medical term. ch 3 suffixes

-algia

pain

-asthenia

weakness

-desis

binding, fusion

-dynia

pain

-esthia

sensation

-kinesia, -kinesis

movement

-phobia

fear

-phonia

sound

-phoria

feeling, carrying

-cele

hernia

-cytosis

condition of cells

-estasia, -ectasis

expansion, dilation

-edema

swelling

-emesis

vomiting

-iasis

pathological condition or state

-ism

condition, disease

-itis

inflammation

-lepsy

seizures

-leptic

pertaining to seizures

-lithiasis

presence of stones

-mania

obsession, madness

-megaly

enlargement

-oma

tumor, neoplasm

-opia, -opsia

vision

-osis

condition, state, process

-paresis

slight paralysis, numb

-pathy

abnormal condition, disease

-penia

deficiency, small, fewer

-philia

attraction, affinity for

-phrenia

of the mind

-phthisis

wasting away

-physis

growing

-plegia

paralysis

-plegic

pertaining to paralysis

-ptosis

falling down, drooping

-rrhea

flow or discharge

-rrhagia

excessive bleeding

-rrhexis

rupture

-trophic

pertaining to nutrition

-trophy

nutrition

-blast

immature, forming

-cidal, -cide

destroying, killing

-crine

secreting

-matacia

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 formation

-poietin

substance that produces

-rrhage

discharging heavily

-rrhea

a flowing, a flux

-schisis

split

-somnia

sleep

\-spasm

contraction

-stalisis

contraction

-stasis

stopping, constant, static

\-stenosis

narrowing

-cyte

cell

-derma

skin

-emia

blood

-emic

relating to blood

\-globin or gloubin

protein

-oxi

oxygen

-plakia

plague

-plasm,-plasia

thing formed, grower

\-uria

urine

\-centesis

surgical punture to remove fluid

-ectomoy

surgical removal

-lysis

destruction of

-lytic

pertaining to destruction

-pexy

fixation, usually done surgically

-plasty

surgical repair

-rrhaphy

surgical suturing

-static, -stasis

maintaining a state

-stomy

opening

-tome

cutting instrument, segment

-tomy

cutting operation, incision

-tripsy

crushing

-crit

separate

-gen

producer

-genesis

origin

-genic

produced by

-gram

a recording

-graph

recording instrument

-graphy

process of recording

-meter

measuring device

-metry

measurement

-opsy

view of

-pheresis

removal

-phil

attraction, affinity for

-scope

instrument for visual exams

-scopy

use of instrument for viewing

-ad

toward