Flashcards in Suffixes Deck (79)
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-kinesia
movement/motion
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-kinesis
movement/motion
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-logist
specialist
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-logy
study of
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-lysis
loosening/freeing/breaking apart/destroying
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-lytic*
pertaining to destruction
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-malacia
softening
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-mania
preoccupation
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-megaly
enlargement
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-meter
instrument to measure
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-metry
process of measuring
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-oid
resembling
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-oma
tumor
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-opia
vision
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-ose
sugar
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-osis
condition (abnormal; proliferation or an increased number of)
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-ous
pertaining to/characterized by
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-pathy
disease or abnormality
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-penia
deficiency
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-pexy
surgical fixation
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-phagia
eating/swallowing
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-gic
eating/swallowing
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-gy
eating/swallowing
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-phagia/-gic/-gy
eating/swallowing
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-phasia
speech
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-phobia
abnormal fear
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-plasty
surgical repair
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-plegia
paralysis or a stroke
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-rrhage
excessive flow or discarge
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