Suffixes Flashcards
1
Q
-rhea
A
excessive discharge
2
Q
-plasty
A
-plastic surgery
3
Q
-meter
A
measuring instrument
4
Q
-iasis, -ism
A
condition
5
Q
-lith
A
stone
6
Q
-phobia
A
fear
7
Q
-oid
A
resemblance, likeness
8
Q
-cide
A
destructive, killing
9
Q
-rhexis
A
rupture
10
Q
-cule
A
litte
11
Q
-plegia
A
paralysis
12
Q
-itis
A
inflammation
13
Q
-esis
A
action
14
Q
-cele
A
swelling, tumor
15
Q
-spasm
A
involuntary contraction
16
Q
-centesis
A
surgical puncture
17
Q
-uria
A
urine
18
Q
-orrhaphy
A
surgical repair
19
Q
-phage
A
ingesting
20
Q
-penia
A
deficiency, decrease
21
Q
-able
A
able to
22
Q
-osis
A
disease
23
Q
-oma
A
tumor
24
Q
-cyte
A
cell
25
-megaly
enlargement
26
-malacia
softening
27
-scopy
to examine visually
28
-lysis
disintegration
29
-form
shaped like
30
-scope
lighted instrument
31
-ectomy
excision
32
-ectasia
expansion, dilation
33
-emia
blood
34
-ize
to treat
35
-opathy, -pathy
any disease of
36
-algia
pain
37
-genesis
origin, formation
38
-rhage
hemorrhage
39
-graph
writing
40
-ostomy, -stomy
to form an opening
