common suffixes Flashcards
- ac
pertaining to (cardiac )
- blast
bud; germ (myeloblast), an embryonic state of development or the creator of a type of cell (osteoblast)
-cyte
cell (thrombocyte)
- dynia
pain; swelling (thoracodynia)
- eal, -ial
pertaining to (esophageal)
- ectasis
expansion; dilation (atelectasis)
- emia
blood condition (anemia)
- ia
condition (hemophilia)
- iasis
condition / formation of (psoriasis)
- ism
condition or process (hypothyroidism, embolism)
- itis / ites
inflammation (arthritis)
- ity
pertaining to (immunity)
- ium
structure or tissue (epithelium)
- lysis / - lytic
break down, deconstruction, dissolving (analysis, paralysis)
- malacia
softening (osteomalacia)
- megaly
enlargement (acromegaly)
- oid
resembling (arachnoid trabeculae, mucoid)
- oma
tumor (angiosarcoma)
- osis
condition (endometriosis)
- ous
pertaining to
- pathy
disease
- penia
deficiency (osteopenia)
- phagia
eating / swollowing
- phasia
speech (aphasia)
- plegia
paralysis (hemiplegia, paraplegia)
- pnea
breathing (apnea)
- poiesis
production ( hemopoiesis )
- ptosis
falling, drooping ( apoptosis )
- rrhage
bleeding (hemorrhage)
- rrhea
flow or discharge (diarrhea)
- sclerosis
hardening (steriosclerosis)
- sis
condition
- statis
level (hemeostatis)
- trophy
growth, nourishment (hypertrophy)
- uria
in the urine
