Pathological Suffixes Flashcards
What is the suffix for pain?
-agia, dynia
What is the suffix for a hernia/swelling
-cele
What is the suffix for Dilation or expansion?
-ectasis
What is the suffix for swelling?
-edema
What is the suffix for vomiting?
-emesis
What is the suffix for a blood condition?
-emia
What is the suffix for a abnormal condition (produced by something specific?)
-iasis
What is the suffix for inflammation?
-itis
What is the suffix for stone or calculus?
-lith
What is the suffix for softening?
-malacia
What is the suffix for enlargement?
-megaly
What is the suffix for a tumor
-oma
What is the suffix a abnormal condition; increase?
-osis
What is the suffix for disease?
-Pathy
what is the suffix for deficiency or decrease?
-penia
What is the suffix for fear?
-phobia
What is the suffix for paralysis?
-plegia
What is the suffix for a bursting (of)?
-rrhage, rrhagia
What is the suffix for a discharge or flow?
-rrhea
What is the suffix for a rupture?
-rrhexis
What is the suffix for a narrowing, or stricture?
-stenosis
What does the Suffix -Otomy refer to?
Refers to cutting or making an incision.
-ostomy
Refers to creating an opening (a stoma), from an area inside the body to the outside.
What does the term “alkalemia” mean?
Decreased hydrogen ion concentration in the blood
Which of these terms refers to: blood vessels
Angio
Meaning for the suffix -cyte
Cell
Meaning for the suffix -ism
Condition or disease
Meaning for the suffix -ectomy
Surgical Removal
Meaning for the suffix =al
Pertaining to
Meaning for the suffix -gram
picture or record
Meaning for the suffix -emia
Refers to the blood, or a blood condition
Meaning for the suffix –oxia
Pertains to O2
Meaning for the suffix -phasia
Pertains to speech
Meaning for the suffix -ic
Pertaining to
Meaning for the suffix -ology
Study of
Meaning for the suffix -pathy
Disease
Meaning for the suffix -algia
Pain
