medical terminology suffixes
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- -toxic
- poison
- -stenosis
- narrowing, stricture
- -algia
- pain
- -oid
- resembling
- -trophy
- development, nourishment
- -phasia
- speech
- -cele
- hernia, swelling
- -dynia
- pain
- -stasis
- standing still
- -centesis
- puncture
- -ptosis
- prolapse, downward displacement
- -desis
- binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)
- -ectomy
- excision, removal (to cut out)
- -lysis
-
separation, destruction (destroy),
loosening - -pexy
- suspension, fixation (of an organ)
- -oma
- tumor
- -spasm
- involuntary contraction, twitching
- -ectasis
- dilation, expansion
- -emesis
- vomiting
- -osis
-
abnormal condition, increase
used primarily with blood cells - -scopy
- visual examination
- -rrhaphy
- suture
-
-rrhage
-rrhagia - bursting forth
- -rrhea
- discharge, flow
- -rrhexis
- rupture
- -paresis
- partial paralysis
- -plegia
- paralysis, stroke
- -phagia
- eating, swallowing
- -plasty
- plastic or surgical repair
- -poiesis
- formation, production
- -penia
- decrease, deficiency
- -plasia
- formation, growth
- -phobia
- fear
- -philia
- attraction to
- -pathy
- disease
- -para
- to bear (offspring)
- -scope
- instrument to view or examine
- -metry
- act of measuring
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -meter
- instrument for measuring
- -graphy
- process of recording
- -graph
- instrument for recording
- -clasis
- break, fracture
- -itis
- inflammation
- -lith
- stone, calculus
- -logist
- specialist in the study of
- -logy
- study of
- -malacia
- softening
- -tripsy
- crushing
- -stomy
- forming an opening (mouth)
- -tome
- instrument to cut
- -tomy
- incision, cut into
- -emia
- blood condition
-
-gen
-genesis - forming, producing, origin
- -gram
- record, a writing
- -iasis
-
abnormal condition
produced by something specified