Suffixes Flashcards
-Coccus
Spherical Bacterium
-Ia
Condition
-Malacia
Softening
-Opsy
View of
-Plasty
Surgical repair
-Rrhea
Discharge
-Tome
an instrument to cut
-Tomy
To cut
-Asthenia
Weakness
-Blast
Embryonic
-Clast, -Clasia, -Clasis
Break
-Desis
Bind together
-Listhesia
Slipping
-Malacia
Softening
-Physis
To grow
-Porosis
Passage, Cavity formation
-Schisis
Split
-Stenosis
Narrowing
-Algia
Pain
-Ar, -Ary
Pertaining to
-Capnia
Carbon Dioxide
-Centesis
Puncture to Remove (drain)
-Dynia
Pain
-Eal
Pertaining to
-Ectasis
Stretching
-Emia
Blood
-Gram
Record
-Graph
Recording Instrument
-Graphy
Recording Process
-Itis
Inflammation
-Meter
Measurement or Instrument that measures
-Metry
Measurement of
-Osmia
Smell
-Oxia
Oxygen
-Pexy
Fixation
-Phonia
Sound
-Pnea
Breathing
-Ptysis
Spitting
-Rrhage, -Rrhagia
Abnormal, excessive flow