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Suffix Meaning -ac pertaining to -acusis hearing -ad toward -agon to assemble, gather -agra excessive pain -al pertaining to -algesia sensitivity to pain -algia pain -amine nitrogen compound -an pertaining to -apheresis removal, carrying away -ar pertaining to -arche beginning -arthria articulate (speak distinctly) -ary pertaining to -ase enzyme -asthenia lack of strength, weakness -at pertaining to -ation process; condition -blast embryonic, immature cell -blastoma immature tumor (cells) -capnia carbon -cele pouching, hernia -centesis surgical puncture to remove fluid -chalasia relaxation -chezia defecation- elimination of wastes -cidal pertaining to killing -cide killing -clasis to break -clast to break -clysis irrigation; washing -coccus (-cocci, p1.) berry-shaped bacterium -coniosis -constriction narrowing -crine to secrete: separate -crit to separate -cusis hearing -cyesis pregnancy -cyte cell -cytosis abnormal condition of cells: increase in cell -derma skin
-desis to bind, tie together -dialysis -dilation widening: stretching; expanding -dote to give -drome to run -dynia pain -e noun marker -eal pertaining to -ectasia dilation: dilatation: widening, expantion -ectom -ectomy removal: excision; resection -ectopia displacement -edema swelling -elasma flat plate -ema condition -emesis vomiting -emia blood condition -emic pertaining to blood condition -er one who -esis action; condition; state of -esthesia nervous sensation -eurysm widening -femoral femur -ferent to carry -ferent to carry -fication process of making -fida split -form resembling; in the shape of -fusion to pour; to come together -gen substance that produces -genesis producing; forming, origin -genic pertaining to producing, produced by or in -globin protein -globulin protein -grade to go -gram record -graph instrument for recording -graphy process of recording -gravida -hexia habit -ia condition of -iac pertaining to
-metrist process of measuring -metry process of measuring -mimetic mimic; copy -mission to send -mortem death -motor movement -mycin mold -mycosis mold -nine to secrete: separate -oid resembling, derived from -old resembling; derived from -ole little; small -oma tumor, mass, collection of fluid -one hormone -opaque obscure -opia vision condition -opsia vision condition -opsy view of -or one who -orexia appetite -ory pertaining to -ose full of; pertaining to; sugar -osis abnormal condition, increase -osmia smell -ostomy surgically creating an opening -ostosis condition of bone -otia ear condition -otomy cutting into -ous pertaining to -oxia oxygen -para to bear, bring forth (live births) -paresis weakness, slight paralysis -paresis weakness -pareunia sexual intercourse -parous to bear, bring forth -partum birth, labor -path -pathy disease; emotion -penia deficiency -pepsia digestion -pes foot -pexy fixation; to put in place
-phagia eat; swallow -phasia speech -phasia speech -pheresis removal -phil attraction for -philia attraction for -phobia fear -phonia voice: sound -phor/o to bear -phoresis carrying; transmission -phoria to bear, carry; feeling (mental state) -phthisis wasting away -phylaxis protection -physis to grow -phyte plant -plakia plaque -plasia development: formation: growth -plasia development, formation, growth -plasm structure or formation -plastic pertaining to formation -plasty surgical repair -plegia paralysis: palsy -plegia paralysis -plegic paralysis: palsy -pnea breathing -poiesis formation -poietin substance that forms -porosis condition of pores (spaces, passage) -prandial meal -praxia action -praxia action -ptosis drooping, sagging, prolaps -ptysis spitting -rrhage bursting forth (of blood) -rrhagia bursting forth (of blood) -rrhaphy suture -rrhea flow: discharge -rrhexis rupture -salpinx fallopian tube; oviduct -schisis to split -sclerosis hardening -scope instrument for visual examination
-um structure; thing, tissue -uria urination; condition of urine -urn structure, tissue -us structure, substance -vascular vessel -verse to turn -version to turn -y condition, process
