Compound Suffix Forms

-ectasia, -ectasis

dilation, enlargement

-ectomy

surgical excision; removal of all (total excision) or part (partial excision) of an organ

-gen

substance that produces (something)

-genesis

formation, origin

-genic

causing, producing, caused

-genous

by, produced by or in

-gram

a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray)

-graph

an instrument for recording the activity of an organ

-graphy

the recording of the activity of an organ (usually x-ray examination); a descriptive treatise (on a subject)

-lysis

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration

-pathy

disease

-ptosis

dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part)

-rrhagia

profuse discharge, hemorrhage

-rrhea

profuse discharge, excessive secretion

-rrhexis

bursting (of tissues), rupture

-scope

an instrument for examining -

-scopy

examination

-tome

a surgical instrument for cutting

-tomy

surgical incision

-lytic

pertaining to dissolution, decomposition, or disintegration. It also forms adjectives from words ending in -LYSIS