Unit 3: Cells, Tissues, & Physiology-Suffixes Flashcards
-ase
Word ending for enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions
-blast
Rapidly dividing cell
-cyte
cell
-elle
Diminutive suffix: it makes whatever is in front of it smaller
-icle
Diminutive suffix: it makes whatever is in front of it smaller
-iculum
Diminutive suffix: it makes whatever is in front of it smaller
-ion
Diminutive suffix: it makes whatever is in front of it smaller
-ole
Diminutive suffix: it makes whatever is in front of it smaller
-ule
Diminutive suffix: it makes whatever is in front of it smaller
-ular
Diminutive suffix: it makes whatever is in front of it smaller
-ulum
Diminutive suffix: it makes whatever is in front of it smaller
-ic
Referring to
-gen
Creation or creating; giving rise to
-genic
Creation or creating; giving rise to
-genesis
Creation or creating; giving rise to
-genous
Creation or creating; giving rise to
-id
Word ending for many chemicals
-ide
Word ending for many chemicals
-tide
Word ending for many chemicals
-in
Word ending commonly used to indicate a protein (sometimes used for general non- protein chemicles)
-ein
Word ending commonly used to indicate a protein
-globulin
Word ending commonly used to indicate a protein
-ine
Word ending commonly used to indicate an amino acid, one of the building blocks of proteins
-ium
Tissue or structure
-lysis
Breakdown; destruction
-oid
resembling
-ol
word ending used to commonly indicate alcohol
-olus
smaller
-oma
tumor or swelling
-ose
Word ending commonly used to indicate a sugar
-osis
process
-ote
type of cell
-penia
deficiency; lack of
-poiesis
process of creation
-some
body
