LOM7e-Chapter 4-Suffixes
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- -ac
- pertaining to
- -al
- pertaining to
- -algia
- pain
- -ar
- pertaining to
- -ary
- pertaining to
- -cele
- hernia
- -centesis
- surgical procedure to remove fluid
- -clysis
- irrigation or washing
- -coccus
-
spherical/berry-shaped bacterium;
plural = bacteria - -cyte
- cell
- -dynia
- pain
- -eal
- pertaining to
- -ectomy
- excision; removal; resection
- -emia
- blood condition
- -er
- one who
- -genesis
- condition of producing; forming
- -genic
-
pertaining to;
OR
producing; produced by; produced in - -globin
- protein
- -gram
- record (a recording)
- -graph
- instrument for recording
- -graphy
- process of recording
- -ia
- condition
- -iac
- pertaining to
- -ic
- pertaining to
- -ical
- pertaining to
- -ion
- process
- -ior
- pertaining to
- -ism
- process OR condition
- -ist
- specialist
- -itis
- inflammation
- -ium
- structure; tissue; membrane
- -logy
- study of
- -lysis
- breakdown; separation; destruction; loosening
- -malacia
- softening
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -oid
- resembling
- -oma
-
tumor; mass; swelling;
collection of fluid - -opsy
- view of; to view
- -ose
-
sugar; full of;
pertaining to - -osis
-
condition, usually abnormal;
(slight increase in numbers when used with blood cells) - -ous
-
pertaining to
characterized by - -pathy
- disease condition
- -penia
- deficiency
- -phobia
- fear
- -plasia
- development; formation; growth
- -plasm
- formation
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -ptosis
-
drooping; sagging;
prolapse
(falling down/sinking of viscus) - -sclerosis
- hardening
- -scope
- instrument for visual examination
- -scopy
- process of visually examining
- -section
- process of cutting
- -sis
- state of
- -some
- body
- -stasis
- stop, control, place
- -stomy
-
surgical opening;
opening to form a mouth (stoma) - -therapy
- treatment
- -tic
- pertaining to
- -trophy
- nourishment or development
- -type
- picture or classification
- -ule
- little; small; minute
- -um
- structure; tissue; thing
- -y
- process; condition
- -ole
- small
- -blast
- embryonic, immature
- -cyesis
- pregnancy
- -drome
- to run
- -fusion
-
coming together;
to pour - -gen
- producing; forming
- -lapse
- to slide, fall, sag
- -meter
- to measure
- -mission
- to send
- -or
- one who
- -partum
- birth, labor
- -phoria
-
to bear; carry;
OR
'a feeling' (mental state) - -physis
- to grow
- -pnea
- breathing
- -rrhea
- flow, discharge
- -ation
- process; condition
- -plegia
- paralysis
- -pexy
- surgical fixation
- -phagia
- eating/swallowing
-
-rrhage
-rrhagia -
bursting forth of blood
(excessive flow of discharge) - -phasia
- speech
- -opia
- vision
-
-ectasia
-ectasis - dilation
- -ase
- enzyme
- -edema
- swelling
- -emesis
- vomiting
- -iasis
- condition
-
-kinesia
-kinesis - movement
- -lytic
- to reduce or destroy
- -mania
- obsessive preoccupation
- -rrhaphy
- suture
- -rrhexis
- rupture
- -spasm
- twitching
- -tome
- instrument to cut
- -tomy
- process of cutting
- -tripsy
- surgical crushing
- -esthesia
- feeling
- -schisis
- cleft or cleavage
- -chezia
- defecation
- -lithiasis
-
presence; formation;
condition of calculi - -lepsy
- seizure
- -desis
- to bind; to tie together
- -listhesis
- slipping