Suffixes- Diagnostic, Pathological, and Related

Question 1

-gram

Answer 1

record, writing (electrocardiogram)

Question 2

-graph

Answer 2

instrument for recording (cardiograph)

Question 3

-graphy

Answer 3

process of recording (angiography)

Question 4

-meter

Answer 4

instrument for measuring (pelvimeter)

Question 5

-metry

Answer 5

act of measuring (pelvimetry)

Question 6

-scope

Answer 6

instrument for examining (endoscope)

Question 7

-scopy

Answer 7

visual examination (endoscopy)

Question 8

-algia; -dynia

Answer 8

pain (neuralgia, otodynia)

Question 9

-cele

Answer 9

hernia, swelling (hepatocele)

Question 10

-ectasis

Answer 10

dilation, expansion (bronchiectasis)

Question 11

-edema

Answer 11

swelling (lymphedema)

Question 12

-emesis

Answer 12

vomiting (hyperemesis)

Question 13

-emia

Answer 13

blood condition (anemia)

Question 14

-gen; -genesis

Answer 14

forming, producing, origin (carcinogen, carcinogenesis)

Question 15

-iasis

Answer 15

abnormal condition produced by something specific (cholelithiasis)

Question 16

-itis

Answer 16

inflammation (gastritis)

Question 17

-lith

Answer 17

stone, calculus (cholelith)

Question 18

-malacia

Answer 18

softening (chondromalacia)

Question 19

-megaly

Answer 19

enlargement (cardiomegaly)

Question 20

-oma

Answer 20

tumor (neuroma)

Question 21

-osis

Answer 21

abnormal condition; increase, primarily used with blood cells (cyanosis)

Question 22

-pathy

Answer 22

disease (myopathy)

Question 23

-penia

Answer 23

decrease, deficiency (erythropenia)

Question 24

-phagia

Answer 24

eating, swallowing (dysphagia)

Question 25

-phasia

Answer 25

speech (aphasia)

Question 26

-phobia

Answer 26

fear (hemophobia)

Question 27

-plasia; -plasm

Answer 27

formation, growth (dysplasia, neoplasm)

Question 28

-plegia

Answer 28

paralysis (hemiplegia)

Question 29

-ptosis

Answer 29

prolapse, downward displacement (blepharoptosis)

Question 30

-rrhage; -rrhagia

Answer 30

bursting forth (of) (hemorrhage, menorrhagia

Question 31

-rrhea

Answer 31

discharge, flow (diarrhea)

Question 32

-rrhexis

Answer 32

rupture (arteriorrhexis)

Question 33

-scerlosis

Answer 33

abnormal condition of hardening (arterioscerlosis)

Question 34

-spasm

Answer 34

involuntary contraction, twitching (blepharospasm)

Question 35

-stenosis

Answer 35

narrowing, stricture (arteriostenosis)

Question 36

-toxic

Answer 36

poison (hepatotoxic)

Question 37

-trophy

Answer 37

nourishment, development (dystrophy)