Medical Word Building - Suffixes

-age

Related to

-cidal, -cide

Pertaining to killing

-form

Shape

-fuge

Driving away

-iatry, -iatrist

Healing by provider/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

Break down

-desis

Stabilization, binding

-ectomy

Removal, excision

-gram

Record

-graph

instrument for recording

-graphy

process of recording

-ion

process

-lepsy

Seizure, convulsion

-lysis

Destruction, seperation

-meter

device for measuring

-metry

process of measuring

-pexy

fixation, to put in place

-plasty

surgical repair, reformation

-scopy

visual examination

-spasm

Involuntary twitch

-stasis

stopping or controlling

-stomy

a new opening

-tomy

Incision

-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

presense of, formation of

-I

Inflammation

-malacia

weakening or softening

-mania

obsessive preoccupation

-megaly

enlargement

-oid

seeming like

-ole

small

-oma

tumor

-osis

condition, usally abnormal

-pathy

disorder, disease

-penia

deficiency, decrease

-phagia

eating, swalling

-phasia

speech

-phobia

fear

-plasis

formation of

-plegia

paralysis

-ptosis

drooping, falling

-rrhage

bursting forth

-rrhea

Flow, discharge

-rrhexis

rupture

-sclerosis

hardening condition

-trophy

development