Medical Terminology - pathological suffixes

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-iasis

abnormal condition (by something specific)

-osis

abnormal condition, increase ( used mostly with blood cells)

-sclerosis

abnormal hardening

-emia

blood condition

-rrhage, -rrhagia

bursting forth of (loss)

-penia

decrease, deficiency

-ectasis

dilation, expansion

-rrhea

discharge, flow

-pathy

disease

-phagia

eating, swallowing

-megaly

enlargement

-phobia

fear

-plasia, plasm

formation, growth

-cele

hernia, swelling

-itis

inflamation

-spasm

involuntary contraction, twitching

-stenosis

narrowing, stricture

-trophy

nourishment, development

-gen, genesis

origin, forming, producing

-algia / -dynia

pain

-plegia

paralysis

-toxic

poison

-ptosis

prolapse, downward placement, drooping

-rrhexis

rupture

-malacia

softening

-phasia

speech

-lith

stone, calculus

-edima

swelling

-oma

tumor

-emesis

vomiting


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