Suffixes Flashcards by Hailey Dilling

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-tomy

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Cutting into

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-ectomy

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Surgical removal

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-pexy

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Suture to stabilize

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-plasty

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Surgical repair

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-stomy

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Surgically created opening

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-tomy

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Cutting into

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-ectomy

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Surgical removal/excision

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-centesis

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Surgical puncture to remove fluid or gas

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-gram

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Record of

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-graph

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Instrument that records

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-graphy

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Procedure that records

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-lysis

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Separation or breakdown

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-scope

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Procedure to visually examine

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-therapy

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Treatment

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-rrhagia or -rrhage

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Bursting forth

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-rraphy

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To suture

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-rrhea

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Flow, discharge

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-rrhexis

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Rupture

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-algia and -dynia

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Pain

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-ia

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State/condition

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-ion (shuhn)

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Action, process, state, condtion

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-itis

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Inflammation

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-ive

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Performs or tends toward

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-malacia

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Abnormal softening

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-megaly

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Enlargement

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-osis

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Abnormal condition

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-pathy

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Disease

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-sclerosis

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Abnormal hardening

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-um

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Structure

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-us

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Thing

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-penia

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deficiency/reduction in number

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-logy

A

study of

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-plasm

A

formative material of cells

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-um

A

structure

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-plasia

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formation and growth in the NUMBER of cells

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-trophy

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formation and growth in the SIZE of cells

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-oma

A

tumor or neoplasm

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-blasts

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immature

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-clasts

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break

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-poietic

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pertaining to form

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-desis

A

surgical fixation/binding of a bone of joint

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-kinesis

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movement

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-asthenia

A

weakness