Suffixes

-meter

• Instrument for viewing

• Pertaining to visual examination

• Treatment

• Record or picture

-otomy

• Surgical fixation

• Cutting into

• Hardening

• Treatment

-pexy

• Process of recording

• Pain

• Surgical fixation

• Cutting into

-graphy

• Record or picture

• Pertaining to visual examination

• destruction

• Process of recording

-sclerosis

• Pain

• Hardening

• Formation

• Destruction

-algia

• Hardening

• Dilation

• Pain

• Surgical removal

-ectomy

• Puncture to withdraw fluid

• Enlarge

• Surgical fixation

• Surgical removal

-ia

• Condition or state

• Formation

• Tumor or mass

• Cell

-centesis

• Dilation

• State of

• Puncture to withdraw fluid

• Surgically create an opening

-ectasis

• Instrument for viewing

• State of

• Drooping

• Dilation