Med Term - Suffixes

Suffixe on this

Logy

process of study

Itis

inflammation

Emia

a condition of the blood

Gram

record

Cyte

Cell

Genic

creating/causing

Globin

Protein

Is

condition

ectomy

surgically remove

algia

pain

dynia

pain

cele

hernia

centesis

puncture to remove fluid

lysis

breakdown, destruction, separation

malacia

softening

megaly

enlargement

oma

tumor, mass, collection of fluid

opsy

to view

osis

condition (usually abnormal)

pathy

disease condition

penia

deficiency

plascia

development, formation, growth

plasty

surgical repair

ptosis

dropping, falling, prolapse

rrhea

flow, discharge

sclerosis

hardening

scope

instrument for visual examination

stasis

controlling, stopping

stomy

opening to form a mouth

therapy

treatment

tomy

incision, cutting into

trophy

development, nourishment

er

one who

ia

condition

ist

specialist

oid

resembling, derived from

ole or ule

little, small

um or ium

structure, tissue

us

structure, substance

ac, iac, al, ar, ary, eal, ic, ical, ose, ous, tic

pertaining to

crine

secrete

drone

run

gen

substance that produces

lapse

slide, fall

oxia

oxygen

partum

birth

phoria

bear, carry, feeling

physis

grow

plasm

structure, formation

pnea

breathing

ptom

happening, occurring

ostomy

hole, opening

ase

enzyme

chezia

defecation

prandial

meal

iasis

abnormal condition

emesis

vomitting

pepsia

digestion

phagia

eating, swallowing

rrhage or rrahgia

bursting forth (blood)

rrhapty

suture

stenosis

narrowing, tightening

tresia

opening

arche

beginning

cyesis/gravida

pregnancy

parous

bearing, bringing forth

tocia

labor, birth

version

act of turning

pareunia

intercourse

one

hormone

pexy

fixation, put in place

algesia

sensitivity to pain

esthesia

feeling, nervous sensation

kinesia, kinesis, kentic

movement

lepsy

seizure

parasis

weakness

lexia

word, phrase

phasia

speech

plegia

paralysis

praxia

action

sthenia

strength

ema

condition

osmia

smell

ptysis

spitting

sphyxia

pulse

thorax

pleural cavity, chest