Suffixes Flashcards
-algia
pain
-arche
beginning
-asthenia
weakness
-blast
formative cell
-cele
hernia, tumour, swelling, protrusion
-cidal
to kill or destroy
-cyte
cell
-cytosis
abnormal increase in amount of cells
-dipsia
thirst
-dynia
painful
-emesis
vomiting
-emia
blood condition
-esthesia
sensation
-genic
origin, beginners, formation, producing, causing
-itis
inflammation
-malacia
softening
-mania
madness, obsession
-megaly
enlargement
-oma
tumour, swelling
-paresis
slight paralysis
-pathy
disease condition
-penia
lack of, deficient
-phobia
abnormal fear, aversion
-plegia
paralysis
-pnea
air, breath
-ptosis
drooping, sagging, downward displacement
-ptysis
spitting
-rrhage
rupture, profuse flow
-rrhagia
rupture, profuse flow
-rrhea
to flow, discharge
-rrhexis
rupture
-sclerosis
hardening
-spasm
involuntary contraction
-stasis
stopping or controlling flow of fluid
-staxis
bursting forth, hemorrhage
-stenosis
narrowing
-taxia
coordinations, order, arrangement
-therapy
treatment
-thorax
chest
-tocia
labour, child birth
-trophy
nourishment
-tropia
to turn
-uria
urination
-xerosis
dryness