Suffixes Flashcards by Raegan Deschamps

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-crine

A

To secrete

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-blast

A

Embryonic, immature

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-drome

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To run

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-fusion

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Coming together, to pour

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-gea

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Substance, that produces

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-lapse

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To slide, fall, sag

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-lysis

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Breakdown, destruction, separation

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-meter

A

To measure

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-mission

A

To send

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-or

A

One who

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-oxidation

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Oxygen

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-partum

A

Birth, labour

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-phoria

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To bear, carry, feeling

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-plasia

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To grow

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-plasm

A

Development, formation, growth

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-Pnea

A

Breathing

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-ptosis

A

Falling, dropping, prolapse

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-Rrhea

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Flow, discharge

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-stasis

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Stopping, controlling

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-trophy

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Development, nourishment

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-Algia

A

Pain

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-cele

A

Hernia

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-coccus (pl. cocci)

A

Berry-shaped bacterium

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-centesis

A

Surgical puncture to remove fluid

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-cyte

Cell

-ectomy

Excision, removal, resection

-emia

Blood condition

-genesis

Condition of producing, forming

-gram

Record

-graph

Instrument for recording

-graphy

Process of recording

-itis

Inflammation

-logy

Study of

-malacia

Softening

-megaly

Enlargement

-Oma

Tumor, mass, collection of fluid

-opsy

To view

-osis

Condition, usually abnormal

-pathy

Disease condition

-penia

Deficiency

-phobia

Fear

-Plasia

Development, formation, growth

-plasty

Surgical repair

-ptosis

Drooping falling

-sclerosis

Hardening

-scope

Instrument for visual examination

-scopy

Process of visual examination

-stomy

Opening to form mouth

-therapy

Treatment

-tomy

Incision, cutting into

-er

One who

-ia

Condition

-ole, -ule

Small

-y

Condition, process

-us

Structure, substance

-um, -ium

Structure, tissue

-ac, -iac, -al, -ar, -eal

Pertaining to

-genic

Pertaining to producing

What is a suffix?

Letters added to the end of the word or root

-ism

Process, condition

-type

Picture, classification

-ectasis, -ectasia

dilation, widening

-emesis

vomiting

-pepsia

digestion

-phagia

swallowing

-ptysis

spitting

-rrhage, -rrhagia

bursting forth

-rrhaphy

suture

-spasm

involuntary contraction of muscles

--stenosis

narrowing, tightening

-tresia

opening