Medical Terminology: Suffixes

centesis

• pertaining to

• procedure that records

• a new permanent opening

• puncture a cavity to remove fluid

-itis

• flow, discharge 
• enlargement
• bursting forth
• inflammation

-ostomy

• to surgically create an artificial opening

• destruction or breaking down

• abnormal narrowing

• a deficiency of

algia, dynia

• rupture

• pain

• disease

• pertaining to

-rrhage / -rrhagia

• bursting forth (abnormal discharge or bleeding)

• tumor

• pertaining to the formation of

• paralysis

-plegia

• visual examination

• paralysis

• bursting forth

• tumor

Which suffix means 'surgical removal'?

• -rrhaphy

• -plasty

• -ectomy

• -otomy

repair

• pexy

• pathy

• plasty

• tripsy

visual examination

• -scope
• -scopy
• -stasis
• -tomy

What is the suffix meaning 'abnormal condition'?

• -itis

• -osis

• -algia

• -emia