Unit 6: Suffixes; Lymphatic & Immune system

-al,-ar,-ic,-ical,-tic

pertaining to

-ation

process; condition

-blast

developing cell

-capnia

carbon dioxide

-cide

to kill

-crit

to seperate

-cyte

cell

-e

noun suffix with no meaning

-ectomy

surgical removal; excision

-emia

blood condition

-fuge

to seperate by spinning

-fusion

to pour; to come tg

-gen

substance that produces

-globulin

protein

-ia

condition

-in, -ine

chemical; chemical compound; substane

-itis

inflammation

-logist

specialist

-logy

study of

-lysis

breakdown; seperation; loosening

-megaly

enlargement

-oma

tumor;mass

-osis

process; abnormal condition

-pathy

disease

-penia

deficiency

-phage

eat; swallow

-pheresis

removal

-phil, -philia

love; attraction for

-phoresis

transmission; carrying

-plasm

formation;structure-p

-plastic

pertaining to formation

-plasty

surgical repair

-poeisis

formation

-rrhage

rupture; bursting forth (of blood)

-sis

state; condition

-stasis

stoppage of flow