Chapter 3 - Suffixes

• pain
• joint pain

• hernia
• hernia of the urinary bladder

surgical puncture to remove fluid.

thoracentesis - Procedure in which a tube in inserted to remove fluid form the thoraic cavity

berry-shaped bacterium

Saphylococc: Cluster (staph) of round, or berry-shaped bacetiria

cell.

• erythrocyte: red blood cell .
• erythr/o: red

pain.

Pain in the peural cavity

Exicion, removal, resection.

Removal of the larynx

blood condition

Anemia- literally means no blood. Reduction in the number of red blood cells (erythrocytes) in the amount of hemoglobin circulating in the blood. Remember that Red blood cells are the ones that carry oxygen

condition of producing or forming something

carcinogenesis is a condition of forming cancer

record

x-ray (record) taken of the spinal chord

instrument for recording

instrument for recording the electical activity of the heart

process of recording

Process of recording the electrical activity of the brain

inflammation

study of

breakdown

• Break down of red blood cells with release of hemoglobin.
• Additional info: Bilirubin, which is used by the liver to make bile, is a biproduct of red blood cell breakdown

softening

Softening of the bones

enlargement

exesive growth of long bones due to pituitary disorder which produces abnormally high ammounts of growth hormone

tumor, mass, collection of fluid

to view

disease condition

deficiency

fear

development, formation, growh

surgycal repair

falling, dropping, prolapse

physicians can use ptosis alone to indicate drooping of the upper eyelids, or..... the breasts :P

hardening

insturment for visual examination

stopping, controling

opening to form a mouth (stoma)

opening in the trachea done to people suffocating for whaever reason....

treatment

incision, cutting into

development, noursishment

one who...

condition

specialist

little, small

little, small

structure, tissue

structure, substance

condition, process

pertaining to

pertaining to

pertaining to

pertaining to

producing, produced by, or produced in

pertaining to

resembling

full of, pertaining to

pertaining to

pertaining to