Suffixes

Question 1

-ac

Answer 1

pertaining to

Question 2

-ar

Answer 2

pertaining to

Question 3

-eal

Answer 3

pertaining to

Question 4

-ic

Answer 4

pertaining to

Question 5

-agra

Answer 5

excessive pain

Question 6

-apheresis

Answer 6

removal

Question 7

-asthenia

Answer 7

weakness

Question 8

-capnia

Answer 8

carbon dioxide

Question 9

-centesis

Answer 9

surgical puncture to aspirate fluid

Question 10

-clasia

Answer 10

break

Question 11

-clast

Answer 11

break

Question 12

-coccus (pl. cocci)

Answer 12

berry-shaped (bacterium form)

Question 13

-crit

Answer 13

to separate

Question 14

-desis

Answer 14

surgical fixation; fusion

Question 15

-ectasis

Answer 15

stretching out; dilatation; expansion

Question 16

-ectopia

Answer 16

displacement

Question 17

-emia

Answer 17

blood condition

Question 18

-esis

Answer 18

condition

Question 19

-gen

Answer 19

substance or agent that produces or causes

Question 20

-genic

Answer 20

producing; originating; causing

Question 21

-graph

Answer 21

instrument used to record

Question 22

-ia

Answer 22

condition of diseased or abnormal state

Question 23

-ician

Answer 23

one who

Question 24

-ism

Answer 24

state of

Question 25

-lepsy

Answer 25

seizure

Question 26

-lytic

Answer 26

destroy; reduce

Question 27

-mania

Answer 27

madness; insane desire

Question 28

-meter

Answer 28

instrument used to measure

Question 29

-morph

Answer 29

form; shape

Question 30

-odyia

Answer 30

pain

Question 31

-ologist

Answer 31

one who studies and practices (specialist)

Question 32

-oma

Answer 32

tumor; swelling

Question 33

-opsy

Answer 33

to view

Question 34

-orrhaphy

Answer 34

suturing; repairing

Question 35

-orrhexis

Answer 35

rupture

Question 36

-ostomy

Answer 36

creation of an artificial opening

Question 37

-oxia

Answer 37

oxygen

Question 38

-pathy

Answer 38

disease

Question 39

-pepsia

Answer 39

digestion

Question 40

-phagia

Answer 40

eating; swallowing

Question 41

-phily

Answer 41

love

Question 42

-phonia

Answer 42

sound or voice

Question 43

-physis

Answer 43

growth

Question 44

-plasm

Answer 44

growth; substance; formation

Question 45

pplegia

Answer 45

paralysis

Question 46

-poiesis

Answer 46

formation

Question 47

-prandial

Answer 47

meal

Question 48

-ptosis

Answer 48

dropping; sagging; prolapse

Question 49

-salpinx

Answer 49

fallopian tube

Question 50

-schisis

Answer 50

split; fissure

Question 51

-scope

Answer 51

instrument used for visual examination

Question 52

-scopic

Answer 52

visual examination

Question 53

-sis

Answer 53

state of

Question 54

-stasis

Answer 54

control; stop

Question 55

-stenosis

Answer 55

constriction; narrowing

Question 56

-tocia

Answer 56

birth; labor

Question 57

-tripsy

Answer 57

surgical crushing

Question 58

-ule

Answer 58

little

Question 59

-al

Answer 59

pertaining to

Question 60

-ary

Answer 60

pertaining to

Question 61

-ial

Answer 61

pertaining to

Question 62

-ous

Answer 62

pertaining to

Question 63

-algia

Answer 63

pain

Question 64

-ase

Answer 64

enzyme

Question 65

-atresia

Answer 65

absence of a normal body opening; occlusion; closure

Question 66

-cele

Answer 66

hernia; protrusion

Question 67

-cidial

Answer 67

killing

Question 68

-clasis

Answer 68

break

Question 69

-cysis

Answer 69

irrigating; washing

Question 70

-crine

Answer 70

separate; secrete

Question 71

-cyte

Answer 71

cell

Question 72

-drome

Answer 72

run; running

Question 73

-ectomy

Answer 73

excision or surgical removal

Question 74

-emesis

Answer 74

vomiting

Question 75

-er

Answer 75

one who

Question 76

-iasis

Answer 76

condition

Question 77

-genesis

Answer 77

origin; cause

Question 78

-gram

Answer 78

record; x-ray film

Question 79

-graphy

Answer 79

process of recording; x-ray filming

Question 80

-iatry

Answer 80

physician; treatment

Question 81

-ictal

Answer 81

seizure; attack

Question 82

-itis

Answer 82

inflammation

Question 83

-lysis

Answer 83

loosening; dissolution; separating

Question 84

-malaia

Answer 84

softening

Question 85

-megaly

Answer 85

enlargement

Question 86

-metry

Answer 86

measurement

Question 87

-odia

Answer 87

smell

Question 88

-oid

Answer 88

resembling

Question 89

-ology

Answer 89

study of

Question 90

-opia

Answer 90

vision (condition)

Question 91

-oorhagia

Answer 91

rapid flow of blood

Question 92

-orrhea

Answer 92

flow; excessive discharge

Question 93

-osis

Answer 93

abnormal condition (means increased when used with blood cell word roots)

Question 94

-otomy

Answer 94

cut into or incision

Question 95

-paresis

Answer 95

slight paralysis

Question 96

-penia

Answer 96

abnormal reduction in numbers

Question 97

-pexy

Answer 97

surgical fixation; suspension

Question 98

-philia

Answer 98

love

Question 99

-phobia

Answer 99

abnormal fear of or aversion to specific objects or things

Question 100

-phoria

Answer 100

feeling

Question 101

-plasia

Answer 101

formation; development; a growth

Question 102

-plasty

Answer 102

plastic or surgical repair

Question 103

-pnea

Answer 103

breathing

Question 104

-porosis

Answer 104

passage

Question 105

-praxia

Answer 105

in front of; before

Question 106

-ptysis

Answer 106

spitting

Question 107

-sarcoma

Answer 107

malignant tumor

Question 108

-scerosis

Answer 108

hardening

Question 109

-scopy

Answer 109

visual examination

Question 110

-sepsis

Answer 110

infection

Question 111

-spasm

Answer 111

sudden involuntary muscle contraction

Question 112

-stalsis

Answer 112

contraction

Question 113

-thorax

Answer 113

chest

Question 114

-tome

Answer 114

instrument used to cut

Question 115

-tropy

Answer 115

nourishment

Question 116

-uria

Answer 116

urine; urination