | Speech |
-plegia | Paralysis |
-praxia | action |
-sthenia | strength |
-constriction | Narrowing |
-dilation | Widening/Stretching/ Expanding |
-emia | Blood Condition |
-graphy | Process of recording |
-lysis | Breakdown/ Separation/ Destruction/ Loosing |
-meagly | Enlargement |
-meter | Measure |
-oma | Tumor/ Mass/ Fluid Collection |
-osis | Condition, usually abnormal |
-plasty | Surgical Repair |
-sclerosis | Hardening |
-stenosis | Tightening/ Structure |
-tomy | Process of cutting |
-osmia | smell |
-pnea | breathing |
-ptysis | spitting |
-sphyxia | pulse |
-thorax | pleural cavity/ chest |