Suffixes (Unit 3) Flashcards
-ICS
science of, study of
-ICIAN
a person who studies or practices
-IST
a person who practices or is skilled in
-PNEA
breathing
-THERAPY, -THERAPEUTIC
medical treatment of; medical treatment by means of
-IATRICS
medical treatment of, esp.indicating medical specialty pertaining to the treatment of
-OLOGIST
a person who studies or practices
-THERAPIST
a person trained or skilled in a type of therapy
-PHOBIA
psychiatry: morbid fear of; avoidance of; histology: the quality of staining poorly with a dye
-PHOBE
(psychiatry) someone who fears; (histology) something which stains poorly
-PHILIA
(in general) love; attraction to, affinity for; (psychiatry) abnormal attraction to; (histology) ability to accept a dye or stain
-PHIL, -PHILE
a cell or organism which has an affinity for
-CYTHEMIA, -CYTOSIS
an excess of cells in the blood (of a cell type indicated by the base)
-LYSIS
destruction, disintegration; breaking down; dissolving, decomposition, loosening
-PENIA
lack, deficiency (especially of a type of cell)
-PHTHISIS
wasting away, atrophy; tuberculosis
-POIESIS
formation, making, production
-SCHISIS
splitting, fissure
-cide
an agent that kills
-IASIS
disease condition or process, esp. parasitic infection
-NECROSIS
pathological cell death
-PHYLAXIS
protection
-PYREXIA
fever
-SEPSIS
bacterial infection
-TROPH
a bacterium nourished by
-MER
molecule composed of repeating units
-MERE
part
-PHOR, -PHORE
something which bears or carries
-SOME
a body or mass
-SOMY
the number of copies of a particular chromosome in a cell
-valence, -valency,
literally “strength”, technically, chemical combining power
-ase
an enzyme
-ol
an alcohol
-ose
carbohydrate, sugar
-ide
name of chemical substance
-in, -ine
a chemical substance, often a hormone or protein
