Suffix

-lysis

• involuntary contraction

• breaking down or dissolution

• enlargement

• pouching or hernia

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

-itis

• flow, discharge 

• enlargement

• bursting forth

• inflammation

-algia

• pain

• rupture

• flow, discharge 

• to suture

producing or causing

• -glia

• -emia

• -gen

• -gram

Match the following suffix with its meaning.

• breathing

• -pnea

• contraction

• -rrhea

• discharge

• -plegia

• paralysis

• -ist

• one who specializes in

• -spasm

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• eating/ swallowing

• -ectasis

• bursting forth of blood

• -phagia

• dialation/ widening

• -rrhage

• surgical repair

• -pepsia

• digestion

• -plasty

Match the following

• rupture

• -rrhexis

• prolapse, drooping

• -rrhagia

• burst forth

• -rrhea

• flow, discharge

• -rrhaphy

• suture, sew

• -ptosis

-lysis

• involuntary contraction

• breaking down or dissolution

• enlargement

• pouching or hernia

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

-itis

• flow, discharge

• enlargement

• bursting forth

• inflammation

-algia

• pain

• rupture

• flow, discharge

• to suture