Suffixes (Unit 3)

Question 1

-ICS

Answer 1

science of, study of

Question 2

-ICIAN

Answer 2

a person who studies or practices

Question 3

-IST

Answer 3

a person who practices or is skilled in

Question 4

-PNEA

Answer 4

breathing

Question 5

-THERAPY, -THERAPEUTIC

Answer 5

medical treatment of; medical treatment by means of

Question 6

-IATRICS

Answer 6

medical treatment of, esp.indicating medical specialty pertaining to the treatment of

Question 7

-OLOGIST

Answer 7

a person who studies or practices

Question 8

-THERAPIST

Answer 8

a person trained or skilled in a type of therapy

Question 9

-PHOBIA

Answer 9

psychiatry: morbid fear of; avoidance of; histology: the quality of staining poorly with a dye

Question 10

-PHOBE

Answer 10

(psychiatry) someone who fears; (histology) something which stains poorly

Question 11

-PHILIA

Answer 11

(in general) love; attraction to, affinity for; (psychiatry) abnormal attraction to; (histology) ability to accept a dye or stain

Question 12

-PHIL, -PHILE

Answer 12

a cell or organism which has an affinity for

Question 13

-CYTHEMIA, -CYTOSIS

Answer 13

an excess of cells in the blood (of a cell type indicated by the base)

Question 14

-LYSIS

Answer 14

destruction, disintegration; breaking down; dissolving, decomposition, loosening

Question 15

-PENIA

Answer 15

lack, deficiency (especially of a type of cell)

Question 16

-PHTHISIS

Answer 16

wasting away, atrophy; tuberculosis

Question 17

-POIESIS

Answer 17

formation, making, production

Question 18

-SCHISIS

Answer 18

splitting, fissure

Question 19

-cide

Answer 19

an agent that kills

Question 20

-IASIS

Answer 20

disease condition or process, esp. parasitic infection

Question 21

-NECROSIS

Answer 21

pathological cell death

Question 22

-PHYLAXIS

Answer 22

protection

Question 23

-PYREXIA

Answer 23

fever

Question 24

-SEPSIS

Answer 24

bacterial infection

Question 25

-TROPH

Answer 25

a bacterium nourished by

Question 26

-MER

Answer 26

molecule composed of repeating units

Question 27

-MERE

Answer 27

part

Question 28

-PHOR, -PHORE

Answer 28

something which bears or carries

Question 29

-SOME

Answer 29

a body or mass

Question 30

-SOMY

Answer 30

the number of copies of a particular chromosome in a cell

Question 31

-valence, -valency,

Answer 31

literally “strength”, technically, chemical combining power

Question 32

-ase

Answer 32

an enzyme

Question 33

-ol

Answer 33

an alcohol

Question 34

-ose

Answer 34

carbohydrate, sugar

Question 35

-ide

Answer 35

name of chemical substance

Question 36

-in, -ine

Answer 36

a chemical substance, often a hormone or protein