Medical Terminology Suffixes - Chapter 1
Terms
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- -ac
- Pertaining to
- -al
- Pertaining to
- -algia
- pain
- -cyte
- cell
- -ectomy
- Excision, removal
- -emia
- Blood condition
- -genic
- Pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in
- -globin
- Protein
- -gram
- Record
- -ic, -ical
- Pertaining to
- -ion
- Process
- -ism
- Process; condition
- -ist
- Specialist
- -itis
- Inflammation
- -logy
- Process of study
- -oma
- Tumor, mass, swelling
- -opsy
- Process of viewing
- -osis
- Abnormal condition
- -pathy
- Disease condition
- -scope
- Instrument to visually examine
- -scopy
- Process of visually examining with an endoscope
- -sis
- State of; condition
- -tomy
- Process of cutting, incision
- -um
- Structure
- -y
- Process, condition