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Medical Terminology Suffixes

  1. -ac
    pertaining to
  2. -al
    pertaining to
  3. -algia
    pain
  4. -cyte
    cell
  5. -ectomy
    excision, removal
  6. -emia
    blood condition
  7. -genic
    pertaining to, producing, produced by, or produced in
  8. -globin
    protein
  9. -gram
    record
  10. -ic, -ical
    pertaining to
  11. -ion
    process
  12. -ist
    specialist
  13. -itis
    inflammation
  14. -logy
    process of study
  15. -oma
    tumor, mass, swelling
  16. -opsy
    process of viewing
  17. -osis
    condition, usually abnormal
  18. -pathy
    disease condition
  19. -scope
    instrument to visually examine
  20. -scopy
    process of visually examining with an endoscope
  21. -sis
    state of; condition
  22. -tomy
    process of cutting, incision
  23. -y
    process, condition
  24. -eal
    pertaining to
  25. -iac
    pertaining to
  26. -ior
    pertaining to
  27. -ism
    process, condition
  28. -ose
    pertaining to, full of
  29. -plasm
    formation
  30. -somes
    bodies
  31. -type
    picture, classification
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Medical Terminology Suffixes
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