HSC3537 Chapter 2

-desis

binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)

-emia

blood condition

-clasis

to break; surgical fracture

-lysis

breakdown, destruction, separation

-gensis

condition of producing, forming

-tripsy

crushing

-penia

deficiency

-ectasis ; -ectasia

dilation, expansion

-pathy

disease condition

-ptosis

drooping, falling, prolapse

-megaly

enlargement

-ectomy

excision, removal

-phobia

fear

-pexy

fixation (of an organ)

-rrhea

flow, discharge

-sclerosis

hardening

-cele

hernia

-itis

inflammation

-graph

instrument for recording

-scope

instrument for visual examination

-tome

instrument to cut

-spasm

involuntary contraction; twitching

-ole ; -ule

little, small

-iatry

medicine, treatment

-stenosis

narrowing, stricture

-stomy

surgically made opening to form a (stoma)

-algia ; -dynia

pain

-plegia

paralysis

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

pertaining to

-toxic

poison

-tomy

process of cutting, incision

-graphy

process of recording

-scopy

process of visual examination

-y

condition, process

-centesis

puncture to remove fluid

-gram

record

-rrhexis

rupture

-icle

small, minute

-malacia

softening

-ist

specialist

-plasty

surgical repair

-gen

substance that produces

-rrhaphy

suture

-oma

tumor, mass, collection of fluid

-emesis

vomiting

-plasia

development, formation, growth

-ptom

happening, occurrence

-er

one who

-or

one who

-ose

pertaining to, full of

-genic

pertaining to, producing, produced by, or produced in

-drome

run

-mission

to send

-lapse

to slide, fall, sag

-sis

state of, condition

-us

structure, substance

-ium

structure, tissue

-logy

study of

-opsy

view

-a ; -e ; -um

noun endings, creates a name for an item when attached to a root word

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

abnormal condition or disease