Suffixes

-algia (fibromyalgia)

• pain

• disease of

• process of, or abnormal state

• pertaining to

-ectomy (appendectomy)

• record, image of

• condition of

• removal of

• resembling

-gram (angiogram)

• instrument used to visually examine

• resembling

• disease of

• record, image of

-ia, -iasis, -osis (psychosis)

• specialist

• inflammation of

• condition of

• disease of

-ian (pediatrician)

• specialist

• condition of

• process of

• record or image of

-ic, -ical, -al, -iac (cardiac, neural, gastric, apical)

• resembling

• pertaining to

• disease of

• instrument used to visually examine

-ism (albinism)

• disease of

• process of or abnormal state

• study of

• pertaining to

-itis (tonsillitis)

• pain

• study of

• resembling

• inflammation or infection of

-logy (cardiology)

• removal of

• pertaining to

• study of

• process of visually examining

-oid (lymphoid)

• disease of

• resembling

• removal of

• record of