Medical Terms- ch 2

• 1. signify medical conditions
• 2. signify diagnostic terms, test information, or surgical procedures.
• 3. suffixes associated with a medical specialty or specialist.
• 4. suffixes that convert to a noun to an adjective.

Suffixes are used throughout medical terminolgy to convert roots or combining forms to nouns or nouns to other nouns.

• pain
• Ex. arthralgia

• protrusion, hernia
• Ex. rectocele

• pain
• ex. arthrodynia

• expansion or dilation
• Ex. angiectasis

• blood
• Ex. anemia

• presence of, formation of
• Ex. cholelithiasis

• a condition, a process, or state of
• Ex. dwarfism

• inflammation
• Ex. appendicitis

• softening
• Ex. osteomalacia

• enlargement
• Ex. gastromegaly

• tumor
• Ex. gastroma

• abnormal condition
• Ex. osteoporosis

• reduction of size and quantity
• Ex. leukopenia

• paralysis
• Ex. hemiplegia

• breathing
• Ex. tachypenia

• porous condition
• Ex. osteoporosis

• downward displacement
• Ex. nephroptosis

• flowing forth
• Ex. hemmorrhage

• discharge
• Ex. diarrhea

• rupture
• Ex. hysterorrhexis

• muscular contraction
• Ex. angiospasm

Many of these suffixes are attached to a root to indicate a procedure or test performed on a body part.

• surgical puncture
• ex. thoracentesis

• surgical binding
• ex. arthrodesis

• surgical removal
• ex. appendectomy

• origin, producing
• ex. osteogenic

• written or pictoral record
• ex. electrocardiogram

• device fro graphic or pictoral recording.
• ex. electrocardiograph.

• act of graphic or pictoral recording.
• ex. electrocardiography

• device for measuring
• ex. audiometer

• act of measuring
• ex. audiometry

• surgical fixation
• ex. hysteropexy

• sugical repair
• ex. rhinoplasty

• suture
• ex. herniorrhaphy

• device for viewing
• ex. arthroscope

• act of viewing
• ex. arthroscopy

• incision
• ex. colotomy

• crushing
• ex. lithotripsy

Suffixes associated with medical specalty or specialists

• specialist
• ex. pediatrician

• medical specialty
• ex. pediatrics

• medical specialty
• ex. psychiatry

• medical specialty
• ex. orthopedics

• specialist in a field of study
• ex. orthopedist

• study of
• ex. gynecology

not governed by a clear set of rules.

• converts a root or noun to an adjective.
• ex. geriatric, orthopedic, ocular

• cell
• ex. leukocyte

• vomiting
• ex. hematemesis

• a suffix used to convert a noun indicating condition.
• ex. cholelithiasis

• a stone, calculus, calcification
• ex. pneumolith

• disintegration or destruction of
• ex. hemolysis

• enlarged
• ex. gastromegaly

• visual examination
• ex. biopsy

• disease
• ex. cardiopathy

• fear, often suffix
• ex. claustrophobia

• producing of formation
• ex. erythropoiesis

• drooping
• ex. nephroptosis

• hardness
• ex. arteriosclerosis

• level, unchanging
• ex. hemostasis

narrow, blocked

• permanent opening
• ex. colostomy

• instrument for cutting
• ex. osteotome

prefixes of time and speed

• before
• ex. antepartum, premature

• abnormally slow rate of speed
• ex. bradycardia

• new
• ex. neoplasm

• after
• ex. postsynaptic

• rapid, abnormally high rate of speed
• ex. tachycardia

direction prefix

• away from, outside of, beyond
• ex. abnormal

• toward, near to
• ex. addiction

• with
• ex. congenital, sympathetic, syharithrosis

• against
• ex. contraindicate

• across, through
• ex. diarrhea