Medical Word Building-Suffixes (Ki-Ly)

  1. Suffix: -kinesia/-kinesis
    Meaning: movement/motion

    Example: hypokinesis
  2. Suffix: -logist
    Meaning: specialist

    Example: radiologist
  3. Suffix: -logy
    Meaning: study of

    Example: pathology
  4. Suffix: -lysis
    Meaning: loosening/freeing/breaking/destroying

    Example: adhesiolysis
  5. Suffix: -lytic*
    Meaning: pertaining to destruction

    Example: hemolytic
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Medical Word Building-Suffixes (Ki-Ly)
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Medical Suffixes Ki thru Ly
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