Digestive System Suffixes

Question 1

-al

Answer 1

pertaining to

Question 2

-cele

Answer 2

hernia, protrusion, swelling

Question 3

-dynia

Answer 3

pain

Question 4

-ectomy

Answer 4

surgical removal, excision

Question 5

-emesis

Answer 5

vomit

Question 6

-iasis

Answer 6

abnormal condition (produced by something unspecified)

Question 7

-ic

Answer 7

pertaining to

Question 8

-ism

Answer 8

condition

Question 9

-ist

Answer 9

specialist

Question 10

-istry

Answer 10

specialty of

Question 11

-itis

Answer 11

inflammation

Question 12

-lith

Answer 12

stone, calculus

Question 13

-lithiasis

Answer 13

condition of stones

Question 14

-logist

Answer 14

specialist in the study of

Question 15

-lysis

Answer 15

destruction, separation, lossening

Question 16

-megaly

Answer 16

enlargement, large

Question 17

-ole

Answer 17

small

Question 18

-oma

Answer 18

tumor, neoplam

Question 19

-orexia

Answer 19

appetite

Question 20

-osis

Answer 20

abnormal condition, increase (used primarily with blood cells)

Question 21

-pathy

Answer 21

disease

Question 22

-pepsia

Answer 22

digestion

Question 23

-pexy

Answer 23

surgical fixation

Question 24

-phagia

Answer 24

swallowing, eating

Question 25

-plasty

Answer 25

surgical repair

Question 26

-plegia

Answer 26

paralysis

Question 27

-prandial

Answer 27

pertaining to a meal

Question 28

-ptosis

Answer 28

drooping, prolapse, downward

Question 29

-rrhaphy

Answer 29

suture

Question 30

-schisis

Answer 30

splitting

Question 31

-scope

Answer 31

instrument for viewing

Question 32

-scopy

Answer 32

visual examination

Question 33

-spasm

Answer 33

involuntary contraction, twitching

Question 34

-stenosis

Answer 34

narrowing, stricture

Question 35

-stomy

Answer 35

forming an opening (mouth)

Question 36

-tomy

Answer 36

incision

Question 37

-tripsy

Answer 37

surgical crushing

Question 38

-um

Answer 38

structure, thing