Medical Terminology Suffixes chp 3

A comprehensive set of vocabulary flashcards featuring medical suffixes and their meanings.

-algia

pain

-asthenia

weakness

-desis

binding, fusion

-dynia

pain

-esthesia

sensation

-kinesia, -kinesis

movement

-phobia

fear

-phonia

sound

-phoria

feeling, carrying

-cele

hernia

-cytosis

condition of cells

-ectasia, -ectasis

expansion, dilation

-edema

swelling

-ema

condition

-emesis

vomiting

-iasis

pathological condition or state, presence of

-ism

condition, disease

-itis (pl. -ites)

inflammation

-lepsy

seizures

-leptic

pertaining to seizures

-lithiasis

presence of stones

-mania

obsession, madness

-paresis

slight paralysis, feelings of numbness and tingling

-pathy

abnormal condition, disease process

-penia

deficiency, small, fewer

-megaly

enlargement

-oma (pl. -omae)

tumor, neoplasm

-opia, -opsia

vision

-osis (pl. -oses)

condition, state, process

-philia

attraction, affinity for

-phrenia

of the mind

-phthisis

wasting away

-physis

growing

-plegia

paralysis

-plegic

pertaining to paralysis

-ptosis

falling down, drooping

-rrhea

to flow or discharge

-rrhagia

excessive bleeding (amount and/or frequency)

-rrhexis

rupture

-trophic

pertaining to nutrition

-trophy

nutrition

-blast

immature, forming

-cidal, -cide

destroying, killing

-crine

secreting

-malacia

softening

-para

bearing, given birth

-parous

bearing, producing offspring

-pepsia

digestion

-phage, -phagia

eating, devouring

-phasia

speaking

-phoresis

carrying

-plasia

formation, development, growth

-plastic

forming

-pnea

breath

-poiesis

production, formation

-poietic

pertaining to production

-poietin

substance that produces

-porosis

lessening in density

-rrhage

discharging heavily

-rrhea

a flowing, a flux

-schisis

splitting

-somnia

sleep

-spasm

contraction

-stalsis

contraction

-stasis

stopping, constant, static

-stenosis

narrowing

-cyte

cell

-derma

skin

-emia

relating to blood

-emic

relating to blood

-globin, -globulin

protein

-oxia

oxygen

-plakia

plaque

-plasm, plasia

thing formed, growth

-uria

urine