Learning Activity 2-4 Selecting Diagnostic, Pathological, and Related Suffixes
Neuralgia
pain along the course of a nerve
hemiplegia
paralysis affecting one side of the body
Leukemia
white blood condition
bronchiectasis
dilation of a bronchus
lithiasis
abnormal condition of a stone or calculus
dermatosis
abnormal condition of the skin
erythropenia
deficiency in red (blood) cells
dysphagia
difficult or painful swallowing or eating
otorrhea
discharge or flow from the ear
myopathy
disease of the muscle
nephromegaly
enlargement of the kidney
cystocele
herniation of the bladder
pelvimetry
measuring the pelvis
carcinogenesis
producing or forming cancer
hysterorrhexis
rupture of the uterus
osteomalacia
softening of the bones
blepharospasm
spasm or twitching of the eyelid
Hepatoma
tumor of the liver
aphasia
without (or absence of) speech
hemorrhage
bursting forth of blood
