Suffixes K-Z

-kine

Movement

-lalia

Condition of speech

-lepsy

Seizure

-lith

Stone

-logy

Study of

-ly

Going toward

-lysis

Process to break down, destroy

-lyte

Dissolved substance

-megaly

Enlargement

-ment

Action, state

-meter

Instrument used to measure

-metry

Process of measuring

-mileusis

Process of carving

-nate

Thing that is born

-nine

Pertaining to a single chemical structure

-oid

Resembling

-ol

Chemical substance

-ole

Small thing

-oma

Mass, tumor

-omatosis

Condition of masses, condition of tumors

-on

Structure, substance

-one

Chemical substance

-opsy

Process of viewing

-or

Person who does, person who produces, thing that does, thing that produces

-ory

Having the function of

-ose

Full of, thing full of

-osing

Condition of making

-osis

Condition, process

-ous

Pertaining to

-path

Person involved with disease

-pathy

Disease

-pause

Cessation

-penia

Condition of deficiency

-pexy

Process fo surgically fixing in place

-phage

Thing that eats, thing that swallows

-pharynx

Pharynx, throat

-phil

Attraction to, fondness

-phile

Person who is attracted to, person who is fond of

-phylaxis

Condition of guarding or protecting

-phyma

Growth, tumor

-physis

State of growing

-phyte

Growth

-plant

Procedure to graft, procedure to transfer

-plasm

Formed substance, growth

-plasty

Process of reshaping by surgery

-plex

Parts

-pnea

Breathing

-poiesis

Process of formation

-poietin

Substance that forms

-probe

Rod-like instrument

-ptosis

State of drooping, state of falling

-ptysis

Condition of coughing up

-rrhage

Excessive discharge, excessive flow

-rrhaphy

Process of suturing

-rrhea

Flow, discharge

-rubin

Red substance

-salpinx

Uterine tube

-scope

Instrument for examining

-scopy

Process of using an instrument to examine

-sin

Substance

-sis

Condition, process

-some

Body

-spasm

Sudden, involuntary muscle contraction

-sphere

Ball, sphere

-stasis

Standing still, staying in one place

-steroid

Steroid

-sterol

Lipid-containing compound

-stomy

Surgically-created opening

-systole

Contraction

-therapy

Treatment

-thorax

Chest, thorax

-tic

Pertaining to

-tion

Being, having, process

-tome

Area with distinct edges, instrument used to cut

-tomy

Process of cutting or making an incision

-tope

Place, position

-tor

Person who does, person who produces, thing that does, thing that produces

-tous

Pertaining to

-tresia

Hole, opening

-tripsy

Process of crushing

-triptor

Thing that crushes

-tron

Instrument

-trophy

Process of development

-ty

Quality, state

-type

Model of

-ual

Pertaining to

-ula

Small thing

-ule

Small thing

-um

Period of time, structure

-ure

Result of, system

-us

Condition, thing

-verse

Travel, turn

-zoon

Animal, living thing