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Suffixes

  1. pertaining to
    -ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ous
  2. pain
    -algia, -dynia
  3. weakness
    -asthenia
  4. puncture to withdraw fluid
    -centesis
  5. cell
    -cyte
  6. surgical fixation
    -desis
  7. surgical removal
    -ectomy
  8. surgical breaking
    -clasia,-clasis
  9. producing
    -genic
  10. record
    -gram
  11. process of recording
    -graphy
  12. inflammation
    -itis
  13. movement
    -kinesia
  14. softening
    -malacia
  15. process of measuring
    -metry
  16. tumor
    -oma
  17. abnormal condition
    -osis
  18. cutting into
    -otomy
  19. disease
    -pathy
  20. surgical repair
    -plasty
  21. porous
    -porosis
  22. suture
    -rrhaphy
  23. rupture
    -rrhexis
  24. instrument for viewing
    -scope
  25. process of visually examining
    -scopy
  26. instrument to cut
    -tome
  27. development
    -trophy
  28. dilated, expansion
    -ectasis
  29. instrument for recording
    -graph
  30. state of
    -ia
  31. create a new opening
    -ostomy
  32. oxygen
    -oxia
  33. breathing
    -pnea
  34. spitting
    -ptysis
  35. involuntary, strong muscle contraction
    -spasm
  36. chest
    -thorax
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Shak
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Suffixes
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