Suffixes Flashcards by Emily Schroder

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-Coccus

A

Spherical Bacterium

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-Ia

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Condition

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-Malacia

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Softening

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-Opsy

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View of

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-Plasty

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Surgical repair

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-Rrhea

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Discharge

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-Tome

A

an instrument to cut

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-Tomy

A

To cut

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-Asthenia

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Weakness

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-Blast

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Embryonic

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-Clast, -Clasia, -Clasis

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Break

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-Desis

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Bind together

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-Listhesia

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Slipping

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-Malacia

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Softening

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-Physis

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To grow

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-Porosis

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Passage, Cavity formation

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-Schisis

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Split

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-Stenosis

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Narrowing

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-Algia

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Pain

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-Ar, -Ary

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Pertaining to

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-Capnia

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Carbon Dioxide

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-Centesis

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Puncture to Remove (drain)

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-Dynia

A

Pain

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-Eal

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Pertaining to

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-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

-Scopy

To examine

-Spasm

Contraction of muscle

-Sphyxia

Pulse

-Stenosis

Blockage, Narrowing

-Stomy

Opening

-Thorax

Chest

-Tomy

Cutting, Incision

-Dialation

Widening, Expanding

-Lysis

Separation

-Megaly

Enlargement

-Oma

Tumor

-Sclerosis

Hardening

-Arche

Beginning

-Cyesis, -Gravida

Pregnancy

-Rrhexis

Rupture

-Para

Woman Who has given birth -

-Salpinx

Uterine Tube

-Tocia

Labor

-Version

Turning

-One

Hormone

-Pexy

Fixation

-Ectomy

Fixation, removal

-Stomy

New opening

-Lithiasis

Condition of stones

-Lysis

Separation

-Rrhaphy

Suture

-Tripsy

Crush

-Ase

Enzyme

-Cele

Hernia

-Chezia

Defecation

-Iasis

abnormal condition

-Phagia

Eating

-Prandial

Meal

-Edema

Swelling

-Itis

Inflammation

-Megaly

Enlargement

-Oid

Resembling

-Oma

Tumor

-Penia

Deficient

-Pexy

Fixation

-Phlaxis

Protection

-Poiesis

Production

-Agon

Assemble

-Drome

Run, relationship to conducting, to speed

-Emia

Blood condition

-In, -Ine

A substance

-Tropin

Act upon

-Uria

Urine

-Algesia

pain sensation

-Algia

pain

-Cele

Hernia

-Esthesia

feeling

-iatry

medical treatment

-ictal

pertaining to

-kines/o

movement

-paresis

incomplete paralysis

-plegia

paralysis

-opia

vision

-omia

smell

-tropia

to turn