Understanding Medical Suffixes

deficiency

• -penia

• -emia

• -itis

• -osis

study of

• -logy

• -ology

• -graphy

• -metry

repair

• -ectomy

• -plasty

• -itis

• -opathy

condition of the urine

• -uria

• -itis

• -emia

• -osis

or destruction

• -lysis

• -genesis

• -phobia

• -itis

or mass

• -oma

• -itis

• -algia

• -pathy

hardening

• sclerosis

• softening

• liquefaction

• expansion

Discharge

• -rrhea

• -itis

• -algia

• -osis

condition

• -itis

• -osis

• -emia

• -opathy

incision/cutting

• -tomy

• -ectomy

• -itis

• -ology