LOM Chapter 6 Suffixes
Terms
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- -ectasis, ectasia
- stretching, dilation, dilatation
- -emesis
- vomiting
- -lysis
- destruction, breakdown, separation
- -pepsia
- digestion
- -phagia
- eating, swallowing
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -ptosis
- prolapse, fall, sag
- -ptysis
- spitting
- -rrhage, -rrhagia
- bursting forth
- -rrhaphy
- suture
- -rrhea
- flow, discharge
- -spasm
- sudden, involuntary contraction of muscles
- -stasis
- to stop; control
- -stenosis
- tightening, stricture, narrowing
- -tresia
- opening