Common Medical Suffixes
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- -centesis
- puncture to withdraw fluid
- -ectomy
- surgical removal
- -ostomy
- surgically create an opening
- -otomy
- cutting into
- -ia
- state, condition
- -pexy
- surgical fixation
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -rrhaphy
- suture
- -gram
- record or picture
- -graph
- instrument for recording
- -sis
- condition
- -graphy
- process of recording
- -meter
- instrument for measuring
- -metry
- process of measuring
- -scope
- instrument for viewing
- -scopy
- process of visually examining
- -stasis
- stopping
- -iasis
- abnormal condition
- -cide
- kill
- -cise
- cut
- -cle
- small
- -coccus
- berry-shaped
- -cyte
- cell
- -dynia
- pain
- -ectasis
- dialation
- -ectopia
- displacement
- -emia
- condition of the blood
- -er
- one who
- -gen
- that which produces
- -spasm
- involuntary muscle contraction
- -genesis
- produces, generates
- -genic
- producing
- -iatric
- medicine, physician
- -ion
- process
- -ism
- state of
- -ist
- one who specializes in
- -itis
- inflammation
- -ium
- converts word root into a noun
- -ize
- to make, to use, take away
- -lapse
- to slide, sag
- -lith
- stone
- -logist
- one who studies
- -logy
- study of
- -lysis
- destruction
- -malacia
- abnormal softening
- -melagy
- enlargement, large
- -ole
- small
- -oma
- tumor, mass
- -osis
- abnormal condition
- -paresis
- weakness
- -parous
- bearing, give birth
- -partum
- birth, labor
- -pathy
- disease
- -penia
- few
- -phasis
- speech
- -phobia
- abnormal fear
- -phoria
- feeling, mental state
- -physis
- to grow
- -plasia
- development, growth
- -plasm
- formation, development
- -plegia
- paralysis
- -pnea
- breathing
- -ptosis
- drooping
- -rrhage
- excessive, abnormal flow
- -rrhea
- discharge, flow
- -rrhexis
- rupture
- -sclerosis
- hardening
- -stalsis
- constriction, contraction
- -stenosis
- narrowing
- -therapy
- treatment
- -trophy
- nourishment, development
- -ule
- small
- -um
- converts root word into a noun
- -uria
- condition of the urine
- -us
- converts root word into a noun
- -ac, -al, -an, -ar, - ary, -eal, -iac, -ic, -ical, -ile, -ior, -oid, -ory, - ose, -ous, -tic
- pertaining to
- -a
- converts a word to a noun
- -blast
- immature,embryonic
- -algia
- pain
- -cele
- hernia, protrusion