Medical Terminology Suffixes

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• pain

• -centesis

• hernia

• -cele

• without an opening

• -algia

• puncturing to aspirate fluid

• -al, -ar

• pertaining to

• -atresia

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• cell

• -ectasia

• cut out, excise

• -ectomy

• kill

• -cyte

• fusion

• -cide, -cidal

• expansion, dilation

• -desis

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• vomitting

• -gram

• making a record

• -edema

• blood

• -emesis

• record, x-ray

• -emia

• swelling

• -graphy

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• one who specializes

• -logy

• one who

• -itis

• inflammation

• -ist

• study of

• -iasis, -ism

• condition

• -logist

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• madness

• -megaly

• abnormal softening

• -meter

• enlargement

• -malacia

• break down, dissolve

• -lysis, -lytic

• measure

• -mania

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• disease

• -osis

• vision

• -oma

• resembling

• -pathy

• abnormal condition

• -oid

• tumor

• -opia

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• abnormal fear

• -phasia

• surgical fixation

• -pexy

• deficiency, poor

• -pepsia

• digestion

• -penia

• speak, say

• -phobia

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• breathe

• -plasm

• formation

• -plasty

• make, shape

• -plegia

• substance

• -plasia

• paralysis

• -pnea

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• rupture

• -rrhagia

• prolapse, drooping

• -rrhea

• flow, discharge

• -rrhexis

• suture, sew

• -ptosis

• burst forth

• -rrhaphy

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• instrument for viewing

• -stasis

• twitching

• -stomy

• visualization

• -scopy

• stop, control

• -scope

• creation of an opening

• -spasm