suffixes

-cele hernia

-coccus (singular)

-cocci (plural)

berry-shaped bacterium (plural: bacteria)

cyte cell

dynia pain

ectomy excision, removal, resection

emia blood condition

enesis condition of producing, forming

-gram record

-graph instrument for recording

-graphy process of recording

ele-itis inflammation

Myel/o means spinal cord in this term.

Also called phlebitis.

-logy study of

-lysis breakdown, destruction, separation

-malacia softening

-megaly enlargement

-oma tumor, mass, collection of fluid

Myel/o means bone marrow in this term.

-opsy to view

-osis condition, usually abnormal

-pathy disease condition

-penia deficiency

-phobia fear

-plasia development, formation, growth

-plasty surgical repair

-ptosis drooping, falling, prolapse

-rrhea flow, discharge

-sclerosis hardening

-scope instrument for visual examination

scopy process of visual examination (with an endoscope)

-stasis controlling, stopping

Meta- means beyond.

-stomy opening to form a mouth (stoma)

-tomy incision, cutting into

-trophy development, nourishment

-er one who

A technologist who assists in the making of diagnostic x-ray pictures.

-ia condition

-ist specialist

-oid resembling, derived from

-ole little, small

-ule little, small

-um, -ium structure, tissue

-us structure, substance

Eso- means within or inward.

-y condition, process

-ac, -iac pertaining to

-al pertaining to

-ar pertaining to tonsillar

-ary pertaining to

-eal pertaining to

-genic pertaining to producing, produced by or in

-ic, -ical pertaining to

-ose pertaining to, full of adipose

-ous pertaining to

-tic pertaining to