Chapter 2 - Suffixes

FA Davis

hemat/o

blood

-logy

study of

-emesis

vomiting

-dynia

pain

-centesis

surgical puncture

encephal/o

brain

mening-

meninges

-pathy

disease

-clasis

to break; surgical fracture

-desis

binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)

-ectomy

excision, removal

-lysis

separation; destruction; loosening

-pexy

fixation (of an organ)

-plasty

surgical repair

-rrhaphy

suture

-stomy

forming an opening (mouth) (hole that has already been made)

-tome

instrument to cut

-tomy

incision (hole being made)

-tripsy

crushing

-gram

record, writing

-graph

instrument for recording

-graphy

process of recording

-scope

instrument for examining

-scopy

visual examination

-algia

pain

-dynia

pain

-cele

hernia, swelling

-ectasis

dilation, expansion

-emia

blood condition

-gen

Substance that causes the formation or production of something

-genesis

The process of a formation or transformation of something into something else or the formation or production of something

-itis

inflammation

-malacia

softening

-megaly

enlargement

-oma

tumor

-osis

abnormal condition, increase (primarily used with blood cells)

-penia

decrease, deficiency

-phobia

fear

-plegia

paralysis

-ptosis

prolapse, downward displacement

-rrhea

discharge, flow

-rrhexis

rupture

-sclerosis

abnormal condition of hardening

-spasm

involuntary contraction, twitching

-stenosis

narrowing, stricture

-toxic

poison

-ac

pertaining to

-al

pertaining to

-ar

pertaining to

-ary

pertaining to

-eal

pertaining to

-ic

pertaining to

-ior

pertaining to

-ous

pertaining to

-tic

pertaining to

-ia

condition

-ism

condition

-iatry

medical specialty

-ist

medical specialist

-icle

small; minute

-ole

small, narrow, minute

-ule

small, minute, narrow