Medical Terminology Suffixes- Surgical (-centesis to -tripsy) & Diagnostic, Pathological, and Related (-gram to -trophy) & Adjective, Noun, and Diminutive (-ac to -ule)
-ectasis
Dilation, expansion
-rrhea
Discharge, flow
-pathy
Disease
-phagia
Eating, swallowing
-megaly
Enlargement
-ectomy
Excision, removal
-phobia
Fear
-ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ical, -ile, -ior, -ous, -tic
Pertaining to
-toxic
Poison
-graphy
Process of recording
-ptosis
Prolapse, downward displacement
-gram
Record, writing
-rrhexis
Rupture
-lysis
Separation; destruction; loosening
-icle, -ole, -ule
Small, minute
-malacia
Softening
-ician, -ist
Specialist
-phasia
Speech
-lith
Stone, calculus
-iasis
Abnormal condition (produced by something specific)
-sclerosis
Abnormal condition of hardening
-osis
Abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood cells)
-metry
Act of measuring
-desis
Binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)
-emia
Blood condition
-rrhage, -rrhagia
Bursting forth (of)
-esis, -ia, -ism
Condition
-y
Condition; process
-tripsy
Crushing
-penia
Decrease, deficiency
-pexy
Fixation (of an organ)
-plasia, -plasm
Formation, growth
-stomy
Forming an opening (mouth)
-gen, -genesis
Forming, producing, origin
-cele
Hernia, swelling
-tomy
Incision
-itis
Inflammation
-scope
Instrument for examining
-meter
Instrument for measuring
-graph
Instrument for recording
-tome
Instrument to cut
-spasm
Involuntary contraction, twitching
-iatry
Medicine, treatment
-stenosis
Narrowing, stricture
-trophy
Nourishment, development
-algia, -dynia
Pain
-plegia
Paralysis
-centesis
Surgical puncture
-plasty
Surgical repair
-rrhaphy
Suture
-edema
Swelling
-clasis
To break; surgical fracture
-oma
Tumor
-scopy
Visual examination
-emesis
Vomiting
