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Week 4 Med. Term
Suffixes for symptomatic and diagnostic purposes
Question | Answer |
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-algia, -dynia | pain |
-genesis | origin or production |
-lysis | breaking down or dissolution |
-megaly | enlargement |
-oid | resembling |
-penia | abnormal reduction |
-rrhea | discharge |
-spasm | involuntary contraction |
-cele | pouching or hernia |
-ectasis | expansion or dilation |
-emia | blood condition |
-iasis | formation or presence of |
-itis | inflammation |
-malacia | softening |
-oma | tumor |
-osis | condition or increase |
-phil, -philia | attraction for |
-ptosis | falling or downward displacement |
-rrhage, -rrhagia | to burst forth (usually blood) |
-rrhexis | rupture |