Medical Terminology Suffixes

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• hernia

• -algia

• pain

• -atresia

• without an opening

• -centesis

• puncturing to aspirate fluid

• -al, -ar

• pertaining to

• -cele

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• kill

• -ectasia

• cut out, excise

• -cide, -cidal

• cell

• -cyte

• fusion

• -desis

• expansion, dilation

• -ectomy

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• vomitting

• -emia

• blood

• -graphy

• swelling

• -gram

• making a record

• -emesis

• record, x-ray

• -edema

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• one who specializes

• -ist

• inflammation

• -logy

• condition

• -itis

• one who

• -iasis, -ism

• study of

• -logist

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• enlargement

• -malacia

• measure

• -lysis, -lytic

• break down, dissolve

• -mania

• abnormal softening

• -megaly

• madness

• -meter

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• disease

• -pathy

• tumor

• -opia

• abnormal condition

• -oid

• resembling

• -osis

• vision

• -oma

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• deficiency, poor

• -phobia

• speak, say

• -pexy

• digestion

• -pepsia

• abnormal fear

• -phasia

• surgical fixation

• -penia

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• formation

• -plasm

• make, shape

• -plasia

• substance

• -plasty

• breathe

• -pnea

• paralysis

• -plegia

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• rupture

• -rrhexis

• burst forth

• -ptosis

• flow, discharge

• -rrhaphy

• prolapse, drooping

• -rrhagia

• suture, sew

• -rrhea

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• creation of an opening

• -stasis

• twitching

• -stomy

• stop, control

• -scope

• visualization

• -scopy

• instrument for viewing

• -spasm