common suffixes Flashcards
1
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- ac
A
pertaining to (cardiac )
2
Q
- blast
A
bud; germ (myeloblast), an embryonic state of development or the creator of a type of cell (osteoblast)
3
Q
-cyte
A
cell (thrombocyte)
4
Q
- dynia
A
pain; swelling (thoracodynia)
5
Q
- eal, -ial
A
pertaining to (esophageal)
6
Q
- ectasis
A
expansion; dilation (atelectasis)
7
Q
- emia
A
blood condition (anemia)
8
Q
- ia
A
condition (hemophilia)
9
Q
- iasis
A
condition / formation of (psoriasis)
10
Q
- ism
A
condition or process (hypothyroidism, embolism)
11
Q
- itis / ites
A
inflammation (arthritis)
12
Q
- ity
A
pertaining to (immunity)
13
Q
- ium
A
structure or tissue (epithelium)
14
Q
- lysis / - lytic
A
break down, deconstruction, dissolving (analysis, paralysis)
15
Q
- malacia
A
softening (osteomalacia)
16
Q
- megaly
A
enlargement (acromegaly)
17
Q
- oid
A
resembling (arachnoid trabeculae, mucoid)
18
Q
- oma
A
tumor (angiosarcoma)
19
Q
- osis
A
condition (endometriosis)
20
Q
- ous
A
pertaining to
21
Q
- pathy
A
disease
22
Q
- penia
A
deficiency (osteopenia)
23
Q
- phagia
A
eating / swollowing
24
Q
- phasia
A
speech (aphasia)
25
- plegia
paralysis (hemiplegia, paraplegia)
26
- pnea
breathing (apnea)
27
- poiesis
production ( hemopoiesis )
28
- ptosis
falling, drooping ( apoptosis )
29
- rrhage
bleeding (hemorrhage)
30
- rrhea
flow or discharge (diarrhea)
31
- sclerosis
hardening (steriosclerosis)
32
- sis
condition
33
- statis
level (hemeostatis)
34
- trophy
growth, nourishment (hypertrophy)
35
- uria
in the urine
