Medical Terminology Suffixes

surgical repair

• -dys-

• -plasty

• -tomy

• -itis

-itis

• inflammation

• surgical repair

• -graphy

• neo-

process of viewing

• -scopy

• -itis

• -ectomy

• dys-

-graphy

• process of viewing

• disease

• incision

• process of recording

surgical incision (to cut)

• -ectomy

• -tomy, -otomy

• pre-

• post-

-malacia

• abnormal hardening

• abnormal narrowing

• through

• abnormal softening

-rrhaphy

• finders keepers

• surgical removal

• disease

• surgical suturing

-ectasis

• subjective

• surgical incision

• stretching, dilation enlargement

-plasty

• abnormal thinning of hair

• surgical repair

• surgical removal

• blood clot

flow or discharge

• -rrhea

• poetry

• -malacia

• -ectomy