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MED TERM - SUFFIXES
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
Question | Answer |
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-algia | condition of pain |
-emia | blood condition |
-ia | condition |
-itis | inflammation |
-megaly | enlargement |
-oma | tumor, mass |
-osis | condition, abnormal condition |
-pathy | disease condition |
-rrhea | flow, discharge |
-rrhage or -rrhagia | excessive discharge of blood, excessive flow |
-sclerosis | hardening |
-uria | condition of urine |
-al or -eal | pertaining to |
-ar | pertaining to |
-ary | pertaining to |
-ic | pertaining to |
-centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid |
-ectomy | removal, resection, excision |
-gram | record |
-graphy | process of recording |
-lysis | separation, breakdown, destruction |
-plasty | surgical repair, or surgical correction |
-scopy | process of visual examination |
-stomy | opening |
-therapy | treatment |
-otomy | incision, cutting into |
-cele | hernia |
-desis | binding |
-dynia | pain |
-graph | instrument used to produce a record |
-iasis | presence of |
-iatrics and -iatry | medicine science |
-iatrist | specialists in medicine of |
-icle | small |
-ist | specialist |
-ium | tissue, structure |
-logist | specialist in the study of |
-logy | study of |
-malacia | abnormal softening |
-meter | instrument use to measure |
-metry | process of measuring |
-oid | resembling |
-ole | small |
-ous | pertaining to |
-penia | deficiency |
-pexy | surgical fixation |
-ptosis | drooping |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-scope | instrument used to look |
-spasm | involuntary contraction |
-ula | small |
-y | condition, process |
-cyte | cell |
-ism | condition, process |
-sis | state of |
-opsy | process of viewing |
-necrosis | tissue death |
-stenosis | abnormal narrowing |
-plegia | paralysis, stroke |
-paresis | partial or incomplete paralysis |