MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY: SUFFIXES

-itis

• flow, discharge     

• enlargement 

• bursting forth      

•  inflammation

arm

• brachio   

• cervic

• chest

• celi

-rrhea

• pain

• rupture 

• flow, discharge   

• to suture

-pnea

• discharge

• crushing   

• breathing

• spitting

surgical incision, process of cutting into

• -plasty     

• -ectomy  -ectomy

• -tomy 

• -ostomy

study of

• -logy

• -metry

• -rraphy   

• -itis

-ic

• full of  

• pertaining to   

• to cut into   

• resembling, like

tumor

• -ology    

• -oma

• -ostomy   

• -scopy

-scope

• instrument for examination             

• visual examination                           

• study of something

• process of recording

pertaining to

• -ase  

• -al     

• -cyte    

• -gen