Suffixes: NRSG 1710 Medical terminology

-able

able to

-algia

pain

-cele

hernia, swelling

-centesis

surgical puncture

-cide

destructive, killing

-cule

little

-cyte

cell

-ectasia

expansion, dialation

-ectomy

excision

-emia

blood

-esis

action

-form

shaped like

-genesis

origin, formation

-graph

writing

-iasis -ism

condition

-itis

inflammation

-ize

to treat

-lith

stone

-lysis

disintegration

-malacia

softening

-megaly

enlargement

-meter

measuring instrument

-oid

resemblance, likeness

-oma

tumor

-opathy, -pathy

any disease of 

-orrhaphy

surgical repair

-osis

disease

-ostomy, -stomy

to form an opening 

-penia

deficiency, decrease

-phage

ingesting

-phobia

fear

-plasty

plastic surgery

-plegia

paralysis

-rhage

hemorrhage

-rhea

excessive discharge

-rhexis

rupture

-scope

lighted instrument

-scopy

to examine visually

-spasm

involuntary contraction

-uria

urine