Suffixes: Body Processes Flashcards
1
Q
immature, forming
A
-blast
2
Q
destroying, killing
A
-cidal, -cide
3
Q
secreting
A
-crine
4
Q
softening
A
-malacia
5
Q
bearing, given birth
A
-para
6
Q
bearing, producing offspring
A
-parous
7
Q
digestion
A
-pepsia
8
Q
eating, devouring
A
-phage, -phagia
9
Q
speaking
A
-phasia
10
Q
carrying
A
-phoresis
11
Q
formation, development, growth
A
-plasia
12
Q
forming
A
-platic
13
Q
breath
A
-pnea
14
Q
production, formation
A
-poiesis
15
Q
pertaining to production
A
-poietic
16
Q
substance that produces
A
-poietin
17
Q
lessing in density
A
-porosis
18
Q
discharging heavily
A
-rrhage
19
Q
a flowing, a flux
A
-rrhea
20
Q
splitting
A
-schisis
21
Q
sleep
A
-somnia
22
Q
contraction
A
-spasm
23
Q
contraction
A
-stalsis
24
Q
stopping, constant, static
A
-stasis
25
narrowing
-stenosis
