Suffixes MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

-gen

substance that produces

-gram

record

-ole or -ule

little, small

-icle

small, minute

-penia

deficiency

-itis

inflammation

-ist

a specialist

-phobia

fear

-genic

pertaining to, producing, produced by or in

-scopy

process of visual examination

-clasis

break, surgical fracture

-lapse

slide, fall, sag

-graphy

process of recording

-cele

hernia

-opsy

to view

-stomy

opening to form a mouth

-algia -dynia

pain

-malacia

softening

-genesis

condition of producing, forming (bone formation)

-ose

pertaining to, full of

Adjective

-ac -al -an -ar -ary -eal -iac -ial -ic -ical -ine -ior -ory -ous -tic

-graph

instrument for recording

-emesis

vomiting

-pexy

fixation (of an organ)

-sclerosis

hardening

-rrhaphy

suture

-tomy

process of cutting, incision

-ptosis

drooping, falling, or prolapse

-drome

to run

-toxic

poison

-mission

send

-ptom

happening, occurence

-plasty

surgical repair

-er and -or

one who

-lysis

breakdown, destruction, separation

-emia

blood condition

-centesis

puncture to remove fluid

-pathy

disease/ condition

-desis

binding, fixation ( of a bone or joint)

-us

structure, substance

-logy

study of

-oma

tumor, mass, collection of fluid

-stenosis

narrowing, stricture

-spasm

involuntary contraction, twitching

-y

process, condition

-ium

structure, tissue

-ectasis/sia

dilation, expansion

-megaly

enlargement

abnormal condition or disease

-ago -esis -ia -iasis -ion -ism -osis

-rrhexis

rupture

-sis

state of, condition

-tome

instrument to cut

-mission

send

-plegia

paralysis

-iatry

medicine, treatment

-plasia

development, formation, growth (cell formation)

-ectomy

excision, removal

-scope

instrument for visual examination

-a -e -um

noun endings

-tripsy

crushing or to break up