Digestive System(suffixes)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 -lith | stone |
| -logist | specialist in the study of |
| -logy | study of |
| -malacia | softening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -oma | tumor |
| -osis | abnormal condition |
| -paresis | slight or partial paralysis |
| -pathy | disease |
| -pepsia | digestion |
| -phagia | eating,swallowing |
| -phasia | speech |
| -phoria | feeling |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -rrhea | flow,discharge |
| -scope | instrument to view |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| -stenosis | narrowing,stricture |
| -stomy | mouthlike opening |
| -tomy | cutting into, incision |
| -tripsy | crushing |
| -trophy | nourishment or growth |
| -al,-ic | pertaining |
| -algia | pain |
| -dynia | pain |
| -ectomy | excision,surgical removal |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -kinesia | movement |
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