Lesson 9: Greek Noun-Forming Suffixes III

Question 1

-oma

Answer 1

usually ‘tumour arising in or composed of’ occasionally ‘swelling containing’ rarely ‘diseased condition’ ‘result of’ (related to -ma in Lesson 8) (e.g. carcinoma)

Question 2

-osis

Answer 2

diseased condition of, act of, process of (related to -sis in Lesson 8) (e.g. osmosis)

Question 3

-itis

Answer 3

inflammation of, inflammatory disease of (e.g. appendicitis)

Question 4

-in, ine-

Answer 4

chemical substance (e.g. insulin)

Question 5

-ium

Answer 5

part, lining or enveloping tissue, region (e.g. epigastrium)

Question 6

ADEN-

Answer 6

gland (e.g. adenophore)

Question 7

ANGI-

Answer 7

vessel (e.g. angiitis)

Question 8

ARACHN-

Answer 8

spider (occasionally arachnoid membrane) (e.g. arachnida)

Question 9

ASTR-, ASTER-

Answer 9

star (e.g. asteroid)

Question 10

BLAST-

Answer 10

bud, germ, embryonic cell (e.g. blastoderm)

Question 11

CHLOR-

Answer 11

green, chlorine (e.g. chloroplast)

Question 12

COCC-

Answer 12

berry-shaped organism (e.g. coccolith)

Question 13

CONI-

Answer 13

dust (e.g. conidiophore)

Question 14

EO(S)-

Answer 14

dawn or early age, rosy (e.g. eolithic)

Question 15

LY-

Answer 15

to loosen, to dissolve, to break up (e.g. lysin)

Question 16

MENING-

Answer 16

membrane especially ‘meninges, the membranes enveloping the brain and spinal cord’ (MENINX) (e.g. meningitis)

Question 17

METR-

Answer 17

uterus (e.g. metremia)

Question 18

MYC-, MYCET-

Answer 18

fungus (e.g. mycoderm)

Question 19

MYEL-

Answer 19

spinal cord, marrow (e.g. myelin)

Question 20

NEUR-

Answer 20

nerve, nervous system, tendon (e.g. neurotomy)

Question 21

ORCH(I)-, ORCHID-

Answer 21

testicle (e.g. orchidectomy)

Question 22

PAN-, PANT-

Answer 22

all, complete (e.g. pangamic)

Question 23

PNEUMON-, PNEUM-

Answer 23

lung (e.g. pneumolith)

Question 24

POLI-

Answer 24

gray (e.g. polioplasm)

Question 25

THROMB-

Answer 25

clot (e.g. thrombocyte)