MT Suffixes Flashcards by Sheryl Mathieson

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-AL

A

Pertaining to

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-ALGIA

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Pain

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-AR

A

Pertaining to

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-ARY

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Pertaining to

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-BLAST

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Immature cell, embryonic

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-CELE

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Hernia

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-CENTESIS

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Surgical puncture to remove fluid

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-COCCUS (plural -cocci)

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Berry-shaped bacterium (plural bacteria)

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-CYESIS

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Pregnancy

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-CYTE

A

Cell

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-DROME

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To run

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-DYNIA

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Pain

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-EAL

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Pertaining to

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-ECTOMY

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Excision, removal resection

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-EMIA

A

Blood condition

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-ER

A

One who

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-FUSION

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Coming together, to pour

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-GEN

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Substances that produce

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-GENESIS

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Producing, forming

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-GENIC

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Pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in

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-GRAM

A

Record

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-GRAPH

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Instrument for recording

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-GRAPHY

A

Process of recording

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-IA

A

Condition

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-IC, -ICAL

Pertaining to

-ION

Process

-ISM

Process, condition

-IST

Specialist

-ITIS

Inflammation

-LAPSE

To slide, fall, sag

-LOGY

Study of

-LYSIS

Breakdown, destruction, separation, loosening

-MALACIA

Softening

-MEGALY

Enlargement

-METER

To measure

-AC, -IAC

Pertaining to

-MISSION

To send

-OID

Resembling, derived from

-OLE

Little, small

-OMA

Tumor, mass, fluid collection

-OPSY

View of

-OR

One who

-OSE

Pertaining to, full of, sugar

-OSIS

Condition, usually abnormal

-OUS

Pertaining to

-PARTUM

Birth, labor

-PATHY

Disease, emotion

-PENIA

Deficiency

-PHOBIA

Fear

-PHORIA

To bear, carry, feeling

-PHYSIS

To grow

-PLASIA

Development, growth, formation

-PLASM

Structure, formation

-PLASTY

Surgical repair

-PNEA

Breathing

-PTOSIS

Droop, sag, prolapse, protrude

-RRHEA

Flow, discharge

-SCLEROSIS

Hardening

-SCOPE

Instrument for visual examination

-SCOPY

Process of visual examination

-SIS

State of, condition

-SOME

Body

-STASIS

To stop, control, place

-STOMY

New opening to form a mouth (stoma)

-THERAPY

Treatment

-TIC

Pertaining to

-TOMY

Process of cutting

-TROPHY

Nourishment, development (condition of)

-TYPE

Picture, classification

-ULE

Little, small

-UM, -IUM

Structure, tissue, thing

-Y

Condition, process