Chapter 1-4 Suffixes (LOM)
Terms
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- -ac
- pertaining to
- -al
- pertaining to
- -algia
- pain
- -ary
- pertaining to
- -blast
- embryonic; immature
- -cele
- hernia
- -centesis
- surgical puncture to remove fluid
-
-coccus
(-cocci, plural) - berry-shaped bacterium
- -crine
- secrete; separate
- -cyesis
- pregnancy
- -cyte
- cell
- -drome
- to run
- -dynia
- pain
- -eal
- pertaining to
- -ectomy
- removal; excision; resection
- -emia
- blood condition
- -er
- one who
- -fusion
- to pour; to come together
- -gen
- producing; forming
- -genesis
- producing; forming
- -genic
- pertaining to producing, produced by or in
- -globin
- protein
- -graph
- instrument for recording
- -graphy
- process of recording
- -gram
- record
- -ia
- condition
- -iac
- pertaining to
-
-ic
-ical - pertaining to
- -ion
- process
- -ior
- pertaining to
- -ism
- process; condition
- -ist
- one who specializes in
- -itis
- inflammation
- -lapse
- to slide, fall, sag
- -logy
- study of
- -lysis
- breakdown; separation; destruction; loosening
- -malacia
- softening
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -meter
- measure
- -mission
- to send
- -oid
- resembling
- -ole
- little, small
- -oma
- tumor; mass; fluid collection
- -opsy
- view of
- -ose
- full of; pertaining to; sugar
- -osis
- condition, usually abnormal
- -or
- one who
- -ous
- pertaining to
- -partum
- birth; labor
- -pathy
- disease; emotion
- -penia
- deficiency
- -phobia
- fear
- -phoria
- to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)
- -physis
- to grow
- -plasia
- development; formation; growth
- -plasm
- formation
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -pnea
- breathing
- -ptosis
- droop; sag; prolapse; fall
- -rrhea
- flow; discharge
- -sclerosis
- hardening
- -scope
- instrument for visual examination
- -scopy
- visual examination
- -sis
- state of; condition
- -some(s)
- body
- -stasis
- to stop; control; place
- -stomy
- new opening (to form a mouth)
- -therapy
- treatment
- -tic
- pertaining to
- -tomy
- process of cutting
- -trophy
- nourishment; development
- -type
- classification; picture
- -ule
- little; small
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-um
-ium - structure; tissue; thing
- -y
- condition; process