Medical Terminology - Suffixes

-acusis

hearing

-ad

toward

-algia

pain

-algesia

pain

-arche

beginning

-asthenia

weakness

-blast

embryonic cell

-cardia

heart condition

-cele

hernia

-centesis

surgical puncture

-cide

killing

-clast

to break, surgical fracture

-crine

to secrete

-cyesis

pregnancy

-cyte

cell

-derma

skin condition

-dipsia

thirst

-dynia

pain

-ectasis

dilation, expansion

-ectomy

excision, removal

-edema

swelling

-emesis

vomiting

-emia

blood condition

-esthesia

feeling, sensation

-gen

forming, producing, origin

-genesis

forming, producing, origin

-gnosis

knowing

-graft

transplantation

-gram

record, writing

-graph

instrument for recording

-graphy

process of recording

-gravida

pregnant woman

-iasis

abnormal condition

-ism

state or condition

-ist

specialist

-itis

inflammation

-lepsy

seizure

-lith

stone, calculus

-logist

specialist in the study of

-logy

the study of

-lysis

separation, destruction, dissolving

-malacia

softening

-megaly

enlargement

-meter

instrument for measuring

-metry

act of measuring

-oid

resembling

-ole

small

-oma

tumor

-opia

vision

-opsia

vision

-orexia

appetite

-osis

abnormal condition increase (with blood cell words)

-osmia

smell

-oxia

oxygen

-para

to bear (offspring)

-paresis

partial paralysis

-pathy

disease

-penia

decrease, dificiency

-pepsia

digestion

-pexy

fixation (of an organ)

-phagia

swallowing, eating

-phasia

speech

-philia

attraction to

-phobia

fear

-phylaxis

protection

-plasia

growth, formation

-plasm

growth, formation

-plasty

surgical repair

-plegia

paralysis

-pnea

breathing

-poiesis

formation

-porosis

porous

-prandial

meal

-ptosis

prolapse, downward displacement

-ptysis

spitting

-rrhage

bursting forth of

-rrhagia

bursting forth of

rrhaphy

suture

-rrhea

flow, discharge

-rrhexis

rupture

-sarcoma

malignant tumor of connective tissue

-scope

instrument for examining

-scopy

visual examination

-spasm

twitching, involuntary contraction

-stasis

standing still

-stenosis

narrowing, stricture

-stomy

forming an opening

-tension

pressure

-therapy

treatment

-thorax

chest

-tocia

labor, childbirth

-tome

instrument to cut

-tomy

incision

-toxic

poison

-tripsy

crushing

-trophy

development, nutrition

-tropia

turning

-ule

small

-um

structure

-uria

urine