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Medical Terminology
SUFFIXES
Suffix
Meaning
-ac
-ad
-agra
-al
-algia, -algesia
-apheresis
-ar
-arche
-ary
-assay
-asthenia
-atresia
-basia
-blast
-capnia
-cele
-centesis
-chalasia
-chesia, -chezia
-cide
-clasia, -clasis, -clast
-clysis
-coccus
-crasia
-crit
-cusis
-cyesis
-cyte
-desis
-didymus, -pagus
-drome
-duction
-dynia
-ectasia, -ectasis
-ectomy
-edema
-emesis
-emia
-emphraxis
-esis
-esthesia
-facient
pertaining to
toward
severe pain
pertaining to
pain
separation, removal
pertaining to
first
pertaining to
examine, analyze
weakness
closure, occlusion
walking
embryonic, immature
carbon dioxide
herniation, hernia, swelling
puncture or tap to draw fluid from
relaxation
defecation
killing, agent that kills
break, breaking
irrigation, washing, infusion of fluid, enema
berry-shaped bacterium
mixture
separate
hearing
pregnancy
cell
surgical fixation, fusion
conjoined twin
running
a motion that pulls a structure
pain
dilation, expansion
excision of, removal, cut out
swelling
vomiting
blood condition
stoppage, obstruction
action, condition, process
sensation, feeling
to cause, make happen
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Medical Terminology
SUFFIXES
-febrile
-flexion
-form
-gen, -genesis
-geusia
-globin, -globulin
-gnosis
-grade
-gram
-graph
-graphy
-gravida
-helminth
-hexia
-ia
-iasis
-ic, -ical
-ician, -ist
-icle
-ictal
-in, -ine
-ism
-ite
-itis (pl. –itides)
-labile
-lalia
-legia
-lemma
-lepsy
-lexia
-lipsis
-listhesis
-log, -logue
-logist
-logy, -logia
-lucent
-lysis
-malacia
-mania
-monometer
-manometry
-manual
-masesis
-megaly
fever
bending, flexing
specified shape, form
development, formation, produce, originate, generate
taste
protein
to know
step
written record, recording
instrument for recording
process of recording
pregnancy
worm
condition
pertaining to
condition, infestation, infection
pertaining to
specialist
small, little, minute
stroke, seizure
chemical/biochemical substance
condition, disease, practice, doctrine
nature of, resembling
inflammation
unstable, perishable
speech, babble
reading
confining membrane
seizure
speech, word
omit, fail
slipping
thought
one who studies, a specialist
study of
light-admitting
destruction, dissolution, breakdown
softening
madness, obsessive preoccupation
instrument to measure pressure
process of measuring pressure
hand
chewing
enlarged
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Medical Terminology
SUFFIXES
-meter
-metry
-mimesis
-mnesia
-motor
-noia
-oid
-ole
-oma
-opia, -opsia
-opsy
-orexia
-osis
-ous
-oxia
-para, -parous
-paresis
-partum
-pathy
-pause
-penia
-petal
-pexy
-phagia
-phobia
-pheresis
-phil, -philia
-phore
-phylaxis
-phyma
-physis
-piesis
-plasm
-plasty
-plegia, -plegic
-pnea
-poiesis
-pore
-porosis
-posia
-praxia
-privia
-ptosis
-ptysis
instrument to measure
to measure
imitation, simulation
memory
movement, motion
mind, will
like, resembling
little, small
tumor, mass
vision
to view
appetite
condition of, disease
pertaining to
oxygen
to bear, bring forth
partial paralysis
childbirth, labor
disease
cessation
deficiency, decrease, not enough
moving toward, seeking
fixation
eat
abnormal fear
removal
affinity for, tendency toward
bearer, processor
protection
tumor, growth
growth, growing
pressure
growth/formation of tissue
surgical repair, correction
paralysis
breath, breathing
formation
opening, passageway
porous, decrease in density
drinking
action, activity
loss, deprivation
prolapse, drooping
spitting
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Medical Terminology
SUFFIXES
-puncture
-rrhagia, -rrhage
-rrhaphy
-rrhea
-rrhexis
-scope
-scopy
-sect
-some
-spasm
-sperm
-sphyxia
-stasis
-stat
-stomy
-thymia
-tome
-tomy
-tresia
-tripsy
-trophy
-tropia
-type
-ule
-um, y, a, ia
-uresis
-uria
-verse
-volemia
to pierce a surface
excessive flow, profuse fluid discharge
suture
flow, discharge
rupture
instrument to examine
process of examining, examination
to cut
body
twitching, involuntary contraction
sperm
pulse
slow, stop
device/instrument to keep something stationary
forming a new opening
mind, emotions
instrument that cuts
incision into
opening, perforation
to crush, break down
development, growth, nourishment
to turn
class
little, small
noun ending
urination
pertaining to urine
turn
blood volume
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