Combining Forms and Related Suffixes

cyt/o

-cyte (cell)

gen/o

-genic, -genesis (beginning, origin, produced by or in producing)

gram/o

-gram, -graph, -graphy (to record, a record, instrument for or process of recording)

kinesi/o

-kinesia, -kinesis (movement, motion)

leps/o

-lepsy (seizure)

lys/o

-lysin, -lysis, -lytic (destruction, dissolving, process of destroying, capable of producing destruction)

malac/o

-malacia (soft, softening, abnormal softening)

megal/o

-megaly (large, enlargement)

metr/o

-meter, -metry (measure, uterine tissue, process of measuring)

path/o

-pathy (disease)

phag/o

-phagia, -phagic, -phagy (eat, ingest, eating, swallowing)

phas/o

-phasia (speech)

pleg/o

-plegia (paralysis)

schis/o, schiz/o, schist/o

-schisis (split, cleft)

scler/o

-sclerosis (hard, hardening)

scop/o

-scope, -scopy (to examine, view, instrument used for viewing)

troph/o

-trophic, -trophy (nutrition)