Suffix Flashcards
Rrhea
Flow, discharge
Tomy
Incision, to cut open
Sis
State of; condition
y
Process; condition.
Phoria
To bear, carry; feeling (mental state)
Physis
To grow
Plasia
Development, formation, growth
Stasis
Stopping, controlling
Trophy
Development, nourishment
Plasm
Structure or formation
Pnea
Breathing
Ptosis
Falling, drooping, prolapse
Or
One who
Oxia
Oxygen
Lysis
Breakdown
Destruction
Separation
Meter
To measure
Mission
To send
Gen
Substances that produces
Lapse
To slide, fall, sag
ion
Process
“ExcisION”
Process of cutting
Blast
Embryonic, immature cell
Crine
To secrete
Drome
To run
Genic
Pertaining to producing
Produced by
Produced in
Globin
Protein
“Hem/o/globin”
Protein in the blood
Gram
Record
Ectomy
Excision
Removal
Emia
Blood condition
Algia
Dynia
Pain
Cyte
Cell
Osis
Condition; usually abnormal
Pathy
Disease condition.
Scope
Instrument to visually examine
Scopy
Process of visually examining
Oma
Tumor
Opsy
Process of viewing
Itis
Inflammation
Logy
Study of
cele
hernia
centesis
surgical puncture to remove fluid
coccus
cocci
berry-shaped bacterium
genesis
condition of producing, forming
graph
instrument to record
graphy
process of recording
malacia
softening
megaly
enlargement
penia
deficiency
phobia
fear
plasty
surgical repair
sclerosis
hardening
stomy
opening to form a mouth (new opening)
therapy
treatment
er
one who
- ia
- ema
condition
-ist
specialist
ole
little, small
um, ium
structure, tissue
us
structure, substance
ac, iac al, ic ar, ical ary, eal ous, tic
pertaining to
oid
resembling, derived from
ose
pertaining to, full of
fusion
coming together, to pour
clast
to break
listhesis
slipping
porosis
pore, passage
tome
instrument to cut
desis
to bind, tie together
stenosis
narrowing
asthenia
lack of strength
Fferent
Carrying
-Sonia
Smell
-ptysis
Spitting
-sphyxia
Pulse
-thorax
Pleural cavity; chest
-ase
enzyme
-chezia
defecation, elimination of wastes
-iasis
abnormal
-prandial
meal
- ectasis
- ectasia
dilation, (dilatation), widening/stretching
-emesis
vomiting
-pepsia
digestion
-phagia
eating, swallowing
-plasty
surgical repair
- rrhage
- rrhagia
bursting forth (of blood)
-rrhaphy
suture
-spasm
involuntary contraction of muscles
-tresia
opening
-stalsis
Contraction
-apheresis
removal, a carrying away
-cytosis
abnormal condition of cells
-lytic
pertaining to destruction
-philia
attraction for (an increase in cell numbers)
-phoresis
carrying, transmission
- poiesis
- poietin
formation
substance that forms
-agon
assemble, gather together
- in
- ine
substance
-tropin
stimulating the function of (to turn or act on)
- urin/o
- uria
urine
urine condition
-tripsy
crushing
-one
hormone
-pexy
fixation. put in place
-arche
beginning
-cyesis
pregnancy
-gravida
pregnant
-parous
bearing, bringing forth
-salpinx
fallopian (uterine) tube
- tocia
- partum
labor, birth
-version
act of turning
-rrhexis
rupture
- opia
- opsia
vision
-tropia
to turn
- acusis
- cusis
hearing
-otia
ear condition