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Joint
Carcin
Cancer
Cardi
Heart
Cephal
Head
Electr
electricity
Gastr
stomach
Hepat
liver
Osteo
Bone
Rhin
Nose
Suffixes
Provide information about the word root related to: conditions, diseases, procedures
-ectomy
surgical removal
-gram
A record
-itis
inflammation
-logy
study of
-megaly
enlarged
-pathy
disease
Prefixes
Provide information about the word root related to: abnormal conditions, numbers, positions, times. Many medical terms do not have a prefix
A-
Without
Bi-
Two
Dys-
abnormal, difficult, painful
Inter-
between
Post-
After
Sub-
under
-algia
Pain
-astenia
Weakness
-cele
protrusion
-dynia
Pain
-cytosis
abnormal cell condition (too many)
-ectasis
dilated
-edema
swelling
-emesis
vomiting
-emetic
pertaining to vomiting
-emia
blood condition
-ia
condition
-iasis
abnormal condition
-ism
state of
-itis
inflammation
-lith
stone
-lysis
To destroy
-lytic
destruction
-malacia
abnormal softening
-megaly
enlarged
-oma
tumor, mass
-osis
abnormal condition
-pathy
disease
-penia
too few
-phobia
fear
-plegia
paralysis
-ptosis
drooping
-rrhage
abnormal flow
-rrhagia
abnormal flow condition
-rrhea
discharge
-rrhexis
rupture
-sclerosis
hardening
-spasm
involuntary muscle contraction
-stasis
stopping
-stenosis
narrowing
-toxic
poison
-uria
urine condition
-clasia
surgical breaking
-desis
surgical fusing
-ectomy
surgical removal
-ostomy
surgically create an opening
-otomy
cutting into
-pexy
surgical fixation
-plasty
surgical repair
-rrhaphy
To suture
-tome
instrument to cut
-tripsy
surgical crushing
-centesis
puncture to withdraw fluid
-gram
A record
-graph
instrument for recording
-graphy
process of recording
manometer
instrument for measuring pressure
meter
instrument for measuring
-metry
process of measuring
-scope
instrument for viewing
-scopy
process of visually examining
-cle
small
-cyesis
pregnancy
-cyte
cell
-derma
skin condition
-dipsia
thirst
-esthesia
feeling, sensation