Unit 1 - suffixes

Question 1

-ac
-al
-ar
-ary
-eal
-ic
-ous
-tic

Answer 1

pertaining to

Question 2

-algia
-dynia

Answer 2

pain

Question 3

-cele

Answer 3

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

Question 4

-centesis

Answer 4

puncture

Question 5

-cide

Answer 5

killing

Question 6

-cyte

Answer 6

cell

Question 7

-desis

Answer 7

binding (by a disease process)

Question 8

-ectomy

Answer 8

removal (notice ec- in prefixes list means “out of” and -tomy in this list means “cutting” so “cutting out of)

Question 9

-emia

Answer 9

blood condition

Question 10

-genic

Answer 10

creating; giving rise to

Question 11

-gram

Answer 11

written, visual record

Question 12

-graph

Answer 12

instrument used to produce a visual record

Question 13

-graphy

Answer 13

procedure used to produce a visual record

Question 14

-ia
-y

Answer 14

condition; disease; literally “place” (Germany is the place of the Germans)

Question 15

-iasis

Answer 15

presence of

Question 16

-iatrics
-iatry

Answer 16

medical science

Question 17

-iatrist

Answer 17

specialist in the practice of

Question 18

-icle
-ole
-ule
-ula

Answer 18

diminuitive suffix; it makes whatever is in front of it smaller (icicle)

Question 19

-ise
-ize

Answer 19

ending that makes a noun into a verb (e.g., strategy vs strategize)

Question 20

-ism

Answer 20

condition or procedure or belief

Question 21

-ist

Answer 21

specialist

Question 22

-itis

Answer 22

inflammation

Question 23

-ium

Answer 23

tissue or structure

Question 24

-lith

Answer 24

stone

Question 25

-logist

Answer 25

specialist in the study of

Question 26

-logy

Answer 26

study of

Question 27

-lysis -lytic

Answer 27

breakdown; destruction

Question 28

-malacia

Answer 28

softening

Question 29

-megaly

Answer 29

enlargement

Question 30

-meter

Answer 30

intrument for measurement

Question 31

-metry

Answer 31

the process of using an instrument for measurement

Question 32

-oid

Answer 32

resembling

Question 33

-oma

Answer 33

tumor or swelling

Question 34

-osis

Answer 34

condition

Question 35

-pathy

Answer 35

disease

Question 36

-penia

Answer 36

deficiency; lack of

Question 37

-pexy

Answer 37

surgical fixation; binding by a surgical procedure (compare -desis)

Question 38

-plasia

Answer 38

formation, development

Question 39

-plasty

Answer 39

surgical reconstruction or reformation

Question 40

-ptosis

Answer 40

drooping

Question 41

-rrhage -rrhea

Answer 41

excessive flow

Question 42

-rrhaphy

Answer 42

surgical formation of a seam; suturing

Question 43

-rrhexis

Answer 43

rupture

Question 44

-scope

Answer 44

instrument for visualizing something

Question 45

-scopy

Answer 45

process of using an instrument to visualize something

Question 46

-spasm

Answer 46

involuntary contraction

Question 47

-stomy

Answer 47

creation of an opening (see stoma = "mouth")

Question 48

-tion

Answer 48

word ending that makes a noun into a process (form vs formation)

Question 49

-tomy

Answer 49

cut; incision

Question 50

-us

Answer 50

condition