Medical Suffixes
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monkeybutter on April 1, 2012
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Suffixes used in Essentials of Medical Terminology 3rd Edition by Juanita J. Davies
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57 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 algia;dynia | Pain (Disease) |
| cele | Hernia (Disease) |
| emesis | Vomiting (Disease) |
| ia ism sis | State of; condition (General) |
| itis | Inflammation (the redness, swelling, heat, and pain that occur when the body protects itself from injury) (Disease) |
| lysis | Destruction; separation; breakdown (Disease) |
| malacia | Softening (Disease) |
| megaly | Enlargement (Disease) |
| oma | Tumor; mass (Disease) |
| osis | Abnormal condition (General) |
| pathy | Disease process (Disease) |
| penia | Decrease, deficiency (Disease) |
| phobia | Irrational fear (Disease) |
| ptosis | Downward displacement; drooping; prolapse; sagging (Disease) |
| ptysis | Spitting (Disease) |
| rrhage rrhagia | Bursting forth (Disease) |
| rrhea | Flow; discharge (Disease) |
| rrhexis | Rupture (Disease) |
| sclerosis | Hardening (Disease) |
| spasm | Sudden, involuntary contraction (Disease) |
| stenosis | Narrowing; stricture (Disease) |
| y ion | Process (Disease) |
| gram | Record; writing (Diagnostic) |
| graph | Instrument used to record (Diagnostic) |
| graphy | Process of recording; producing images (Diagnostic) |
| tom/o | Root word which means "to cut" (Diagnostic) |
| meter | Instrument used to measure; process of measuring (Diagnostic) |
| metry | To measure; measurement (Diagnostic) |
| opsy | To view (Diagnostic) |
| scope | Instrument used to visually examine (a body cavity or organ) (Diagnostic) |
| scopy | Process of visually examining (a body cavity or organ) (Diagnostic) |
| centesis | Surgical puncture to remove fluid (Surgical Procedures) |
| desis | Surgical binding; surgical fusion (Surgical Procedures) |
| ectomy | Excision; surgical removal (Surgical Procedures) |
| pexy | Surgical fixation (Surgical Procedures) |
| plasty | Surgical reconstruction; surgical repair (Surgical Procedures) |
| rrhaphy | Suture; sew (Surgical Procedures) |
| stasis | Stoppage; stopping; controlling (Surgical Procedures) |
| stomy | New opening; artificial opening (Surgical Procedures) |
| tome | Instrument used to cut (Surgical Procedures) |
| tomy | Process of cutting; incision (Surgical Procedures) |
| cyte | Cell (General) |
| er; ician; logist; ist | Specialist; one who specializes; specialist in the study of (Specialties) |
| logy | Study of; process of study (Specialties) |
| or | One who; person or thing that does something (General) |
| plasia | Formation; development (General) |
| poiesis | Production; manufacture; formation (General) |
| genic | Produced by; producing (Adjectival) |
| oid | Resembling (Adjectival) |
| ole ule | Small (Adjectival) |
| ac; al; ary; eal; ic; ous | Pertaining to (General) |
| emia | Blood condition (Disease) |
| dilation | Widening (Disease) |
| lith | Stone (Disease) |
| plegia | Paralysis (Disease) |
| trophy | Development; nourishment (Disease) |
| tripsy | Crushing (Surgical Procedures) |
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