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Suffix Meaning Suffix Meaning -algia pain -rrhea flow, discharge -cele hernia -sclerosis hardening -centesis surgical puncture to remove fluid -scope instrument for v...

Suffix Meaning Suffix Meaning -algia pain -rrhea flow, discharge -cele hernia -sclerosis hardening -centesis surgical puncture to remove fluid -scope instrument for visual examination -coccus berry-shaped bacterium -stasis controlling, stopping -cocci plural bacteria -stomy opening to form a mouth (stoma) -cyte cell -therapy treatment -dynia pain -tomy incision, cutting into -ectomy excision, removal, resection -trophy development, nourishment -emia blood condition -er one who -genesis condition of producing, forming -ia condition -gram record -ist specialist -graph instrument for recording -ole little, small -graphy process of recording -ule little, small -itis inflammation -um, -ium structure, tissue -logy study of -us structure, substance -lysis breakdown, destruction, separation -y condition, process -malacia softening -ac, -iac pertaining to -megaly enlargement -al pertaining to -oma tumor, mass, collection of fluid -ar pertaining to -opsy to view -ary pertaining to -osis condition, usually abnormal -eal pertaining to pertaining to, producing, produced -pathy disease condition -genic by or in -penia deficiency -ic, -ical pertaining to -phobia fear -oid resembling, derived from -plasia development, formation, growth -ose pertaining to, full of -plasty surgical repair -ous pertaining to -ptosis drooping, falling, prolapse -tic pertaining to