Suffixes Flashcards
-ectomy
Excision (surgical removal)
-centesis
Surgical puncture to aspirated or remove fluid
-lysis
Process of loosening, freeing, or destroying
-pexy
Surgical fixation (fastening in fixed position)
-plasty
Surgical repair
-rrhaphy
Suture
-scopy
Visual examination with lighted instrument (not always a surgical procedure)
-stomy
Formation of an opening
-tome
An instrument used for cutting
-tomy
Incision (cutting into tissue)
-tripsy
Surgical crushing
- algia
- dynia
Pain
-cele
Hernia (protrusion of all or part of an organ through wall of cavity)
- ectasia
- ectasis
Dilatation (dilation, enlargement or stretching of a structure or part)
-edema
Swelling (usually applied to an accumulation of excessive fluid in the subcutaneous tissues, resulting in swelling)
-emesis
Vomiting
-emia
Condition of the blood
- ia
- iasis
Condition
-itis
Inflammation
-lith
Stone or calculus
-malecia
Soft
Softening
-mania
Excessive preoccupation
-megaly
Enlargement
-oid
Resembling
-oma
Tumor
-osis
Condition (often abnormal, sometimes increase)
-pathy
Disease
-penia
Deficiency
-phobia
Abnormal fear
-ptosis
Prolapse (sagging)
- rrhage
- rrhagia
Excessive bleeding
-rrhea
Flow or discharge
-rrhexis
Rupture
-spasm
Twitching
Cramp
-stasis
Stopping
Controlling
- able
- ible
Capable of
Able to
- ac, -al, -an
- ar, -ary, -eal
- ic, -ive, -tic
Pertaining to
-ase
Enzyme
- eum
- ium
Membrane
- ia
- ism
Condition or theory
-iac
One who suffers
-opia
Vision
-ose
Sugar
-ous
Pertaining to
Characterized by
-y
State or condition
