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Suffixes
Medical Terminology
Question | Answer |
---|---|
-algia | painful |
-asthenia | weakness |
-cele | hernia |
-centesis | surgical puncture |
-ectomy | surgical removal |
-itis | inflammation/infection |
-gram | picture |
-malacia | -abnormal softening |
-megaly | enlargment |
-necrosis | death of tissue |
-ology | study of |
-osis | abnormal condition |
-ostomy | surgical opening |
-otomy | surgical incision |
-orrhea | flow |
-pathy | disease |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-sclerosis | hardening, abnormal |
-scope | instrument to view |
-stenosis | narrowing |