Medical Terminology Suffixes

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• pain

• -al, -ar

• hernia

• -cele

• without an opening

• -atresia

• puncturing to aspirate fluid

• -centesis

• pertaining to

• -algia

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• cell

• -ectasia

• expansion, dilation

• -cide, -cidal

• kill

• -cyte

• cut out, excise

• -desis

• fusion

• -ectomy

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• making a record

• -emia

• blood

• -graphy

• record, x-ray

• -edema

• swelling

• -gram

• vomitting

• -emesis

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• one who

• -ist

• condition

• -logist

• inflammation

• -itis

• one who specializes

• -iasis, -ism

• study of

• -logy

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• break down, dissolve

• -meter

• measure

• -mania

• enlargement

• -megaly

• abnormal softening

• -lysis, -lytic

• madness

• -malacia

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• disease

• -pathy

• tumor

• -osis

• abnormal condition

• -opia

• vision

• -oid

• resembling

• -oma

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• digestion

• -pexy

• surgical fixation

• -pepsia

• abnormal fear

• -phobia

• deficiency, poor

• -penia

• speak, say

• -phasia

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• formation

• -plasia

• make, shape

• -pnea

• breathe

• -plasm

• substance

• -plasty

• paralysis

• -plegia

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• suture, sew

• -rrhagia

• burst forth

• -rrhaphy

• rupture

• -rrhexis

• prolapse, drooping

• -ptosis

• flow, discharge

• -rrhea

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• visualization

• -spasm

• instrument for viewing

• -scope

• creation of an opening

• -stasis

• twitching

• -scopy

• stop, control

• -stomy