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1 Suffix Meaning -ac -acusis hearing -ad toward -agon to assemble, gather -agra excessive pain -al -algesia sensitivity to pain -algia pain -amine nitrogen compound -an -apheresis removal, carrying away -ar -arche beginning -arthria articulate (speak distinctly) -ary -ase enzyme -asthenia lack of strength, weakness -at -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 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

2 -desis to bind, tie together -dialysis -dilation widening: stretching; expanding -dote to give -drome to run -dynia pain -e noun marker -eal -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 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 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

3 -iasis -iatrics -iatry -ic -ical -icle -ile -in -inc -ine -ion -ior -ism -ist -itis -ium -ium -kinesia -kinesia -kinesis -kinesis -kinetic -lapse -lemma -lepsy -lepsy -leptic -lexia -listhesis -lith -lithiasis -lithotomy -logist -logy -lucent -lysis -lytic -malacia -mania -mastia -megaly -meter abnormal condition, formation, or presence of treatment treatment small pertainig to a substance a substance process process: condition specialist inflammation structure; tissue structure, tissue movement movement to side, fall, sag sheath, covering seizure seizure to seize, take hold of word; phrase slipping stones condition of stones incision (for removal) of a stone study (process of) to shine breakdown, destruction, seperation pertaninc to destruction softening obsessive, preoccupation, abnormal impulse toward breat enlargement measure

4 -metrist -metry -mimetic -mission -mortem -motor -mycin -mycosis -nine -oid -old -ole -oma -one -opaque -opia -opsia -opsy -or -orexia -ory -ose -osis -osmia -ostomy -ostosis -otia -otomy -ous -oxia -para -paresis -paresis -pareunia -parous -partum -path -pathy -penia -pepsia -pes -pexy process of measuring process of measuring mimic; copy to send death movement mold mold to secrete: separate resembling, derived from resembling; derived from little; small tumor, mass, collection of fluid hormone obscure vision condition vision condition view of one who appetite full of; ; sugar abnormal condition, increase smell surgically creating an opening condition of bone ear condition cutting into oxygen to bear, bring forth (live births) weakness, slight paralysis weakness sexual intercourse to bear, bring forth birth, labor disease; emotion deficiency digestion foot fixation; to put in place

5 -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 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

6 -scopy -sis -sol -some -somnia -spadia -spasm -spermia -sphyxia -stalsis -stasis -stat -static -stenosis -sterone -sthenia -sthenia -stitial -stomy -suppression -taxia -tension -therapy -thorax -thymia -thymic -tic -tim -tocia -tocin -tome -tomy -tresia -tresia -tripsy -trophy -tropia -tropic -tropin -type -ula -ule process of visual examination with endoscope state of; condition solution body sleep to tear, cut sudden, involuntary contraction of muscles sperm pulse contraction stopping, controlling stopping; controlling tightening: stricture, narrowing strength strength to set; standing or positioned opening to form a mouth (stoma) to stop gait pressure treatment chest; pleural cavity mind (condition of) mind structure; tissue; thing labor; birth (condition of) labor; birth (a substance for) instrument to cut incision, cutting into opening opening to crush development, nourishment to turn turning stimulate; act on classification; picture little; small little; small

7 -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

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