Ch.3 Suffixes
Terms
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- -lysis
- breakdown, destruction, separation
- -trophy
- development, nourishment
- -plasia
- development, formation, growth
- -ptosis
- drooping, sagging, prolapse
- -malacia
- softening
- -genesis
- condition of producing, forming
- -dynia
- pain
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -cele
- hernia
- -coccus
- berry-shaped bacterium
- plas/o
- formation, development
- acr/o
- extremities, top, extreme point
- pulmon/o
- lungs
- necr/o
- death
- neutr/o
- neutrophil (a white blood cell), (neutral)
- peritone/o
- peritoneum
- phag/o
- to eat, swallow
- phleb/o
- vein
- -megaly
- enlargement
- mast/o
- breast
- myel/o
- spinal cord, bone marrow
- lapar/o
- abdomen, abdominal wall
- isch/o
- to hold back
- my/o
- muscle
- -therapy
- treatment
- -graphy
- the process of recording or tracing
- -stomy
- new opening to the outside of the body to form a mouth.
- -stasis
- stopping, controlling, standing still
- leukemia
- a blood condition of increased malignant white blood cells.
- prolapse
- fall forward
- cytosis
- slight increase of cells
- -sclerosis
- hardening
- -phobia
- fear
- -penia
- deficiency
- -ous
- pertaining to
-
-ar
-ary - pertaining to
- -tic
- pertaining to
-
-um
-ium - structure, tissue, thing
- -graph
- instrument for recording
- -oid
- resembling
- arteri/o
- artery
- bronch/o
- bronchial tubes
- chem/o
- drug, chemical
- -plasm
- formation
- -iac
- pertaining to
- -ia
- condition
- -er
- one who
-
-ole
-ule - little, small
- chron/o
- time
- lymph/o
- lymph
- hydr/o
- water, fluid
- muc/o
- mucus
- mamm/o
- breast
- morph/o
- shape, form
- col/o
- colon (large intestine)
- pleur/o
-
pleura
(membrane surrounding the lungs and adjacent to chest wall muscles) - ot/o
- ear
- pneaumon/o
- lungs
- splen/o
- spleen
- rect/o
- rectum
- ven/o
- vein
- tonsill/o
- tonsils
- -centesis
- surgical puncture to remove fluid
- blephar/o
- eyelid
- axill/o
- armpit
- amni/o
-
amnion
(the sac surrounding the embryo in the uterus) - agor/a
- marketplace
- acu/o
- sharp, severe, sudden
- angi/o
- vessel
- strept/o
- twisted chains
- staphyl/o
- clusters