Primary Word Elements; Suffixes Flashcards

algia, dynia

pain

cele

hernia, tumor, swelling

emesis

vomiting

itis

inflammation

lysis

destruction, separation

megaly

enlargement, large

oid

resemble

plegia

paralysis, stroke

ptosis

drooping

oma

tumor

osis

condition

pathy

disease

penia

deficiency

phobia

fear

ptysis

spitting

rrhage

bursting forth

rrhagia

bursting forth

rrhea

flow, discharge

rrhexis

rupture

centesis

surgical puncture

desis

binding

extomy

surgical excision

gram

a weight, or picture

graph

to write, record

meter, metry

measure

opsy

to view

plasty

surgical repair

plexy

surgical fixation

rrhaphy

suture

scope

instrument

scopy

to view

stasis

control, stopping

stomy

surgically created opening

therapy

treatment

tome

instrument to cut

tomy

incision

blast

immature cell, germ cell

cyte

cell

ist

one who specializes, agent

logy

study of

lysis

breaking, destroying

phagia

to eat

phasia

to speak

philia

attraction

phraxis

to obstruct development

physis

growth

plasia

formation, produce

pnea

breathing

poiesis

formation

trophy

nourishment, development

uria

urine