MT Suffixes Flashcards by Sheryl Mathieson

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-AL

A

Pertaining to

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-ALGIA

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Pain

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-AR

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Pertaining to

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-ARY

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Pertaining to

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-BLAST

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Immature cell, embryonic

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-CELE

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Hernia

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-CENTESIS

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Surgical puncture to remove fluid

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-COCCUS (plural -cocci)

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Berry-shaped bacterium (plural bacteria)

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-CYESIS

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Pregnancy

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-CYTE

A

Cell

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-DROME

A

To run

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-DYNIA

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Pain

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-EAL

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Pertaining to

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-ECTOMY

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Excision, removal resection

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-EMIA

A

Blood condition

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-ER

A

One who

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-FUSION

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Coming together, to pour

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-GEN

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Substances that produce

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-GENESIS

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Producing, forming

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-GENIC

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Pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in

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-GRAM

A

Record

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-GRAPH

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Instrument for recording

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-GRAPHY

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Process of recording

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-IA

A

Condition

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-IC, -ICAL

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Pertaining to

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-ION

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Process

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-ISM

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Process, condition

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-IST

A

Specialist

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-ITIS

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Inflammation

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-LAPSE

A

To slide, fall, sag

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-LOGY

A

Study of

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-LYSIS

A

Breakdown, destruction, separation, loosening

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-MALACIA

A

Softening

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-MEGALY

A

Enlargement

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-METER

A

To measure

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-AC, -IAC

A

Pertaining to

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-MISSION

A

To send

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-OID

A

Resembling, derived from

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-OLE

A

Little, small

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-OMA

A

Tumor, mass, fluid collection

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-OPSY

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View of

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-OR

A

One who

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-OSE

A

Pertaining to, full of, sugar

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-OSIS

A

Condition, usually abnormal

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-OUS

A

Pertaining to

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-PARTUM

A

Birth, labor

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-PATHY

A

Disease, emotion

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-PENIA

A

Deficiency

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-PHOBIA

A

Fear

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-PHORIA

A

To bear, carry, feeling

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-PHYSIS

A

To grow

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-PLASIA

A

Development, growth, formation

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-PLASM

A

Structure, formation

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-PLASTY

A

Surgical repair

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-PNEA

A

Breathing

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-PTOSIS

A

Droop, sag, prolapse, protrude

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-RRHEA

A

Flow, discharge

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-SCLEROSIS

A

Hardening

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-SCOPE

A

Instrument for visual examination

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-SCOPY

A

Process of visual examination

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-SIS

A

State of, condition

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-SOME

A

Body

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-STASIS

A

To stop, control, place

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-STOMY

A

New opening to form a mouth (stoma)

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-THERAPY

A

Treatment

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-TIC

A

Pertaining to

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-TOMY

A

Process of cutting

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-TROPHY

A

Nourishment, development (condition of)

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-TYPE

A

Picture, classification

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-ULE

A

Little, small

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-UM, -IUM

A

Structure, tissue, thing

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-Y

A

Condition, process