Suffixes Flashcards
-phobia
fear
-plasm
formation
-plasty
operative revision
-plegia
paralysis
-rrhage
busting forth
-rrhea
hemorrhage; flow
-sclerosis
hardening
-scope
instrument to examine
-scopy
visual examination
-somes
bodies
-spasm
contraction
-stasis
stoppage
-stomy
new opening
-tomy
process of cutting
-type
picture; classification
-uria
urination; condition
-y
process; condition
-algia
pain
-cele
hernia
-cide
kill
-crine
to secrete; separate
-ectomy
removal; excision
-emia
blood condition
-esthesia
nervous sensation
-form
resembling; in the shape of
-gene, -genic
production; orgin
-gram
record
-graph
instrument for record
-iasis
abnormal condition
-itis
inflammation
-ism
process; condition
-lepsy
seizure
-logy
study of
-lysis
breakdown; destruction
-mainia
obsessive preoccupation
-megaly
enlargement
-meter
measure
-oma
tumor
-opia
vision condition
-opsy
view of
-orexia
appetite
-osis
condition; usually abnormal
-pathy
disease
-penia
too few