Common Suffixes Flashcards
Fear of
-phobia
Blood Condition
-emia
Drooping, prolapse, sagging, falling down
-ptosis
Growth or development
-trophy
Hardening
sclerosis
Disease, emotion
-pathy
Process of recording
-graphy
Paralysis, stroke, palsy
-plegia
To burst forth, bursting forth
-rrhage
To form
-genesis, -genic
Flow or discharge
-rrhea
Cutting out
-ectomy
Protrusion, hernia, tumor, swelling
-cele
New opening
-stomy
involuntary movement
-spasm
To use
ate,- ize
Surgical fixation
-pexy, -pexis
The study of a specific field
-ology
Process of measuring
-metry
To suture or fixate
-rrhaphy
Enlargement
-megaly
Process of visual examination
-scopy
To write, record, instrument for recording
-graph
Pertaining to
-ac, -ic, -al, -ous, -tic, -is, -ar, -ary, -ior, -eal
Instrument used to measure
-meter
Pain
-algia, -dynia
Abnormal cell condition (too many)
-cytosis
Formation
-plasia
To view
-opsy
Specialist
-ologist
Shape
-form
Skin
-derma
Tumor, mass, fluid collection
-oma
Breakdown, destruction, separation, loosening, dissolution
-lysis
Cutting into
-otomy
Instrument used to examine
-scope
Weight, mark, record
-gram
Condition of
-esis, -ia, -iasis, -ism, -ity, -osis, -sis, -tion, -y
Reconstruction or shaping
-plasty
Breathing
-pnea
To swallow or to eat
-phagia
To vomit
-emesis
Softening
-malacia
Artificial or surgical opening
-ostomy, -stomy, -tomy
Inflammation
-itis
Binding
-desis
cell
cyte
Lack of or deficiency
-penia
Protein
-globin
Surgical puncture
-centesis