Suffixes

Question 1

What is the suffix that means inflammation?

Answer 1

-itis

BRONCHITIS - inflammation of the bronchioles

Question 2

What is the suffix(s) that means pertaining to

Answer 2

-ac - al -ic -ical

CARDIAC - pertaining to the heart
Gastric - pertaining to the stomach

Question 3

What is the suffix that means pain?

Answer 3

-algia

NEURALGIA - pain of the nerve

Question 4

What is the suffix that means the process of study?

Answer 4

-logy

RADIOLOGY - the study of x-ray

Question 5

What is the suffix that means condition of?

Answer 5

-osis

NEPHROSIS - condition of the kidney

Question 6

What is the suffix that means enlargement?

Answer 6

-megaly

SPLENOMEGALY - enlargement of the spleen

Question 7

What is the suffix that means visual examination?

Answer 7

-scopy
ENDOSCOPY - to look within the body

Question 8

What is the suffix that means surgical repair?

Answer 8

-plasty

Tympanoplasty - surgical repair of the eardrum

Question 9

What is the suffix that means disease condition?

Answer 9

-pathy

ADENOPATHY - swollen gland

Question 10

What is the suffix that means surgical puncture?

Answer 10

-centesis

THORACENTESIS

Question 11

What is the suffix that means tumor, mass or swelling?

Answer 11

-oma

Hepatoma - malignant tumor of the liver

Question 12

What is the suffix that means deficiency?

Answer 12

-penia

Erythropenia - deficiency of red blood cells

Question 13

What is the suffix that means surgical creation of an opening? To form a mouth

Answer 13

-stomy

TRACHEOSTOMY

Question 14

What is the suffix that means process, condition

Answer 14

-y

Gastroenterology - condition of the stomach and intestines

Question 15

What is the suffix that mean pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in?

Answer 15

-genic

CARCINOGENIC - cancer producing

Question 16

What is the suffix that means breakdown, destruction, separation

Answer 16

-lysis
Hemolysis - destruction of red blood cells

Question 17

What is the suffix that means hardening?

Answer 17

-sclerosis

Arteriosclerosis - hardening of arteries

Question 18

What is the suffix that means process?

Answer 18

-ion

Excision -the process of cutting out

Question 19

What is the suffix that means protein

Answer 19

-globin

Hemoglobin

Question 20

What is the suffix that means discharge or flow?

Answer 20

-rrhea

Question 21

What is the suffix that means cell

Answer 21

-cyte

Erythrocyte - red blood cell

Question 22

What is the suffix that means excision or removal

Answer 22

-ectomy

Nephrectomy - removal of the kidney

Question 23

What is the suffix that means condition of blood?

Answer 23

-emia

Anemia

Leukemia - condition of the white blood cells

Question 24

What is the suffix that means record

Answer 24

-gram

Audiogram

Question 25

What is the suffix that means specialist

Answer 25

-ist Radiologist

Question 26

What is the suffix that means the process of viewing

Answer 26

-opsy Biopsy

Question 27

What is the suffix that means instrument to visually examine

Answer 27

-scope Otoscope - instrument to examine the ear

Question 28

What is the suffix that means state of, condition

Answer 28

-sis Prognosis - before full knowledge (the possible outcome of a patient’s condition)

Question 29

What is the suffix that means process of cutting, incision

Answer 29

-tomy Appendectomy

Question 30

What is the suffix that means pain

Answer 30

-algia Arthralgia - pain of the joint -dynia Pleurodynia - pain in chest wall muscle

Question 31

What is the suffix that means hernia

Answer 31

-cele Rectocele - hernia of the rectum

Question 32

What is the suffix that means berry- shaped bacterium

Answer 32

-coccus (singular) - cocci (plural)

Question 33

What is the suffix that means instrument for recording

Answer 33

- graph

Question 34

What is the suffix that means process of recording

Answer 34

-graphy Angiography

Question 35

What is the suffix that means softening

Answer 35

-malacia Osteomalacia

Question 36

What is the suffix that means to view

Answer 36

-opsy

Question 37

What is the suffix that means fear

Answer 37

-phobia

Question 38

What is the suffix that means development, formation, growth

Answer 38

-plasia

Question 39

What is the suffix that means surgical repair

Answer 39

-plasty Angioplasty

Question 40

What is the suffix that means drooping, falling, prolapsed

Answer 40

-ptosis

Question 41

What is the suffix that means controlling, stopping

Answer 41

-stasis Metastasis - a tumor spread from its original site to a secondary site

Question 42

What is the suffix that means treatment

Answer 42

-therapy Hydrotherapy

Question 43

What is the suffix that means development, nurishment

Answer 43

-trophy Hypertrophy - increase in size

Question 44

What is the suffix that means little / small

Answer 44

-ole Arteriole -ule Venule

Question 45

What is the suffix that means structure, tissue

Answer 45

-um / ium Pericardium

Question 46

What is the suffix that means structure, substance

Answer 46

-us Mucus