Suffix Flashcards
(55 cards)
1
Q
-gram
A
record, writing
1
Q
-scopy
A
visual examination
1
Q
-phasia
A
speech
1
Q
-ptosis
A
prolapse, downward displacement
2
Q
-stomy
A
forming an opening (mouth)
2
Q
-tome
A
instrument to cut
2
Q
-megaly
A
enlargement
3
Q
-tomy
A
incision
4
Q
-penia
A
decrease, deficiency
5
Q
-rrhexis
A
rupture
6
Q
-lysis
A
separation; destruction; loosening
7
Q
-pathy
A
disease
9
Q
-graph
A
instrument for recording
10
Q
-lith
A
stone, calculus
11
Q
-iatry
A
medicine, treatment
12
Q
-scope
A
instrument for examing
12
Q
-oma
A
tumor
13
Q
-meter
A
instrument for measuring
14
Q
-ician, ist
A
specialist
15
Q
-metry
A
act of measuring
16
Q
-rrhage, rrhagia
A
bursting forth (of)
16
Q
-ac, al, ar, ary, eal, ic, ical, ile, ior, ous, tic
A
pertaining to
17
Q
-desis
A
binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)
18
Q
-rrhaphy
A
suture
19
-plegia
paralysis
20
-plasia, plasm
formation, growth
22
-gen, -genesis
forming; producing, origin
22
-malacia
softening
23
-clasis
to break; surgical fracture
25
-spasm
involuntary contraction, twitching
26
-phobia
fear
27
-y
condition; process
28
-tripsy
crushing
30
-phagia
eating, swallowing
30
-esis, ia, ism
condition
32
-cele
hernia, swelling
33
-plasty
surgical repair
34
-itis
inflammation
35
-rrhea
discharge, flow
36
-trophy
nourishment, development
38
-icle, ole, ule
small; minute
40
-toxic
poison
41
-stenosis
narrowing, stricture
42
-ectomy
excision, removal
43
-sclerosis
abnormal condition of hardening
44
-graphy
process of recording
46
-algia, -dynia
pain
47
-iasis
abnormal condition (something specified)
48
-edema
swelling
49
-osis
abnormal condition (blood cells)
51
-pexy
fixation (of a organ)
51
-ectasis
dilation, expansion
53
-emesis
vomiting
54
-centesis
surgical puncture
55
-emia
blood condition
