Index of Medical Suffixes: Adjective Forms, Pathological Conditions, and Surgical Processes

Adjective Suffix Forms and Meanings

• -ac: Pertaining to.

• -al: Pertaining to.

• -ar: Pertaining to.

• -ary: Pertaining to.

• -ic: Pertaining to.

• -ine: Pertaining to.

• -ive: Pertaining to.

Suffixes for Processes, Diseases, and Conditions

• -ation: A process, being, or having.

• -Ion: Action condition.

• -itis: Inflamation.

• -megary: En large ment (enlargement).

• -lysis: Process of breaking down or destroying.

• -ia: Condition; Stare (State), thing.

• -ism: Disease resulting from a specific cause.

• -oma: Tumor, mass.

• -osis: Condition; abnormal.

• -pathy: Disease; suffering.

Surgical, Diagnostic, and Specialty Suffixes

• -ectomy: Surgical excision.

• -gram: Record of or picture.

• -graphy: Process of recording.

• -metry: Process of measuring.

• -scope: Instrument used to examine.

• -stomy: Surgically created opening.

• -therapy: Treatment.

• -tomy: Process of cutting or making an incision.

• -iatry: Medical treatment.

• -ist: One who specializes in.

• -logy: Study of.