Modern Language for Modern Healthcare, Fifth Edition, David Allan

-tic

Pertaining to

-ist

Specialist

-pathy

Disease

-ology

Study of

-tics

Knowledge of

-logist

Specialist

3 characteristics or rules of suffixes

Can have more than one meaning

Starts with consonant, then add a combining vowel

Starts with a vowel, combining not needed

-chezia

Pass a stool

-crit

To separate

-gram

Record

-graph

Instrument for reading

-lysis

Destruction

-oma

Tumor

-philia

Attraction

-ptysis

Spit

-rrhage

Flow profusely

-rrhoid

To flow

-uria

Urine

-centisis

Surgical puncture

-desis

Fixation

-ectomy

Surgical removal

-plasty

Surgical repair

-rrhaphy

Surgical suture

-stomy

Surgical incision

-tripsy

Crushing

-algia

Pain

-ectasis

Dilation

-edema

Accumulation of fluid

-emesis

Vomiting

-genesis

Form- produce

-itis

Inflammation

-oma

Tumor, mass

-osis

Abnormal condition

-pathy

Disease

-penia

Deficiency, lack of

-phobia

Fear of

-stenosis

Narrowing

-iatry, -istry

Treatment , medical specialty

-ician, -ist

Expert

-icle, -ole, -ule

Small, minute

Adjectival suffixes

Ac, al, ale, alis, ar, aris, ary, atic, active, eal, ent, ial, ic, ica, ical, one, ior, iosum, ious, istic, ius, nic, pus, tic, tiz, tous, us