Unit 1: Medical English-Suffixes

Question 1

-ac

Answer 1

pertaining to

Question 2

-al

Answer 2

pertaining to

Question 3

-ar

Answer 3

pertaining to

Question 4

-ary

Answer 4

pertaining to

Question 5

-eal

Answer 5

pertaining to

Question 6

-ic

Answer 6

pertaining to

Question 7

-ous

Answer 7

pertaining to

Question 8

-tic

Answer 8

pertaining to

Question 9

-algia

Answer 9

pain

Question 10

-dynia

Answer 10

pain

Question 11

-cele

Answer 11

hernia (something that sicks out where it shouldn’t)

Question 12

-centesis

Answer 12

puncture

Question 13

-cide

Answer 13

killing

Question 14

-cyte

Answer 14

cell

Question 15

-desis

Answer 15

binding (by a disease process)

Question 16

-ectomy

Answer 16

removal

Question 17

-emia

Answer 17

blood condition

Question 18

-genic

Answer 18

creating; giving rise to

Question 19

-gram

Answer 19

written, visual record

Question 20

-graph

Answer 20

instrument used to produce a visual record

Question 21

-graphy

Answer 21

procedure used to produce a visual record

Question 22

-ia

Answer 22

condition; disease

Question 23

-y

Answer 23

condition; disease

Question 24

-iasis

Answer 24

presence of

Question 25

-iatrics

Answer 25

medical science

Question 26

-iatry

Answer 26

medical science

Question 27

-iatrist

Answer 27

specialist in the practice of

Question 28

-icle

Answer 28

diminutive suffix; it makes whatever is in front of it smaller

Question 29

-ole

Answer 29

diminutive suffix; it makes whatever is in front of it smaller

Question 30

-ule

Answer 30

diminutive suffix; it makes whatever is in front of it smaller

Question 31

-ula

Answer 31

diminutive suffix; it makes whatever is in front of it smaller

Question 32

-ise

Answer 32

ending that makes a noun into a verb

Question 33

-ize

Answer 33

ending that makes a noun into a verb

Question 34

-ism

Answer 34

condition or procedure or beleif

Question 35

-ist

Answer 35

specialist

Question 36

-itis

Answer 36

inflammation

Question 37

-ium

Answer 37

tissue or structure

Question 38

-lith

Answer 38

stone

Question 39

-logist

Answer 39

specialist in the study of

Question 40

-logy

Answer 40

study of

Question 41

-us

Answer 41

condition

Question 42

-tomy

Answer 42

cut; incision

Question 43

-tion

Answer 43

word ending that makes a noun into a process

Question 44

-stomy

Answer 44

creation of an opening

Question 45

-spasm

Answer 45

involuntary contraction

Question 46

-scopy

Answer 46

process of using an instrument to visualize something

Question 47

-scope

Answer 47

instrument for visualizing something

Question 48

-rrehxis

Answer 48

rupture

Question 49

-rrhaphy

Answer 49

surgical formation of a seam; suturing

Question 50

-rrhage

Answer 50

excessive flow

such as: hemorrhage

Question 51

-rrhea

Answer 51

excessive flow

such as: Diarrhea

Question 52

-ptosis

Answer 52

drooping

Question 53

-plasty

Answer 53

surgical reconstruction or reformation

Question 54

-plasia

Answer 54

formation, development, growth

Question 55

-pexy

Answer 55

surgical fixation; binding by a surgical procedure

Question 56

-penia

Answer 56

deficiency; lack of

Question 57

-pathy

Answer 57

disease

Question 58

-osis

Answer 58

condition

Question 59

-oma

Answer 59

tumor or swelling

Question 60

-oid

Answer 60

resembling

Question 61

-metry

Answer 61

the process of usinng an instrument for measuring

Question 62

-meter

Answer 62

instrument for measurment

Question 63

-megaly

Answer 63

enlargement

Question 64

-malacia

Answer 64

softening

Question 65

-lysis

Answer 65

breakdown; destruction

Question 66

-lytic

Answer 66

breakdown; destruction