Suffix Flashcards
1
Q
-PARTUM
A
Birth, labor
2
Q
-OXIA
A
Oxygen
3
Q
-OR
A
One who
4
Q
-MISSION
A
Send
5
Q
-LYSIS
A
Breakdown, destruction, separation
6
Q
-METER
A
Measure
7
Q
-LAPSE
A
Slide, fall, sag
8
Q
-GEN
A
Substance that produces
10
Q
-FUSION
A
Coming together; to pour
11
Q
-DROME
A
Run
12
Q
-TROPHY
A
Development, nourishment
13
Q
-CRINE
A
Secrete
13
Q
-STASIS
A
Controlling, stopping
14
Q
-RRHEA
A
Flow, discharge
15
Q
-PTOSIS
A
Drooping, falling, prolapse
16
Q
-PLASIA
A
Development, formation, growth
17
Q
-MALACIA
A
Softening
19
Q
-IA
A
Condition
20
Q
-TYPE
A
21
Q
-UM, -IUM
A
Structure, tissue
22
Q
-OLE, -ULE
A
Little, small
23
Q
-OID
A
Resembling, derived from
24
Q
-THERAPY
A
Treatment
25
Q
-STOMY
A
Opening to form a mouth (stoma)
26
-SCLEROSIS
Hardening
27
-PLASTY
Surgical repair
29
-PHOBIA
Fear
30
-PENIA
Deficiency
31
-MEGALY
Enlargement
32
-LYSIS
Breakdown, destruction, separation
33
-GRAPHY
Process of recording
34
-GRAPH
Instrument for recording
35
-GENESIS
Condition of producing, forming
36
-EMIA
Blood condition
37
-DYNIA
Pain
38
-COCCUS (singular)
-COCCI ( plural)
Berry shaped bacterium
39
-CENTESIS
Puncture to remove fluid
40
-CELE
Hernia
41
-PLASM
Formation
42
-SOMES
Bodies
43
-ISM
Process, condition
44
-OSE
Pertaining to, full of
45
-IOR
Pertaining to
46
-IAC
Pertaining to
47
-EAL
Pertaining to
48
-EAL
A substance
49
-TYPE
Classification or picture
50
-AL
Pertaining to
51
-UM
A structure
52
-SIS
State of; condition
53
-ALGIA
Pain
54
-ION
Process
55
-GENIC
Pertaining to; producing, produced by, produced in
56
-ECTOMY
Excision, removal
57
-IC, -ICAL
Pertaining to
58
-IST
Specialist
59
-CYTE
Cell
60
-LOGY
Process of study
61
-OMA
Tumor, mass, swelling
62
-ER
63
-GRAM
Record
64
-OPSY
Process of viewing
65
-SCOPY
Process of visually examining
66
-ITIS
Inflammation
67
-GLOBIN
Protein
68
-AC
Pertaining to
69
-Y
Process, condition
70
-TOMY
Process of cutting, incision
71
- OSIS
Condition, usually abnormal
Slight increase in numbers when used by blood cells
72
-PATHY
Disease, condition
73
-SCOPE
Instrument to visually examine
74
-ASE
Enzyme
75
-CHEZIA
Defecation, elimination of wastes
76
-IASIS
Abnormal condition
77
-PRANDIAL
Meal
78
-OREXIA
Appetite
79
-EMESIS
Vomiting
80
-PEPSIS
-PEPSIA
Digestion
81
-PHAGIA
Eating, swallowing
82
-PTYSIS
Spitting
83
-RRHAGE
-RRHAGIA
Bursting forth (of blood)
84
-RRHAPHY
Suture
85
-SPASM
Involuntary contraction of muscles
86
-STENOSIS
Narrowing, tightening
87
-TRESIA
Opening
88
-ECTASIS
Dilation, widening
89
-POIETIN
Substance that forms
90
-TRIPSY
Crushing
91
-URIA
Urinarion, urine condition
92
-arche
Beginning
93
-cyesis
Pregnancy
94
-gravida
Pregnant
95
-parous
Bearing, bringing forth
96
-salpinx
Fallopian tube
97
-tocia
Labor, birth
98
-version
Act of turning
99
100
-ONE
Hormone
101
-PEXY
Fixation, put in place
102
-algesia
Sensitivity to pain
103
- esthesia
Feeling, nervous sensation
104
-kinesia -kinesis -kinetic
Movement
105
-lepsy
Seizure
106
-paresis
Weakness
107
-phasia
Speech
108
-plegia
Paralysis (loss or impairment of the ability to move parts of the body)
109
-praxia
Action
110
-sthenia
Strength
111
-EMA
Condition
112
-OSMIA
Smell
113
-PNEA
Breathing
114
-SPHYXIA
Pulse
115
THORAX
Pleural cavity; chest
116
-APHERESIS
Removal, carrying away
117
-CYTOSIS
Abnormal condition of cells
118
-GLOBULIN
Protein
119
-LYTIC
Pertaining to destruction
120
-PHAGE
Eat, swallow
121
-PHILIA
Attraction for
122
-PHORESIS
Carrying, transmission
123
-POIESIS
Formation
124
-STITIAL
Pertaining to standing, positioned
125
-CLAST
To break
126
LISTHESIS
Slipping
127
-PHYSIS
To grow
128
-POROSIS
Pore; passage
129
-TOME
Instrument to cut
130
-BLAST
Immature or embryonic cell
131
-US
Substance, structure
132
-DESIS
To bind, tie together
133
-ASTHENIA
Lack of strength
134
-OPIA
Vision
135
-OPSIA
Vision
136
-TROPIA
To turn
137
-CUSIS
-ACUSIS
Impairment
138
-AGON
Assemble; gather together
139
-IN, -INE
Substance
140
-TROPIN
Stimulating the function of (to turn on or act on)
