Questions and Answers
What are suffixes?
Word components that appear at the end of the word to change the meaning.
What does the suffix '-age' indicate?
Which of the following suffixes indicates a surgical procedure? (Select all that apply)
The suffix '-oma' refers to a ______.
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What does the suffix '-itis' signify?
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What does the suffix '-pathy' refer to?
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What does the suffix '-plasty' indicate?
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Match the following suffixes with their meanings:
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The suffix '-phobia' indicates a fear of ______.
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What does the suffix '-plegia' indicate?
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Study Notes
Suffixes in Medical Terminology
- Suffixes are components added to the end of words to alter their meanings.
General Suffixes
- -age: Indicates relation or pertaining to.
- -icidal, -cide: Relates to killing.
- -form: Denotes shape or form.
- -iatry, -iatrist: Refers to healing practices or the healer.
- -ical: Pertains to a specific subject.
- -ion: Signifies a process or action.
- -ology, -ologist: Refers to the study of a subject and the one who studies it.
- -ole: Indicates something small or diminutive.
- -opia: Relates to vision.
- -phylaxis: Means protection or prevention.
- -pnea: Refers to breathing.
- -therapy: Indicates treatment.
- -uria: Pertains to urine or urinary conditions.
Surgical and Procedural Suffixes
- -centesis: Surgical puncture for fluid extraction.
- -cise: Pertains to cutting or removal.
- -clasis: Means to break down.
- -desis: Indicates stabilization or binding.
- -ectomy: Refers to removal or excision of tissue or organ.
- -gram: A record or written result.
- -graph: An instrument used to record data.
- -graphy: The process of recording.
- -ion: Indicates a process.
- -lepsy: Relates to seizure or convulsion activities.
- -lysis: Means destruction or separation of parts.
Additional Surgical and Procedural Suffixes
- -meter: A device used for measuring.
- -metry: The process of measurement.
- -pexy: Pertains to fixation or securing in place.
- -plasty: Surgical repair or reconstruction.
- -scopy: Visual examination using an instrument.
- -spasm: Refers to involuntary contraction or twitching.
- -stasis: Means stopping or controlling a process.
- -stomy: A new opening created surgically.
- -tomy: Indicates incision or cutting into.
- -tripsy: Means crushing or pulverizing.
Disorders and Conditions Suffixes
- -algia: Refers to pain.
- -asthenia: Indicates weakness or lack of strength.
- -cele: Pertains to swelling or herniation.
- -dynia: Another term for pain.
- -ectasis: Means dilation or expansion.
- -emesis: Refers to vomiting.
- -emia: Describes a blood condition.
- -gen: Indicates something that produces or generates.
- -ia, -ism: Denotes a condition or state.
- -iasis: Indicates presence or formation of a condition.
- -itis: Refers to inflammation.
- -malacia: Means softening or weakening of tissue.
- -mania: Refers to obsessive preoccupation.
- -megaly: Indicates enlargement of an organ or tissue.
- -oid: Suggests similarity or resemblance.
- -ole: Indicates smallness.
Additional Disorders and Conditions Suffixes
- -oma: Refers to a tumor.
- -osis: Denotes a condition, often abnormal.
- -pathy: Refers to disorder or disease.
- -penia: Indicates deficiency or decrease.
- -phagia: Relates to eating or swallowing behavior.
- -phasia: Pertains to speech disorders.
- -phobia: Refers to irrational fear.
- -plasia: Indicates formation or growth.
- -plegia: Denotes paralysis or loss of motor function.
- -ptosis: Means drooping or falling.
- -rrage: Indicates bursting forth, often related to bleeding.
- -rrhage: Refers to excessive flow or discharge.
- -rrhea: Indicates flow or discharge.
- -rrhexis: Means rupture of a part or organ.
- -sclerosis: Refers to hardening of tissues.
- -trophy: Indicates development or growth of tissues.
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