Medical Suffixes

al, ic, and or

pertaining to (ex. perianal: pertaining to the area around the anus, thoracic: pertaining to the chest)

ia

a condition of (ex. anesthesia: a condition of having no sensation)

itis

inflammation (ex. nephritis: inflammation of the kidney)

metry, meter

measurement, measure

algia or algesia

pain

oid

shape

aemia/emia

blood

oma

tumor

aesthesia

sensation

or

pertaining to

ase

enzyme

osis or iasis

abnormal condition

asthenia

weakness, loss of strength

ostomy

opening; forming; 'to make a mouth'.

centesis

to puncture

otomy

cutting into

cele

hernia, abnormal protrusion

para

has given birth to live offspring

cise

cut

paresis

weakness

cyte

cell

pareunia, coitus

intercourse (sexual)

dynia

pain

pathy

disease, abnormality

ectomy

surgical removal

penia

lack

emes/is

vomit/vomiting

pexy

to surgically reattach/fix in position

ethesia

feeling; sensation

phobia

fear

genic

causing

plasia

development, formation, growth

gogue

to make flow

plasm

to mold

gram

the image (X-ray)

plasty

reconstruction

graphy/graph

recording an image

plegia

paralysis

gravida

pregnant woman

porosis

porous

ptysis

spitting (coughing)

it is

inflammation

rhea/rrhea

flow; discharge

ism

condition; theory

rrhaphy

to suture a tear

kinesis

movement

scopy/scopic

see; to look, observe

lysis

disintegration

stasis

to stop

logy

science of

trophic

related to measuring

malacia

softening

trophy

development, stimulation