Suffixes Flashcards
(71 cards)
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-ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -iac, -ic, -ical, -ous, -tic
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pertaining to
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-algia
A
pain
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-cyte
A
cell
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-ectomy
A
excision, removal
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-emia
A
blood condition
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-genic
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pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in
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-globin
A
protein
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-gram
A
record
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-ion
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process
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-ist
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specialist
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-itis
A
inflammation
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-logy
A
process of study
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-oma
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tumor, mass, swelling, collection of fluid
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-opsy
A
process of viewing
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-osis
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condition, usually abnormal
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-pathy
A
disease condition
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-scope
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instrument to visually examine
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-scopy
A
process of visually examining
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-sis
A
state of; condition
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-tomy
A
process of cutting, incision
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-y
A
process, condition
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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, -cocci
A
berry-shaped bacterium (a
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-dynia
pain
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-genesis
condition of producing, forming
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-graph
instrument for recording
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-graphy
process of recording
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-lysis
breakdown, destruction, separation
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-malacia
softening
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-megaly
enlargement
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-penia
deficiency
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-phobia
fear
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-plasia
development, formation, growth
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-plasty
surgical repair
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-ptosis
drooping, falling, prolapse
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-rrhea
flow, discharge
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-sclerosis
hardening
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-stasis
condition of controlling, stopping
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-stomy
process of creating an opening
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-therapy
treatment
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-trophy
development, nourishment
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-er
one who
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-ia
condition
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-ole, -ule
little, small
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-um, -ium
structure, tissue (membrane)
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-us
structure, substance
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-oid
resembling, derived from
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-blast
embryonic, immature
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-crine
to secrete
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-drome
to run
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-fusion
coming together; to pour
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-gen
substance that produces
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-lapse
to slide, fall, sag
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-meter
to measure
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-mission
to send
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-oxia
oxygen
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-partum
birth, labor
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-phoria
to bear, carry; feeling
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-physis
to grow
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-plasm
structure or formation
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-desis
to bind, tie together
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-ema
condition
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-osmia
smell
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-pnea
breathing
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-ptysis
spitting
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-sphyxia
pulse
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-thorax
pleural cavity, chest
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-lytic
breakdown
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-one
hormone
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-pexy
fixation
