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Suffixes
suffixes of medical words
Term | Definition |
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-algia | related to pain |
-emia | related to blood |
-ia | condition;state;thing |
-ism | disease from a specific cause;process |
-itis | infalmmation |
-lepsy | attack; seizure |
-megaly | enlargement |
-oma | mass or tumor |
-osis | condition; process |
-pathy | disease |
-pnea | related to breathing |
-rrhea | discharge or flow |
-centesis | surgical puncture |
-ectomy | surgical removal |
-gram | record; picture |
-graphy | process of recording |
-metry | process of measuring |
-plasty | to modify or reshape |
-scope | instrument used to examine |
-scopy | process of using an instrument to examine |
-stomy | surgically created opening |
-therapy | treatment |
-tomy | process of cutting or making an incision |
-tripsy | process of crushing |
-ac | pertaining to |
-al | pertaining to |
-ar | pertaining to |
-ary | pertaining to |
-ic | pertaining to |
-ine | pertaining to |
-ive | pertaining to |
-ous | pertaining to |
-tic | pertaining to |
-ian | specialist in some field |
-iatry | medical specialty |
-ics | medical specialty |
-iatrics | medical specialty |
-ist | person who specializes in |
-logy | study of |
-ation | being; having; process |