Ch. 6 Orthopedics Suffix and prefix

Medical Terminology

-asthenia

weakness condition

-centesis

puncture to withdraw fluid

-clasia

surgical breaking

-cyte

cell

-desis

surgical fusion

-dynia

pain condition

-eal

pertaining to

-ectomy

surgical removal

-genic

pertaining to producing

-gram

a record

-graphy

process of recording

-ic

pertaining to

-ion

action

-itis

inflammation

-kinesia

movement condition

-malacia

abnormally soft condition

-metry

process of measuring

-oma

mass, tumor

-osis

abnormal condition

-ous

pertaining to

-pathy

disease

-plasty

surgical repair

-porosis

porous

-rrhaphy

to suture

-rrhexis

rupture

-scope

instrument for viewing

-scopy

process of visually examining

-tome

instrument to cut

-tomy

cutting into

-trophy

development

a-

without

ab-

away from

ad-

toward

brady-

slow

dys-

abnormal, difficult, painful

e-

outward

hyper-

excessive

in-

inward, not

inter-

between

intra-

within

per-

through

pseudo-

false

sub-

under

supra-

above