Chapter 10 - suffixes

Question 1

-al, -ar, -eal, -ial, -ic, -tic

Answer 1

pertaining to

Question 2

-algesia

Answer 2

pain; sensitivity

Question 3

-algia

Answer 3

pain

Question 4

-asthenia

Answer 4

weakness

Question 5

-cele

Answer 5

hernia; swelling; protrusion

Question 6

-emic

Answer 6

pertaining to blood condition

Question 7

-esthesia

Answer 7

feeling; sensation

Question 8

-ferent

Answer 8

to carry

Question 9

-glia

Answer 9

glue

Question 10

-graphy

Answer 10

process of recording

Question 11

-ia

Answer 11

condition

Question 12

-ion

Answer 12

process; state; condition

Question 13

-ist

Answer 13

specialist

Question 14

-itis

Answer 14

inflammation

Question 15

-lepsy

Answer 15

seizure

Question 16

-leptic

Answer 16

to seize; take hold of

Question 17

-logy

Answer 17

study of

Question 18

-lysis

Answer 18

breakdown; separation; loosening

Question 19

-lytic

Answer 19

pertaining to breakdown or destruction

Question 20

-mania

Answer 20

obsessive preoccupation

Question 21

-orexia

Answer 21

appetite

Question 22

-osis

Answer 22

process; abnormal condition

Question 23

-paresis

Answer 23

weakness

Question 24

-pathy

Answer 24

disease

Question 25

-phasia

Answer 25

speech

Question 26

-phobia

Answer 26

fear

Question 27

-plegia

Answer 27

paralysis

Question 28

-rrhagic

Answer 28

pertaining to bursting forth (of blood)

Question 29

-rrhaphy

Answer 29

suture

Question 30

-sclerosis

Answer 30

hardening; thickening

Question 31

-taxia

Answer 31

muscle coordination

Question 32

-tomy

Answer 32

process of cutting; incision

Question 33

-tropic

Answer 33

turning

Question 34

-um, -us

Answer 34

structure; tissue; thing