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