1c Word Parts: MEDICAL TERMS suffixes (endings) Flashcards
(51 cards)
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-ac
A
pertaining to
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-al
A
pertaining to
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-algia, -algesia
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sensitivity to pain
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-ar
A
pertaining to
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-ary
A
pertaining to
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-dilation, dilatation
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widening, stretching, expanding
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-ectasis, -ectasia
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dilation, dilatation, widening
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-ectomy
A
removal, excision, resection
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-edema
A
swelling
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-form
A
resembling
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-gram
A
record
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-graph
A
instrument for recording
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-graphy
A
process of recording
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-ia
A
condition of
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-ian
A
medical specialty
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-iatrics
A
medical specialty (Pediatrics)
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-ic
A
pertaining to
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-ical
A
pertaining to (optical)
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-ism
A
condition of
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-ist
A
medical specialty (optometrist)
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-itis
A
inflammation /inflamed (swollen/red) - appendicitis
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-logy
A
study of (biology, psychology)
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-lysis
A
breakdown, separation, destruction, loosening
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-lytic
A
dissolving, reducing, loosening
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-malacia
softening
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-megaly
-enlargement
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-meter
measure
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-mimetic
mimcking (mimic/copy), simulating
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-oid
resembling
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-iatry
medical specialty (psychiatry)
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-ile
pertaining to
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-oma
tumor, mass, fluid collection (carcinoma)
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-ory
pertaining to
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-ous
pertaining to (porous)
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-pathy,
disease or emotion (sympathy)
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-plasty
surgerical repair
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=ptosis
falling, drooping, prolapse
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-rrhage, -rrragia
bursting forth (e.g. hemorrhage blood)
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-sclerosis
hardening
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-scope
instrument for visual examination (telescope, microscope)
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-scopy
visual examination
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-sis
condition of (paralysis)
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-spasm
sudden contraction of muscles
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-stasis
stopping, controlling, placing
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-stenosis
tightening, stricture
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-stomy
new opening, to form a mouth
47
-tome
instrument to cut
48
-tomy
process of cutting
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-tropic
acting on
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-y
condition of
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-rrhea
flow (diarrhea)
