Chapter 4: Suffix Forms

Question 1

-ectasia, -ectasis, ectomy

Answer 1

dilation, enlargement, surgical excision; removal of all

Question 2

-gen

Answer 2

substance that produces (something)

Question 3

-genesis

Answer 3

formation, origin

Question 4

-genic

Answer 4

causing, producing, caused

Question 5

-genous

Answer 5

by, produced by or in

Question 6

-gram

Answer 6

a record of the activity of an organ

Question 7

-graph

Answer 7

an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

Question 8

-graphy

Answer 8

1) the recording of the activity of an organ

2) a descriptive treatise

Question 9

-lysis

Answer 9

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

Question 10

-lytic

Answer 10

pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration

Question 11

-pathy

Answer 11

disease

Question 12

-ptosis

Answer 12

dropping, sagging, prolapse

Question 13

-rrhagia

Answer 13

profuse discharge, hemorrhage

Question 14

-rrhea

Answer 14

profuse discharge, excessive secretion

Question 15

-rrhexis

Answer 15

burst (of tissue), rupture

Question 16

-scope

Answer 16

an instrument for examining

Question 17

-scopy

Answer 17

examination

Question 18

-tome

Answer 18

a surgical instrument for cutting

Question 19

-tomy

Answer 19

surgical incision