Grammatical suffixes Flashcards
al,ic,ar,ary,eal,
ior,ous,tic
Pertaining to
Short attached words to form parts of speech like adjectives and nouns are
Grammatical suffixes and many are used in English
Cardiac neural muscular pulmonary esophageal thoracic posterior cutaneous acoustic
All examples of suffixes, meaning to pertain to the change of words to an adjective
ia,ism,esis, are all suffixes that stand for
Separate all of these
A condition (noun)
Pneumonia thyroidism prosthesis
Are all medical terms with the suffix that stands for?
A condition of
The suffix that makes a word root into a noun and stands for medicine or treatment
iatry
The suffixes that makes a medical term into a noun and stands for a specialist
ician or ist
The suffix that stands for a condition or a process and also turns a medical term into a noun
Y
A condition of nerve diseases, the study of disorder of nerves
Neuropathy
I specialist in the study of blood
Hematologist
Treatment of the mind
Psychiatry
Condition of thyroid gland over activity
Thyroidism
Condition of the lungs
Pneumonia
The diminutive suffixes that stand for small or minute
Icle
Ole
Ule
A small cavity in the brain or heart
Ventricle
A small or minute artery
Arteriole
A small or minute vein
Venule
To change the suffix that ends with an a retain the a and add
An e
Change pleura to a plural
Pluerae
To change the suffix that ends in a X to a plural, you drop the X and add
Ces
Change thorax to a plural
Thoraces
To change a suffix that ends in EN you drop the EN and
Ina
Change lumen to a plural
Lumina
