medical terminology suffixes

-age

Related to

-cidal/-cide

Pertaining to killing

-form

Shape

-fuge

Driving away

-iatry/-iatrist

Healing by a provider or healer

-ical

Pertaining to

-ion

Process

-logy/-logist

Study of / One who studies

-ole

Little/small

-opia

Vision

-phylaxis

Protection/prevention

-pnea

Breathing

-therapy

Treatment

-uria

Urine

-centesis

Surgical puncture

-cise

Cut/remove

-clasis

surgical breaking

-desis

Stabilization/binding/fusion

-ectomy

Removal/excision

-gram

Record

-graph

Instrument for recording

-graphy

Process of recording

-ion

Process

-lepsy

Seizure/convulsion

-lysis

Destruction/separation

-meter

Device for measuring

-metry

Process of measuring

-pexy

Fixation/to put in place

-plasty

Surgical repair or reformation

-scopy

Visual examination

-spasm

Involuntary twitch

-stasis

Stopping or controlling

-stomy

create an opening

-tomy

Incision into

-tripsy

Crushing

-algia

pain

-asthenia

weakness

-cele

swelling/herniation

-dynia

pain

-ectasis

dilation/expansion

-emesis

vomiting

-emia

blood condition

-gen

producing

-ia, -ism

condition of

-iasis

presence of, formation of

-itis

inflammation

-malacia

softening or weakening of

-mania

obsessive preoccupation

-megaly

enlargement

-old

seeming like

-ole

small

-oma

tumor

-osis

abnormal condition

-pathy

disease or disorder

-penia

deficiency, decrease

-phagia

eating/swallowing

-phasia

speech

-phobia

fear

-plasia

formation/development

-plegia

paralysis

-ptosis

drooping, falling

-rrhage

bursting forth

-rrhea

flow/discharge

-rrhexis

rupture

-sclerosis

hardening condition

-trophy

growth/development