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Medical Terminology5
Combining Forms/Suffixes (Leonard, Ch. 3)
Combining Form | Suffixes | Meaning |
---|---|---|
cyt/o | -cyte | cell |
gen/o | -genic, -genesis | produced by or in, forming |
gram/o | -gram, -graph, -graphy | to record, a record, instrument ,process |
kinesi/o | -kinesia, -kinesis | movement, motion |
leps/o | -lepsy | seizure |
log/o | -logist, -logy | knowledge, one who studies, science of |
lys/o | -lysin, -lysis, -lytic | destruction, that which destroys, process, capable of |
malac/o | -malacia | soft, abnormal softening |
megal/o | -megaly | large, enlarged, enlargement |
metr/o | -meter, -metry | measure, uterine tissue, instrument, process |
path/o | -pathy | disease |
phag/o | -phagia, -phagic, -phagy | eat, ingest, eating swallowing |
phas/o | -phasia | speech |
pleg/o | -plegia | paralysis |
schis/o, schiz/o, schist/o | -schisis | split, cleft |
scler/o | -sclerosis | hard, hardening |
scop/o | -scope, -scopy | examine, instrument, process |
troph/o | -trophic, -trophy | nutrition |