Suffixes + Meaning

Medical Terminology for Interpreters, 4th edition | Culture & Language Press

-al

about, related to, pertaining to

-algia

pain

-asthenia

weakness

-centesis

puncture (surgical)

-cide

death, killing

-crin/o

secrete

-ectomy

removal (surgery)

-emesis

vomiting

-emia

blood

-er

person who…, practitioner

-esis

condition of

-genic

origin

-gnosis

knowledge

-gram

a record

-graphy

practice of recording

-ia

condition

-iatrics, -iatry

discipline of medicine

-ic

about, related to, pertaining to

-ism

state, condition

-ist

person who studies or specializes in a certain subject or discipline, practitioner

-itis

inflammation

-lepsis

seizure

-logist

person who studies or specializes in a certain subject or discipline

-logy

study, science of, practice of

-lysis

destruction

-meter

measure, instrument used to measure

-metry

measuring

-oid

similar, resembling like

-oma

swelling, tumor

-ose

sugar

-osis

abnormal condition

-ostomy

creation of an opening

-ous

pertaining to

-pathy

disease

-philia

attraction for

phylactic

protective, preventive

-phylaxis

protection

-plasia

formation, development

-plasty

repair through surgery

-plegia

paralysis, stroke

-rraghia

abnormal/excessive flow

-rrhea

flow, discharge

-scope

insturment of examining

-scopy

examining by instrument

-stasis

to stop

-stenosis

narrowing

-thermy

heat

-tion

condition, state

-trophy

nutrition, development