Common Suffixes Flashcards
(50 cards)
1
Q
Fear of
A
-phobia
2
Q
Blood Condition
A
-emia
3
Q
Drooping, prolapse, sagging, falling down
A
-ptosis
4
Q
Growth or development
A
-trophy
5
Q
Hardening
A
sclerosis
6
Q
Disease, emotion
A
-pathy
7
Q
Process of recording
A
-graphy
8
Q
Paralysis, stroke, palsy
A
-plegia
9
Q
To burst forth, bursting forth
A
-rrhage
10
Q
To form
A
-genesis, -genic
11
Q
Flow or discharge
A
-rrhea
12
Q
Cutting out
A
-ectomy
13
Q
Protrusion, hernia, tumor, swelling
A
-cele
14
Q
New opening
A
-stomy
15
Q
involuntary movement
A
-spasm
16
Q
To use
A
ate,- ize
17
Q
Surgical fixation
A
-pexy, -pexis
18
Q
The study of a specific field
A
-ology
19
Q
Process of measuring
A
-metry
20
Q
To suture or fixate
A
-rrhaphy
21
Q
Enlargement
A
-megaly
22
Q
Process of visual examination
A
-scopy
23
Q
To write, record, instrument for recording
A
-graph
24
Q
Pertaining to
A
-ac, -ic, -al, -ous, -tic, -is, -ar, -ary, -ior, -eal
25
Instrument used to measure
-meter
26
Pain
-algia, -dynia
27
Abnormal cell condition (too many)
-cytosis
28
Formation
-plasia
29
To view
-opsy
30
Specialist
-ologist
31
Shape
-form
32
Skin
-derma
33
Tumor, mass, fluid collection
-oma
34
Breakdown, destruction, separation, loosening, dissolution
-lysis
35
Cutting into
-otomy
36
Instrument used to examine
-scope
37
Weight, mark, record
-gram
38
Condition of
-esis, -ia, -iasis, -ism, -ity, -osis, -sis, -tion, -y
39
Reconstruction or shaping
-plasty
40
Breathing
-pnea
41
To swallow or to eat
-phagia
42
To vomit
-emesis
43
Softening
-malacia
44
Artificial or surgical opening
-ostomy, -stomy, -tomy
45
Inflammation
-itis
46
Binding
-desis
47
cell
cyte
48
Lack of or deficiency
-penia
49
Protein
-globin
50
Surgical puncture
-centesis
